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DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005
prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo plans to use fuel cells for its 3G phones. 'Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery', says Reuters."
Will that fuel also be compatible with the user? For internal use that is... ;-)
Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery.
A propane tank with a shoulder strap and you're good to go for 10 years.
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Methane two or three inches away from my nose. Another brilliant idea from DoCoMo.
With a phone the size of a Quarter, I shudder to think how hard it'll be to handle the ripcord on a fuel powered phone...
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...people holding up their cell phones at rock concerts?
"Methane two or three inches away from my nose. Another brilliant idea from DoCoMo."
**taps shoulder**
Uh, chief. That's not a cellphone.
That's just great! Now when I honk and politely wave (the international hand sign for "your # 1" of course) at the soccer Mom driving 40 mph on the freeway in front of me whilst applying her make-up and talking on her cell phone, she'll be able to immediately retalliate by tossing her handy fuel cell communication grenade at me through the sun roof on her 5 mpg SUV!
What's next? Kids running around with self pumping Super Soakers powered by napalm!!?!?
I tried to control myself...I swear!
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which is probably what you would go in for, too :)
...fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container...
"Hey buddy, can I bum a charge?"
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Cheap vodka as fuel? That's a terrible idea. If my cell phone had cheap vodka as its battery, I would never have a working cell phone.
Well, most carpenters and handymen I know of are too poor for that, and certainly the Carpenter of Nazareth would be similarly tapped out. Most have aging light trucks or panel vans. What would Jesus drive? Probably something like this. (No, I don't think Mike Watt is God, but I think they jam together on occasion.)
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... your phone doesn't pass emissions tests?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
....I'd like to report a fire...yes, it's my cellphone....please come quick.... *HAND BURNING*....quick, I said!!!!!.... *DIALTONE* ;-)
-psy
is a Soviet made nuclear reactor for my cell-phone. I dont care if I had have a truck for the battery, I would still own. "I'm sorry our conversion was interrupted, but I had a nuclear melt-down". It would sure beat whining about my Nokia having a stand-by time of 5 hours after one year of using it. Just get some nice uranium and keep the cellie on for 150.000 years.
Flammible fuel for mobile phones? Why not skip the middle man and develop a charging system where we rub a glass rod through a swath of cat's fur?