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Hand-Powered Hardware?

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-coming-apocalypse dept.

quiddity writes "Following the Goofy USB Devices post, one has to know what can be self-powered when the batteries all die. You can handcrank your Gameboy, recharge your cellphone or pda (even grandpa), wind up a webserver (with minions, a beowulf..), see in the dark, and project a movie. What else can we propel through the next blackout/apocalypse?" Some of these devices have have been on Slashdot before; what cool hand-powered tech hasn't been and should be?

2 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. As a Mac user..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have been using hand power to power safari to go to a multitude of gay porn sites....

    Mod me down if you must, but you know it to be true...a -1 means i'm correct....

    Ben
    www.macslash.org

  2. WARNING: GOATSE.CX MIRROR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The authors sig has a mirror of goatse.cx. Mod him down!