Pedal power laptop charger turns foot tapping into battery charge

Posted by John Brownlee, December 3, 2008 3:20 AM | permalink

This foldable laptop charger by Yogen Max translates nervous foot tapping into usable juice. Or it will, once it gets knocked out of the prototype phase. Fair enough, but someone should really figure out how to charge a laptop on snark already. It's the gadget blogger's dream product, our electronics charging equivalent to the perpetual motion machine.

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#1 posted by eigafan , December 3, 2008 5:06 AM

I was watching Judge Jeanine Pirro the other day and noticed a young male audience member sitting behind an attractive female plaintiff with his head conspicuously bobbing up and down. I was wondering if the judge would notice this strange behavior when I realized that he was probably nervously tapping his foot.

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#2 posted by 13strong , December 3, 2008 6:44 AM

This would be perfect for me. Caffeine + nine-to-five boredom means that I constantly jiggle my foot and leg around at work. It might as well be doing something useful.

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#3 posted by Garr , December 3, 2008 6:57 AM

Great approach!

But I fear I've recently gone from the "nervous-foot-tapper" to the "randomly-frequent-leg-shaker", so what I'd need would be something that probably utilizes some kind of gyro-something to generate energy through the rattling motion of my knees. Like those watches that re-wind themselves...

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#4 posted by tallpat , December 3, 2008 7:43 AM

Step 1. Add this to the bass pedal for the guitar hero drum kit.

Step 2. ???

Step 3. Profit!

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#5 posted by mabwiddershins , December 3, 2008 12:17 PM

This is a dream come true. I loved using a treadle sewing machine, and I've always thought a treadle computer would have long range health benefits. W00t!

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#6 posted by rAMPANTiDIOCY , December 3, 2008 1:55 PM

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#7 posted by SamSam , December 4, 2008 9:26 AM

This looks good and pretty simple -- on the assumption that all you're doing is changing a battery, and then you can connect your computer to the battery for a while. If this is supposed to actually plug in in tandem with your AC line, then it's some pretty fancy engineering.

Unfortunately, their website is ridiculous. There's no information on it, except for that fact that if we don't use this Google will suddenly add a huge dying battery to its page and your computer will crash, and once we use it the iTunes girl will appear...