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.

A flashlight with massage feature might sound weird, but who knows, maybe that’s just what you will need after having hand-cranked your way to a brighter environment.

Product Specifications:

• Bright white LED torch
• Portable massager
• Cranking to generate power, no external batteries needed
• Rechargeable power storage
• Unique spotlight system, good for short and middle range distance lighting
• Max. luminous flux: 9.5Lm
• Max. brightness: 120000 Mcd
• Output voltage: 5.6V
• Max. power output: >= 2.5W
• Switch lifetime: >= 100000 times
• Massager switch: high strength or low strength
• Lighting switch: high brightness or low brightness
• Massage time of high strength after 1 min. cranking: about 3 mins
• Massage time of low strength after 1 min. cranking: about 4 mins
• Lighting time of high brightness after fully charged: 2.4 hours
• Lighting time of high strength after fully charged: 40 mins
• Lighting time of high brightness after 1 min. cranking: 18 mins
• Lighting time of low brightness after 1 min. cranking: 30 mins
• Size: 139*56*67mm
• Weight: 170g

The Wind-Up LED Flashlight with Massager is available from gadget4all.com for $25.

(Via Coolest Gadgets and Pocket-lint)

Yes, it’s another week and yet another hand-cranked gizmo. This time a LED flashlight that features a 320-degree rotatable head and is waterproof up 9.9 meters (29.5 feet).

Features:

• Emergency lighting for car maintenance, outdoor activaties, etc
• 3 Light modes: 1-LED, 3-LED and Flashing 3-LED
• Waterproof under 9.9 meters water
• Hand Cranking for power generation
• 320-degree Twistable lighting head
• Length: 15 cm

Charging Info:

• Over 40 mins 3-LED lighting when cranking after 1 minute
• Over 5 hours 3-LED lighting when full charge
• About 50000 hours LED Lifetime

The Waterproof Twistable LED Dynamo Flashlight is yours for $22 from Gadget Brando.

Another week, another hand-cranked gizmo. Last week we had the wind-up remote control and this week it’s time to take a look at the PowerPlus Piranha wind-up shaver.

No more dead batteries when shaving: just wind it up and the internal dynamo generates energy to shave again. It also comes with an AC-charger, so you can charge it from the mains.

Here’s a video demonstration of the PowerPlus Piranha shaver:

Charging Info

• Shaving time after 1 minute winding: 1 to 2 minutes
• Trimmer time after 1 minute winding: 1 minute
• Shaving time fully charged: > 60 minutes
• Trimmer time fully charged: 45 minutes
• Charging time full charged: 8 hours

The PowerPlus Piranha Wind-Up Shaver is available from Nigel’s Eco Store, a webshop focusing on eco friendly products, for £24.99 (about $46 USD).

With the steadily growing stream of eco-friendly gadgets, it was only a matter of time before the good ol’ wind-up mechanism should find its way into the remote controls.

Wind Up Remote Control not only lets you survey and control your multimedia empire from the sofa armed with just one for all remote controls, this handy device is a completely battery free remote control so there are no batteries to replace, ever! Yes, all you have to do is wind up a built-in generator using the easy-to-use dial on the wind up remote control – 30 full turns is enough to provide a full charge, which should last you about a week.

It’s quick, easy and works with a huge variety of devices on hundreds of brands, including Samsung, Sony, Phillips, Panasonic – use remote codes to synch everything to your universal remote.

The Wind-Up Remote Control is available from Gizoo for £19.95 (about $39 USD).

These handy two-way walkie talkies are powered by a wind-up mechanism, making them environmentally friendly and saving you both the cost and hassle of buying batteries.

They can also be charged via a mains adaptor or USB and topped up using the wind-up crank to ensure optimum performance and the longest possible usage time.

Specification

• Talk range: up to 3km (depending on surroundings)
• Talk channel: 8 channels
• Backlight
• Low battery alert
• Input power：DC 6V
• Rechargeable battery life (Lithium,500mAH)
• With full power: 1.5hr talk-time, 8hr standby.
• After 1 minutes cranking: approximately 2 minutes talk-time, 10 minutes standby time
• Weight: 135g
• Size: 125×70×40mm

The Wind-Up Walkie Talkies will soon be available with a suggested retail price of £59.99 (about $117 USD) over at the Thumbs Up website.

Wind-up flashlights and keychain mini LED flashlights – both quite popular items. Now you can get both of these merged together as one product.

