http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Happens all the time with people saying the truth too soon.]]>Jan 10th 2010 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/

Also this thing looks pretty cool if it actually ever get used for anything.]]>Jan 11th 2010 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/its never too early to tell the truth. its not my fault people have a hard time handling it. a costly mistake to keep quiet, case in point this company. too bad nobody told them. :-/]]>Jan 11th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Everyone knows you roll the batteries in the remote to get it to work again. :D]]>Jan 10th 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
I think I'd rather just see a concept where i can charge it with a foot pedal that I attach the battery to. That way I can pump my foot like I'm sewing something to charge it while I talk.]]>Jan 10th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
So what you're saying is you want to carry a foot pedal around with you everywhere you go...

Why?]]>Jan 10th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
maybe he's a drummer?]]>Jan 11th 2010 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Solution: You put it on a metal rod / stick

You you hold both ends in each hand

You twirl like your life depends on it!!!!

FOR GOD'S SAKE MAN, YOU NEED TO CALL 911!!! TWIRL FASTER >_]]>Jan 10th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
If it's Apple, you won't look stupid, just cool.]]>Jan 10th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/God forbid you end up burning a calorie and forgo looking like PC guy, or Zune guy, or Steve Balmer...]]>Jan 10th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Careful not to hit yourself in the head.]]>Jan 10th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Soon on the twirl battery flyers:
"Twirl your battery with all your 21 fingers!"]]>Jan 10th 2010 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
You spin my head ride round ride round...]]>Jan 10th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Hula-Hoop !]]>Jan 10th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Why can't they just fill the hole and circuitry with more battery? that would almost double the capacity on that thing.
I know that twirling provides limitless juice, but 120 twirls? seriously?]]>Jan 10th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
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I think it would go together nicely with the twirling battery tech :D]]>Jan 10th 2010 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ZS8kcQwlc]]>Jan 10th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Anyway, this looks like discriminatory technology. It discriminates against us fat-fingered folks.]]>Jan 10th 2010 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
BTW, finished watching 12 Monkeys. It only got a cumulative 74 on Metacritic, thanks to some assholes at Time and elsewhere. Awesome movie.]]>Jan 10th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
A nice idea, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. You could stick kinetic capture devices everywhere, true, and it would seem like we are getting energy for nothing.... but the reality would be an increase in food sales (or we might we just get thinner!).]]>Jan 10th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
You spin me right round baby right round.]]>Jan 10th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
A good concept, I'm sure most of us have had to make a call send a text, just to find our phone battery has died. Plus you could keep on doing it, though the conversion would be rather, errrrmm, broken. That's for those of us who wouldn't need lots more battery life, otherwise just take a spare battery.

These should fit in current devices as well, but the battery would need to be ways replaceable (most phones) and the battery cover not flimsy.]]>Jan 10th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/In this particular design, rather than spinning freely around a fingertip, the device could be wound around the fingertip a few times, then left to uncoil internally, though other methods of inputting torque would seem to be far more usable, like a twist-top or lever.]]>Jan 10th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/Jan 10th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/
Secondly, this could be something useful for "emerging markets". i'd much rather carry another battery or a keep chargers handy or whatever instead of removing my battery, twirling it for a couple of minutes, replacing it, and then hoping i have enough power to make a short phone call. Of course, given the size, this is obviously not for smartphones, meaning i'd never use it anyways.]]>Jan 10th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/twirling-battery-concept-promises-a-quick-power-fix/The generator needs to start spinning and fast over 60 turns a second, once this point is reached, the generator can be slowed and still hold almost the same watts.
However, it is a pretty good jump start, so Ive tried to build it onto a ebike.

The Electric & Kinetic Vehicle
http://www.thekpv.com]]>Jan 10th 2010 12:54PM