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yankodesign.com - 10/5/2009

Crank Up Battery

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Re-chargeable batteries are no good when they run out of power and you have no electric point handy to tank them up again. Here’s where the concept of the Wind Up Battery steps in; re-charge these cells via the conventional battery charger OR use the hand-crank to wind up and source-up some ...

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blog.makezine.com - 10/6/2009

Wooden hand crank iPhone dock automata

— blog.makezine.com — This wooden hand crank iPhone dock automata by Murtaza Lakdawala is equal parts form and function. Turn... the crank and watch the gears mesh as the automata changes the iPhone's orientation from portrait to landscape. [via Gizmodo ]  ... (more) Wooden hand crank iPhone dock automata

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Wind-Up Battery
GeekAlerts — Designer Qian Jiang has come up with a cool and innovative concept for batteries. When your batteries are flat, simply wind them up and you’re gadgets are good to go agin. Head over to the Yanko Design website for more photos of the Wind-Up Battery. ...

Crank Up Battery By Qian Jiang
TechFresh, Consumer Electronics Guide — ... of work, the Crank Up Battery by Qian Jiang. This portable device acts as a power source for your rechargeable battery, in case you find yourself under a situation where’s there’s no available power source. Just simply put your rechargeable battery into this handy hand crank battery charger and start cranking. 5 minutes of cranking should give you about 45% of power. Definitely a brilliant concept! [YANKO] ...

Crank This Battery To Charge Up [Batteries]
Gizmodo — ... , the concept is actually rather brilliant since it wouldn't require an additional gadget to recharge your batteries and depending on how many recharges it would allow for, it might be a rather good deal too. Since this battery is still a concept, we're a bit skeptical about the claim that it could be fully charged in 20 minutes, but that would be fast enough for most of us. Those of us who haven't got the arm muscles of a noodle that is. [Yanko Design] ...

BATTERY INNOVATIONS: The winder upper
EXTRA-LAST — ... Sadly the battery is indeed a wind-up – it’s only a concept. It will not be available at Maplins in time for Christmas. More proper design nonsense probably made by an art student here. ...

Crank Up Some Lights This Time
Yanko Design — ... You do recollect the Crank Up Battery, right? Close on heels to that concept is this Eco – Twinkle Light. Just like how you would crank up the battery or simply sharpen a pencil, you rotate Twinkle’s handle to charge it up. Twinkling fairy lights with loads of imaginary fairy dust, sparkle up this gem of an idea! ...

Non Sexual Squeeze
Yanko Design — ... . So this time I figured I’d keep the obvious sexual innuendos out of the Perfect Squeeze. Orangin Citrus Squeezer! Straight and simple: this is a citrus squeezer that works more like a crank-me-up thang, similar to what you saw on a battery and ...