Twirling battery concept promises a quick power fix
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 10th 2010 5:35AM
posted January 10th 2010 5:35AM
We've seen plenty spinning, twirling, and wind-up gadgets from Sony and others, but nothing quite like this battery concept designed by Song Teaho and Hyejin Lee. While there's still a bit of work to be done with the actual "working" part, the concept is to simply let you twirl your cellphone battery around your finger a few times for a quick bit of juice to send a text or make a call -- the designers estimate 130 twirls will give you two minutes of talking time. Of course, the same idea could also be applied to batteries for other devices, although you'd probably have your work cut out for you trying to charge your laptop battery.
[Thanks, deej]
[Thanks, deej]
I'd like to attach a couple of these to the hub of my bicycle for the ride into work.
I'll never get to twirl. :( Damn you, Apple.
I used to do that to my cassettes. Remember those things? The plastic boxes with tape in them. Yeah. Stone age.
Somebody is going to be an idiot and turn this into a way to lose weight, Twirl your finger, burn calories! smh
This product could likely cause repetitive motion injuries from too much twirling
This is genius though this thing needs to be geared up so 1 rotation is geared up by 1:16 ratio :O
@xconan And the things you do to yourself, Isn't going to cause repetitive motion injuries?.... I really hope you're a dude lol.
@Drlau9
that's a good pun, NSFW comment...
Moronic art students should get a job already, go shuffle snow or work at mcdonalds or twirls things in the freaking porn industry.
I would like to see a idea where ya put one around your wrist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3C4AC908w
perhaps if you hooked it up to this puppy you can switch your battery charging into over drive
This thing has potential. Now all you need is to get rid of the big hole and make two smaller holes, thread through two elastic bands, fit handles at each end of the bands and like the spinning wheel (Child's Toy) you can spin that battery several thousand times in a matter of minute or two. Now you can do more and have a little fun in the process. I'll take two!