Green Cell Phone

Interesting idea. Now you need a hat with a holder so that your phone can get sun, except that would put the cellphone next to your head all of the time.

I applaud the concept, even if some of the details are dubious. From a functional standpoint, it would be nice to have solar charging for camping and boating, but I think it would be difficult to get sun on the PV panel, since phones get tucked away.

Tom

 

Cool idea. Should work fine if you're like me and use the phone on the way to- and coming home from- work. Obviously it wouldn't keep the charge while in a call but if there's enough sunlight between calls, it should work.

 

well that would be cool, except i use BT nearly all the time, so unless im in my car, i always have it in my pocket (saves me from leaving it somewhere...something that i did have to contend with more than a few times!!)

 

Bluetooth likely will be included since that is a very popular feature these days. Sure, BT will suck the battery down faster, but then again, if you're a chronic phone user, the solar cells aren't going to help you much anyway.

 

Very cool. I'll be watching for this to come out. Samsung is also coming out with a greener hi-def tv this year. They claim it uses up to 40% less energy than a hi-def lcd or plasma. Lcds and plasmas are energy hogs.

 

Too bad it wasn't powered by methane. I do know that when I make my "special recipe" chili, I could easily power my entire house just on my gas production

I'm pretty sure if my "special recipe" chili concoction fell into the hands of terrorists, our way of life would be over

 

My new 42" samsung flat lcd uses ~1/3 the power of the previous 30" crt it replaced,,, while on. The lcd uses less than 1 watt when off,,, compared to 35watts for the crt. So I don't believe that size for size that Lcd's are energy hogs per sey.

Icarus

 

I suppose the current crop of LCD tv's are energy hogs, compared to proposed developments. I just like not having to lug around what is - in essence - a giant vacuum tube

 

It could be worse. I have my big DLP TV with the high wattage projection bulb, the digital cable box that works like a toaster even in standby, a PS3 with its cell processor, the seven channel A/V amp, and last but not least the 1000 W subwoofer amplifier. I like winter because I can justify all of the heat.

Tom

 

Worse than blue tooth, is wifi / web browsing. My PDA's 400mhz processor can suck the life out of the mongo oversized battery in less than an hour . . . but in a way it's still green . . . because it recharges via solar. Only difference is, the solar is on my roof
Then there's the sun's deadly work on plastic. No such thing as non-photochemically reactive plastics. The up side is, who keeps a cel phone for more than 2 or 3 years now days? And those poor graveyard working slobs, they're s.o.l. ... can you tell that I hated working graveyard? End of tangent.

 

and whatever happened to that anyway??

there was a Japanese company developing microturbines that were to run on butane. they were to generate electricity and initial project design was for laptops and later cellphones. the advantage was that you would never be without power since you would recharge then as easily as refilling a butane lighter.

oh well, sounded too good to be true i guess

 

I knew it was too good to be true. Just with a few beers and my secret, sinister "secret recipe" chili concoction, I had a "perpetual motion" energy source

 

How about eliminating the battery altogether through the use of piezoelectric energy harvesting? These materials generate electricity through vibrations (and to a much lesser extent through pyroelectricity). Here's a link discussing recent research results as presented last week.

 

i used to have one of those "self winding" wrist watches when i was a kid....

now maybe that would work... just need to install one of those vibration proof hard drives, or better yet!! just get flash memory instead... uses waaay less power..

probably could do for under $10,000!!