10 concept cellphones designed to be powered by self generated electricity

You have to make call, it’s urgent. And you see your cell phone battery has run out of charge. That’s very annoying. With no nearby cellphone charger you might feel like tearing hairs apart or kicking in your own rear badly. Don’t worry; many of us felt the same way several times in our life. But hold on. You can avoid the pity. With little effort you could build a solar powered mobile phone. The job is not much tricky and requires very few inexpensive resources. Once done you would only need to keep your mobile phone lying on open daylight and battery would start running again. With solar panel, installed on the back side of the phone, you won’t need to carry anything extra separately. So there is no chance of forgetting. Just carry the phone wherever you go. (more…)

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Top 10 self powered concept cellphones

A few years ago, mobile phones were considered to be a luxury product. But now it has almost become a must have article. Today, when the green concept is hovering over the human kind with an ever important ferocity, it is obvious that even mobile phone companies have tried to contribute their shares to the actualization of this concept. Given below are 10 such phones which are the proud claimants of this title.

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In-shoe device harvests energy created by walking

Although you may not be using a Get Smart-style shoe phone anytime soon, it is possible that your mobile phone may end up receiving its power from your shoes. University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor have developed an in-shoe system that harvests the energy generated by walking. Currently, this energy is lost as heat. With their technology, however, they claim that up to 20 watts of electricity could be generated, and stored in an incorporated rechargeable battery.

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OneBike is quite an innovation I tell you! It’s an electric bike that gets powered by kinetic energy. Basically when you set it on its cradle at home, the bike becomes a stationary fitness machine. So every time you pedal to keep fit, it harnesses energy from your motion and converts it to electric power. Tank up the juice and cruise the roads my friends! Awesome!

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