motion to energy

The Gigaom blog reports that a Boise company M2E Power will start selling a mobile phone charger “…that can convert six hours of everyday movement…into one hour of talk time..”

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The new technology is called “motion-harvesting” and should be able to convert walking, shopping and commuting time into talk time.

How’s this for an idea? A wi-fi smartphone with motion-harvesting, and fring. Maybe the lowest cost of operation phone setup of all!!