UK: Kinetic energy alternative mobile phone charger

Any readers heading to Glastonbury Festival this year?

Well, then you’ll be one of the first to trial UK mobile phone service provider Orange’s new mobile phone recharge system.

Supposedly the idea is to capture the kinetic energy created by your dancing and use that to charge your mobile phone. Exact details are a little sketchy at this stage, but no doubt festival-goers will be up to the dance challenge during the festival.

It’s definitely not the first time Orange (as Glastonbury sponsors) have come up with an eco-friendly way to charge your mobile phone during the festival. Here’s the previous year’s efforts, as reported by Pocket-lint:

The partnership began in 2000 with Orange’s Mobile Charging Truck in 2000, which could simultaneously charge 50 phones – last year 65,000 festival goers took advantage of Orange’s juice up opportunities.

And following on from that, the Orange Mobile Wind Charger – the UK’s first wind-powered phone charger designed as a prototype to attach to the top of your tent.

Very eco-responsible thinking.

Let’s just hope you’re a strong dancer, ey?! Or else you might need to visit the happy herbs stand for some extra energy?

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