Feb 17 2009Green Palm: LG Releasing Solar Cell Phone
LG is planning on dropping a solar-powered cell phone on the mobile communications market so you'll no longer need a wall charger to power your communication device. You just need a sunny park bench, a loaf of bread, and a flock of trained pigeons. BAM -- did my level of greenness just make your head explode? No? Okay, try this one on for size -- you tie a message to a kite, and fly it to whoever you want to communicate with. Then they follow the string back to you and you have a good 'ol face to face. You know, like they used to do in the olden days before Western Union invented horses. LG claims ten minutes in the sun will net you a three minute call. But not a butterfly! I'm not high, you're high!
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Reader Comments
1. nicole - February 17, 2009 1:18 PM
First
2. Me - February 17, 2009 1:20 PM
Hmmmm... i think the kite idea would be so much more stylish...
3. rancor - February 17, 2009 1:23 PM
erm solar power just isn't quite up to par yet for this kind of technology, Now get me a cell phone that charges from radio frequencies and we can talk
4. LIOS - February 17, 2009 1:24 PM
TOP 5, where can i get one of those?
5. Repentant Sinner - February 17, 2009 1:27 PM
Now even hippies can get cancer. Thanks LG!
6. Pew³ - February 17, 2009 1:35 PM
If the charge gets too low can I still plug it into my coal burning wall outlet? Or do I have to drive it around in the sunlight on the roof of my Hummer?
7. Geekologie reader - February 17, 2009 1:44 PM
the kites would be solar powered, yes?
8. INTJ - February 17, 2009 1:49 PM
I'm going to invest in sun lamps
9. gizmoduck - February 17, 2009 1:52 PM
is there a bathroom around here or do i have to shit in a plant?
10. Pat - February 17, 2009 1:59 PM
I'm all about green technology, but a 10-minute charge for a three-minute call doesn't sound particularly efficient. I'm with @3 on this one.
11. Ginormagantuan - February 17, 2009 1:59 PM
and if you're like me and end up having to move back to the North West where it seems we get no damn sunlight.......
12. gizmoduck - February 17, 2009 2:13 PM
shiiiiiiiiiiit
13. Ocelot - February 17, 2009 2:14 PM
Yeah, I agree, this is just not efficient. You get a text, "Call me," and you text back, "Ok give me ten minutes. And you better make it quick."
14. Tricky Ricky - February 17, 2009 2:18 PM
Unbelievable, not only do you get brain cancer from the cell phone, but now skin cancer as well.... while re-charging the phone..
15. Pew³ - February 17, 2009 2:35 PM
BAHAHAHA! Stupid FÜCKING idiot! Red-shirted ASS! You guys think you're so fÜcking cool, it makes me sick! "Oh, let's go make fun of the vegans, and their crazy lifestyle!" We're not hurting anyone! Go eat a hamburger and choke on a cow dick!
16. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 17, 2009 2:35 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
Eh, not for everyday use...
Worthy of going into your Zombie/Robot/Nuke Apocolypse kit though...
17. naas - February 17, 2009 2:38 PM
Finally some technology
18. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 17, 2009 2:38 PM
11- Twilight vampire? You are aren't you? OMG... watch out for fangirls.
19. naas - February 17, 2009 2:40 PM
Grandma's boy was great @15
20. Pew³ - February 17, 2009 2:44 PM
@19@15was replying@9!
Yes great!
Hey, nass, any chance I can crash on your couch tonight?
21. Lowlands - February 17, 2009 2:57 PM
Great phones when there isn't a wall charger right away available.3 minutes for a phone conversation is enough for me and i don't expect to be called every ten minutes.
22. naas - February 17, 2009 2:59 PM
@20 Not after what happened last time, I can't believe you came on my mom.
23. Imurderanimals - February 17, 2009 3:36 PM
Vegans and hippies are so pointless and gay. For everyone of you that devote your lives to not eating animals, there are 10 of me that do it constantly. hell, I'm eating a $5 footlong with three different animals in it right now! If i didn't live in New York City I'd go hunting right now just to spite you all.
24. blp - February 17, 2009 3:43 PM
It's not bad if you consider a 3 minute call is the power consumption equivalent of 30 minutes mp3 playing.
25. Daisy - February 17, 2009 6:55 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was driving his taxicab minding his own business, and a half naked chick falls through the roof. Max runs from the police, and loses whats left of his license, but eventually saves the world, no thanks to Detecive Carter who was a major pussy.
26. BG - February 18, 2009 5:58 AM
First everything had to have an LCD, then everything had to have at least 100 keys. Now everything has to have a solar cell -- nevermind if it doesn't make sense, takes up room that could have been devoted to some feature that is actually useful, etc.
How about devices that do what they're supposed to do and don't have to be thrown away the day after purchase. Isn't that 'green'?
Another trend I'd like to see: not charging people extra green for being 'green'. The 'green' movement would have a lot more credibility if it were not so obviously just another way to collect pieces of green paper.
Q: Why do all these posts have the same comments?
27. save energy - February 18, 2009 9:51 AM
It's about time. I can't believe it's taken them so long to come up with this
28. Panthro - February 18, 2009 10:15 AM
Panthro wishes his penis were solar powered. Perhaps then it would work. I'll just have to settle for NUNCHUCKING THE SHIT OUTTA Y'ALL!!!
29. donnie - February 18, 2009 4:52 PM
"I'm not high, you're high!"
You're right about that :)
30. anwii - February 20, 2009 3:35 AM
haha yes send a kite in the next storm... really fun with next flash... XD
31. annomous - October 14, 2009 3:16 PM
WOW! That phone is amazing - i'm an eco warrior and have been waiting for something like this to come out for AGES! I really love it!!!! Where can i get one from? XD