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Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire

Posted by samzenpus on from the burn-it-up dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "If you love to go on camping trips and want to charge your mobile phone, tablet or even camera there is a new solution on the way which can do that anywhere day or night and all you need to do is light a little fire and have a few drops of water. The FlameStower efficiently captures excess heat from a gas burner or campfire to charge almost any USB-powered device: cell phones, GPS units and even cameras by using the thermal deferential between the fire and water and the whole thing is already collecting money on Kickstarter (and if you are really handy you can even make a DIY version yourself)."

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  1. Re:BioLite by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    biolite's store doesn't work even with scripts enabled (I don't permit google analytics, and a lot of people have designed their sites to fail if you do that, so fuck them sideways) and TFA isn't loading so I guess I won't bother to support either of these incompetents.

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  2. You can charge with fire today by starburst · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can purchase a BioLite camping stove that has USB charging today. We have one at our office for emergency off the grid charging. In our test we recharged an iPad and and iPhone.

  3. originality fail by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    www.thepowerpot.com
    It may cost more ($149) but it provides twice the power and is already commercially available.

    I'm sure there are more around, but that was the first one google found.