[Pearls Before Swine]

Power the micro-windmill from the speaker’s voice!

[Alex Murphy]

Researchers from Texas have developed a miniscule ‘micro-windmill’ that is just 1.8mm wide and can transform wind energy into electricity. The team behind the design claim hundreds of the nickel devices could be fitted to a phone case, for example, and users could charge their phone simply by waving it in the air.

[smokingfrog]

http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2014/01/microwindmill-rao-chiao.php

[Doogle]

"...a six pack and a dozen hard boiled eggs, you could mount a mini fan to my butt and I could power dragster"

[LeoWindhorse]

someone should develop a little windwill charger that fits on the outside of a vehicle and spins , delivering charge , whenever the vehicle is being driven , recharging whatever is connected to it , within the vehicle

[Farmer Dean]

Maybe the beanie with propeller on top will come back into fashion?Would look real good on the pajama-boy types.

[G Larry]

Hood ornament?

[Hoodat]

Why not two tin cans and some string?

[Paladin2]

So now one can turn on one’s phone by blowing it?

[tbw2]

The Yellow Jacket, a cell phone case that doubles as a stun gun, is much cooler.

[hecticskeptic]

I was actually thinking of getting a decent hand crank charger for those times when trekking and hunting in back country for a few days at a time. Anyone have any good recommendations on one?

[a fool in paradise]

The team behind the design claim hundreds of the nickel devices could be fitted to a phone case, for example, and users could charge their phone simply by waving it in the air

This isn't going to turn out well.

#ANNOYINGELECTRONICPACIFIER

[Nifster]

No tech info so it is non meaningful…Best question is HOW UCH taxpayer went into this boondoggle??

[Disambiguator]

We should make slightly larger versions of these, and mount them to the heads of every Democrat politician in office. All the hot air they emanate would keep them spinning all day long! Energy crisis solved.

[GingisK]

How about using those beanie hats with the windmill?

[bmwcyle]

Holding it out of the window driving down the road?

[OldNewYork]

Sounds interesting, like the piezo-electric (?) chargers on flashlights - no need for batteries.

[esoxmagnum]

How many lawsuits will follow from people hearing a “buzzing noise” by being within a mile of the little wind turbine?

[ApplegateRanch]

Imagine that they can be cheaply made

Paging Sir Paul McCartney; Sir Paul, please pick up the white phone!

[Spartan302]

When are they going to have a surgically implanted model like in Total Rekall 2?