Comments on: Charge Your Mobile Phone by Riding Your Bike

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:26:03 +0000

Have look at the above website!

We have developed a pv technque that allows anyone to make a solar charger for a dollar or two!
Charge it anywhere with no effort anywhere!

Graham

By: Gerald Shuma

Gerald Shuma — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:11:18 +0000

In Africa, rural China and Latin America, we can actually put this in, hook it up and charge this device while we are riding a bike.â€ MyAfricaToday

By: lawrence

lawrence — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:22:33 +0000

ah, Hash! i should have checked here before posting about this same thing today on ‘the african uptimist’. oh well, optimistic minds think alike! i had the same question about cost, and also cited some of the more interesting comments about the engineering and the deployment approach. As you rightly point out, this has “rural cellphone-user in Africa” written all over it–if the price is right. cheers.

By: Ntwiga

Ntwiga — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:10:13 +0000

Interesting find Hash. I found this piece about how the Chinese Government is now mandating that all phones manufactured in China charge via a standard mini-USB port. I guess a ton of other devices will be going this route soon. I hate having to carry one adapter for my phone, another for my camera, another for my cell ad nauseam. When I let my mind wander on the possibilities, I have to wonder if we are not too far away from a mash up where kids can have their OLPC's "reverse-charged" via USB using devices like this pedal-powered one . . . - Steve