Monday, January 12, 2009

Wireless Renewable Energy Device Charger

OK, the title of this post may be a little misleading but a whole bunch of funky devices are being shown off at this year's CES including a rather gaudy but highly useful wind/solar USB charger and Powermat's wireless charging mat.

The wind/solar charger looks a bit like a personal fan but actually works the other way around and if it's not windy enough you've got the rather large solar panel on the front (weird place for it?). This made me think of putting something like this on your bike or even your car to capture the wind as you pedal/drive... but then again you could probably just put one of those wheel things on the rim like the old fashioned bike head lights.

The second item, the Powermat, is a wireless charging technology where you just place your device on the mat and magically it starts charging up. There's a video in the link above if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Now, the point of this post is that we need some convergence here. If we could get the renewable energy into a wireless form factor we'd be laughing. Any takers?

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