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June 24, 2008 6:25 PM PDT
Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing
Thanks to a new gizmo, you just need to face the music and dance.
Mobile phone operator Orange said on Tuesday that it had teamed up with GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone.
The portable kinetic energy chargers will be given a test run at this year's Glastonbury Festival, the world's biggest greenfield music and arts celebration that begins on a farm in Somerset, England, on Friday.
Orange said the prototype chargers weigh the same as a phone and are about the size of a pack of cards.
Attached to the user's arm, they employ a system of weights and magnets that provide an electric current to completely charge a storage battery. This can then later be used to recharge the phone.
"We wanted to create a fun, engaging, and interactive product which would encourage users to have a laugh while charging their mobile phone and at the same time test out a new energy-efficient prototype," said Hattie Magee, head of partnerships at Orange UK.
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