How many times have you been out
and about when your cellphone dies, and there you are without a spare battery, disposable battery, travel charger, car
charger, solar charger, or Eton phone-charging emergency
radio? Well if Indian grad student NV Satyanarayana has his way, we'll soon have yet another charging device to
leave at home when we need it most, the Micro
Windmill Mobile Charger. This tiny collection of tubines converts wasted wind into useful talk time (a la certain Japanese
taxis) with blades just 5-centimeters long, and is also said to be capable of charging laptops, portable game
consoles, and DAPs. So far the MWMC is still in the development stage, but if you start seeing an unusual number of
people walking around wearing propeller beanies with cables snaking down their faces, you'll know that this device has
made it stateside.