January 16, 2010 Elisabeth's flashlight
I thought this was one of the coolest things I saw today. The light isn't very bright though, and to get any light requires quite a bit of manual labor. This is perhaps cooler than the manual cell phone recharger that my brother bought during the epic power outage of '06!
Is that a crank-up flashlight? Yeah, pretty cool. What beats it is a crank-up laptop (OLPC), and what could be much more useful is a crank-up battery recharger.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a crank-up. It is a for shaking vigorously for a spot of light.
ReplyDeletecrank-up laptop? Wouldn't you have to crank for five centuries for a good amount of time? But I like the idea.