Features:

• The Smallest Dynamo for small piece of keychain flashlight
• Brightness LEDs
• Suggest: Switch off the LEDs and rotate the dynamo
• Dimension: 4 x 3 x 1.3 cm

The Mini Dynamo Keychain 2-LED Flashlight is available in black, blue or red and can purchased from the Gadget Brando website for $8.

This handy environmentally friendly wind-up charger is compatible with virtually all modern mobile phones and will even charge your iPod.

They have also managed to squeeze in a 3-LED flashlight for you.

This wind-up phone charger and torch is the end result of an extensive search for the best mini emergency phone charging gadget that we could find. A twist of the wrist means you’ll always be able to charge your mobile in an emergency and there’s a handy light whenever you need it to!

It’s small enough to keep in your glovebox, handbag or manbag, or even a jacket pocket if you’re out hiking or camping and it means that you’ll never be caught in a sticky situation with a flat mobile phone battery. Adaptors for virtually all modern mobile phones are included, and it can even charge iPods too.

The Thumbs Up website has the Wind-Up iPod and Phone Charger with Flashlight listed with a suggested retail price of £9.99 (about $19 USD).

Yes, it’s another example from the never ending stream of hand-cranked gadgets. This specific model features a radio with speaker, a 3-LED flashlight and a charger for your mobile phone or PDA.

Features:

• Streamline body Design, Novel, Beautiful, Comfortable Hand Feel, Useful, Essential goods for family life and traveling.
• Adopts mechanical device to generate electricity with precise construction and high working efficiency.
• Battery-less, Green Environmental protection.
• Adopt three extra-bright LED lights as light source, nature and smooth, durable. For more than ten thousand hours, high efficiency and power saving.
• Blink and Siren Functions. As the best helpful tool when meeting emergent situation on outdoor traveling and camping.
• Auto scan radio with loud and clear speaker, and easy operation.
• It is made with emergent lighting, charge Mobile Phone, Siren, and USB power source functions.
• Can charge Samsung, Siemens, SonyEricsson, Nokia, Motorola or other PDA Phone.
• After fully charged, the flashlight can work 6-8 hours continuously or hand winded for one minute, it can work over 10 minutes.
• Dimension: 146 x 63 x 44 mm
• Weight: 215g

The Hand-Winding Charger, Radio and Flashlight is available over at the GizFever.com website for $25.99.

Here we have yet another environmental friendly gadget that runs without any batteries whatsoever. This time it’s something to use for your bicycle.

The splash-proof Bike Dynamo Flashlight 3-LED ($10) is the type of product where you have to wind it up to generate power for the LEDs (yet again no info on how much cranking you need to do to get some light).

It’s 6.5cm long and can be removed from the holder and function as a handy flashlight. There are three different modes to choose from: 1-LED, 3-LED and Flashing 3-LED.

There’s no stopping the steady flow of hand-crank powered gadgets. And why would anyone want to stop that, it’s fun and good for the environment.

The product name of the Wind-Up Keychain LED Torch ($8) pretty much says what it’s all about. Unfortunately, there’s no information about how many minutes of power XX minutes of cranking will give you.

Anyway, it looks like handy little tool to bring along in the camping backpack.

When we saw the Orla Kiely radio, who would have thought it would only take another month until the next hand-crank powered radio with a built-in flashlight should show up?

The battery-free and eco-friendly Fun Radio-Nightlight ($30) comes with AM/FM radio, flashlight, and a light cap to create a soft bright nightlight.

1 minute of cranking will give you 20 minutes of radio or 40 minutes of light.

Available in three colors: Fresh Orange, Lime Green, and Pure White.

(Via Ubergizmo)

Yes, it’s time for yet another eco-friendly wind-up gadget that runs without the needs of using any batteries whatsoever (there is an USB charge option).

The Trevor Baylis Eco Media Player ($346) features an 1.8 inch LCD screen, 2 GB of internal memory and a SD Memory Card slot for external memory.

The Eco Media Player plays music, video, fm radio, and also functions as a torch, sound recorder, photo viewer, mobile phone charger, ebook viewer and data storage device, all in one palm sized package. What’s really clever though, is that it can be charged without being anywhere near a traditional power source, due to the windup mechanism situated on the back of the device, with one minute of winding giving up to 40 minutes of play time from the device.

Due to be released August 27. Pre-orders are open.

(Hippyshopper via Tech Digest)

The Orla Kiely Wind Up Radio & Torch ($40) is a modern AM/FM radio packaged in a cool looking plastic 70s design. No need to worry about running out of batteries – just grab the handle and wind your way back to the sound of the 70s. The radio also comes with a built-in flashlight.

(Via Retro To Go & Tech Digest)