Wednesday, July 30, 2008

An idea


For those who are not familiar with the object in the picture – it is a Dynamo fitted to a bicycle, generates electricity while cycling. It revolutionized the cycling experience in the last century. I do not see this in today’s cycles.

I was thinking about another idea –
Health conscious current generation regularly exercises in house and gyms. If this device is attached to the exercise cycles (the stationary ones) or treadmills, one can get one’s mobile handset (or even iPod) charged while exercising. I could visualize – instead of referring to “amount of calories burnt”, people will talk about “number of mobiles charged”.

Considering the grim future of our environment and fossil fuel reserves, this small idea can find more applications – a little imagination can help.

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