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First Wind-up Phone Charger Review
Jonathan Bennett writes "Here's the first actual review (as opposed to speculation) of Motorola's FreeCharge hand-operated mobile phone charger. Only works with Motorola phones for now, but other devices on the way.
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For years, I've been excercizing for this product, once, twice, or sometimes even three times a day. At last all that hard work and repetitive motion will pay off.
And if I can get one of those phones that can view color photos, I might be able to continue excercizing after I've charged it.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
I hadn't heard of this product before, but I'm excited. Imagine what it'll be like when these devices become commonplace...you'll get up in the morning and grind and brew coffee by hand. Wind up your radio to hear the news as you crank up the microwave for some oatmeal. Then crank your car and drive to work, where you spend all day in front of a computer, pedalling a stationary bike.
We will all be quite muscular!
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Her: Hello?
Me: *pant* *pant* *pant*
Her: Ew! Pervert! *click*
Me: *pant* Wait! *pant* Damnit!
Maybe this isn't a good thing...
"Son, we need to have a little talk. Has your mother told you anything about the Birds and the Bees?..."
This little devices gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Crank Call"
The wages of sin are unreported and back taxes are hell to pay.
Now all they have to do is offer an electronic device that does the winding for you...
-- Adam
This cranking is tiring! Now if I hooked up a motor to the crank, powered by a small battery, I could save a lot of work!
"This is nothing more than a dynamo flashlight or disaster radio without the bulb or radio."
What kind of long distance rates are you getting with your dynamo flashlight?
Now we'll all know that the in-duh-vidual having the wild converstaion is on a hands free cell phone call because they are crancking for their life.... and looking like they are having a conversation with their "inner" self.
NOTE: Your not that important, and nobody want to hear it.
This is not the sig line you are looking for... -- Old Jedi Sig Line Trick
What kind of long distance rates are you getting with your dynamo flashlight?
Free, if you know Morse Code.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
let's say the extra energy lost requires you to eat an extra hamburger.
Now this hamburger needs to be heated up. In a place where they need to have light. And toilets. And wireless headsets. And lighted billboards that can be electronically updated. But first of all a cow had to be created. And fed. In a place with electric fences. And a sewer system. And grass that had to be mowed by a tractor that had to be created somewhere in Pennsylvania. And then the cow had to be hollered over to the slaughterhouse in a big truck made in Detroit. And the truck would do about a mile to the gallon. And require new tires every 6 months. And the slaughterhouse would have to buy new Magnum 45s every year to shoot the lead bullets in the cow's brain. And all those people that where so busy making your hamburger now also lost energy and could use a hamburger themselves.
And you call THIS good for the environment?!
The only problem is that if you wind it to get standby back, if someone calls you are likely to only have a minute or so of talking.
Could be a potential problem when I call up those automated voice mail hell^Hp trees that force me to navigate <wind>through the <wind>duration of every inappropriate <wind>branch and <wind>twig until I get to a nice operator <wind>leaf that puts me into a queue to talk to a real person.
"Thank you for calling $CORP. <wind>Your call is important to us. All of our operators are busy assisting other customers. Please <wind> continue to stay on the line...<music> ... <wind> <product_advertisement> ....<wind> ..."
(I can see carpal tunnel setting in from winding...)
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