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October 5, 2009 9 Comments

Wind-Up Battery

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.

Wind-Up Battery

Head over to the Yanko Design website for more photos of the Wind-Up Battery.

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9 Responses to “Wind-Up Battery”

  1. koko Reply October 7, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    I love this idea, but really, how many cranks would it take get any decent charge into these batteries?

  2. Lee Reply December 8, 2009 at 10:21 am

    I am stocking up on these for the end of days.

  3. John Reply July 20, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    Shouldn’t the colors be reversed? Green for full battery, red for charging?

  4. Tim Reply October 12, 2010 at 1:46 am

    Hey, I searched for this web page on Bing and just wanted to say thank you for the fantastic read. I would need to concur with it, thanks once more!

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