Aug 20 2007Wind Powered Phone Charger
Orange, a U.K. based telecommunications firm is dropping the Orange Mobile Wind Charger. It, um, charges your cell phone with the power of the wind! Amazing. Reminds me of that time I developed a perpetual motion machine, the wind powered windmill. Brilliant really. I'm not totally sold yet, but maybe you are. Are you a hippie? Do you smell like patchouli? If so, get one of these bad boys, strap it to the basket on the front of your bike, and you'll be the talk of the commune. You may even get lucky with a chick that doesn't shave her legs or armpits. Go you!
Wind Powered Phone Charger [PC World]
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Reader Comments
1. uruwai - August 20, 2007 1:45 PM
Another first!
IM ON FIRE!!!!
2. uruwai - August 20, 2007 1:52 PM
Actually this is not such a bad idea.
Perhaps too good to be geekologie material.
3. Smartass - August 20, 2007 2:09 PM
I found your characterization of hippies to be hurtful and gross violation of the interweb. I pretty sure the entire incident caused me in excess of 8 million dollars worth of mental anguish.
4. Buster Bluth - August 20, 2007 2:26 PM
This would make an ideal gift for mother as she lost her phone charger and keeps stealing mine. I'd like to see her lose something that big, and she could power it with her mouth!
5. pork musket - August 20, 2007 2:29 PM
At long last, something to harness the energy of my excessive flatulence
6. mickey mouse - August 20, 2007 7:59 PM
Uh, why are they "dropping it"?
7. first timer - August 21, 2007 1:54 AM
This is freaking great. Look, I don't live in a hippie commune. I only ride my bike to work occasionally. But I do end up in places (such as the great outdoors---been there, anyone?), where having this would be great.
And just in general, being able to charge it from anywhere would be incredibly convenient.
This is genius and I'm buying it the next time I'm in London.
8. Buster Bluth's Mother - August 21, 2007 3:07 AM
how dare you talk about your mother that way! go to your room!
yeah...not much sleep lately. too busy with the pool boy...
9. Outdoor geekophile - August 21, 2007 9:58 AM
So basically we're celebrating this middle-century throwback with his little windmill and asking ourselves why we don't reject technology by plugging our CELL-PHONES into a wind generator.
And if you're going to use this in the great outdoors when you're camping, pray you're near a tower.
Hippies are preachy bums. Take a shower.
10. Dan - February 19, 2009 5:43 PM
Um...it's a great idea, but when are you every going to use it? If yo live in the city it is pointless
11. jawad ali - June 25, 2009 4:08 AM
hi i found ur idea the best,
sir i have s design for the lwo speed wind tubine as well.
i am going to frwrd u my presntation, this turbine will work on two foctors
1 perpetual push 2 wind energy
its efficiency graph is will at very low wind speed, and at intermediat its efficiency is less,
will at high speed it behave as normal turbine and bocome a rigid body,
we designed it just for very low wind speed areas;
we need ur comments, and can u help us doing thsi?
oh shit i cant paste my prsntation here, pls email me then i shall forwrd u that
jawadali616@yahoo.com