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Meditating on Cell Phone Power
From Industrial Designer Clara Zamboni from the University of Buenos Aires comes this handheld meditation power converter. Imagine Bruce Lee, trapped in the three-door-room after his nun-chuck fight on the island, just sitting there, meditating on his next move. He could have totally been charging his cellphone while he was just chillin! Twiddling thumb.
Using Nonogenerators, (link kindly provided by Clara Zamboni*), this device called Lotus is able to convert the energy you create by spinning its thumb pad into energy your cell phone can use as power. Simple and nice, naturally shaped to the contour of your hand, made to fit simply into your life.
*For all you design submitting peoples out there, it is always very helpful to explain the technologies you use in your concepts like this- a link to a credible source. This way the people who already know what it is can skip, and the people who do not can learn! Thank you Clara for being extra helpful!
Designer: Clara Zamboni
17 Comments »
tudza says
Judging from the mechanical chargers I’ve used for radios and flashlights, you are *not* going to get a decent charge out of this thing before your thumb stops working forever.
Ja says
Fear that the Carpal tunnel syndrome or CTS may be worsen as have to keep turning it with your thumb .
Nicholas Sherlock says
Please do not encourage designers to pick up whatever tech buzzwords they heard on the radio this morning and use it to justify their crappy designs. It doesn’t matter what kind of generator you use, you can only get out as much energy as you put in to it (and typically dramatically more). There’s no way you’ll be able to comfortably produce enough power to charge your cellphone with your thumb like that.
Nicholas Sherlock says
(Sorry, dramatically *less* not more)
Confucius says
Its a nice shape and would be OK left as a meditation device. to do nothing. But (haha) as tudza pointed out, your thumb will die before you phone comes back to life (such dramatic objects cellphones). Do this: grab your nearest similar shaped object, yes your mouse is good. And proceed to rub it in a circular motion as you would with this thing. mmm sore ain’t it.
Kay says
crappy designs?? I love the design and the idea
Jenni says
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Jenni
M.S.W. says
I believe the designer would have been better assisted to include the following article instead of the one currently listed in the reviewer’s statement.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114403.htm
M.S.W. says
I believe the designer would have been better assisted to include the following article instead of the one currently listed in the reviewer’s statement.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114403.htm
Sorry, should have added good post! Waiting on your next one!
Ross M. W. Bennetts says
It should also contain some sort of counting mechanism so that it can be used to count mantra recitations. Perhaps also a quiet bell or click every 108 rotations.
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