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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?

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  1. Oh lord... by MiniHarryC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    :: Awaiting bevy of masturbation jokes ::

  2. Hand-powered internet by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you need a web server in the middle of nowhere, there's always the uCdynamo!

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Hand-cranked web server? by stvangel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, I really wanna see that. Can you imagine how much he'll have to crank his ass off when he gets slashdotted? On the other hand, we could build a great weight-loss / fitness regimen into something like this. You can KEEP your Herbalife.

  4. Re:Someone ought to patent this idea! by stvangel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's called a Moped.

    Or you could always settle for something even more radical and buy a bicycle.