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    Image of nathanhornby000001 nathanhornby000001
    10/06/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Yup; its shockingly poor design to use red as a full indicator ... SHOCKINGLY bad. The guys who designed this need to go back to school.

    It's design like this that causes half the usability problems when it comes to product design :/
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/06/09

    @nathanhornby000001: I turned this thing for two days and it is still on empty - must be broken.

    Let's hope these guys don't work on the Mercedes with the auto-stop at traffic lights, what with their 'red means go' mindset and all.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    10/06/09

    @nathanhornby000001: That and the dollar store build quality. Most of these will be sporting broken handles inside of a week.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    10/06/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Shouldn't it be Red to indicate low/no charge, green to say your done, and maybe orange while you are charging?
    Just cos thats kinda how things have been for ages, green = go, good, etc
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    10/06/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Do they have crankable lappies yet? Other than the olpc of course.
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    Image of ithyphallus, bonks morrigan ithyphallus, bonks morrigan
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    IIRC, we live in a world of thermodynamics. what irks me is that you're not making energy, you're really just transfering your own mechanical energy into that battery. you "burn" calories to crank dat battery and you replace that energy with food!

    -prof. phallus
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    Image of SQLGuru SQLGuru
    10/06/09

    @ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat: But most of us can afford to burn a few extra calories to make a little electricity.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    What this needs is a battery powered winder! LOL

    Seriously this is brilliant. I have a bike light that cranks, 30 seconds will get me about 10 - 15 minutes of useful light. These might not be practical for everyday use, but they would be perfect for survival/camping/military uses.

    And while I am at it, where is my crank powered cell?
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    Image of CKInternational98 CKInternational98
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Next concept: Kinetically charged batteries! If you can put a whole crank system on the battery, you could just as easily put some sort of kinetic energy charger inside.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Most of these concepts are like my 9th grade notebook doodle "inventions" except with better renders.
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    Image of spectralveil spectralveil
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    I think the designer got a bit mixed up...
    Red for charged, green for low power,
    Put a lot of thought into this one didn't they
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    That's an awesome idea. I'd buy one simply for my wireless mouse.
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    10/05/09

    In reply to Crank This Battery To Charge Up
    Fully charged in 20 minutes of continuous cranking? That seems a bit tedious... but I excuse it for the fact that it's attractive and surprisingly practical for situations where you need batteries and can't readily buy new ones or charge more traditional rechargeable AAs.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    11/27/08

    In reply to HydroStar SUB Flashlight With Dynamo-Powered LEDs, Lasers Lightning Review
    Was I the only one who had the phrase "IT'S ALIVE!!" run through my head when the iPod was connected?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/27/08

    In reply to HydroStar SUB Flashlight With Dynamo-Powered LEDs, Lasers Lightning Review
    This seems extremely cool.


    Good gadget gift...golly.


    Stop me before I alliterate again!

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