Comments for Kyocera's Flexible, Kinetic-Powered Phone at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Mon, 20 May 2013 13:39:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-35462 This is an awesome idea.. using magnets- since recent developments- to magnify the energy produced could posssibly create enough energy. I think it could work. Dont give up- we need more clean ways to create and store and use energy even if its small like a cell phone or iPod or big like a speed bump! - ... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:27:13 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-28573 interesting design! i like - Fred Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:59:47 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-27877 Add a hands-free headset....and a more plausible power source than nano piezo generators (kinetic watches use proven technology - shake it!). Of course, the price imposed by such new technologies will kill it outright. The concept is righton though.... - bhairav Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:40:41 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26240 make it work and get it on the market! and please send me one... though i dont have a lot of money. If it comes with a lifetime guarantee and no built-in-obscelesence (however you spell that) then id gladly save the money up! fiddling with it... id probably play with it a lot of the time like you would a stress ball or powerball... id be interested to know if this would add charge too, (spinning it around in your hand, playing catch with it...) or if you can only charge it up by pressing the buttons? and what, prey tell, do these special now-you-see-me-now-you-dont buttons look like?? x+x-x - sam Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:34:12 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26191 The flexible screen seems a more important and possibly even cooler feature than the piezo power feature. The nano piezoelectric thing may or may not work out but some better power source for this scale applications will settle out eventually. I'm much more jazzed about the possibility of folding out a larger flatscreen from a smaller, wallet-sized package. If they can make it so it doesn't show the creases, as in the picture in the article, that would be something! - Ghonadz Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:08:53 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26107 It doesn't use it's own energy to power itself. It translates the users' energy into power, creating an atmosphere of attachment and dependency. Much like we birth and nurture our spawn, we could soon nurture the tools we use. Though this phone seems a little outlandish and will probably end up being implemented in a different tool altogether, I would love to get my hands on it. The problem I see with this concept is that its use is completely dependent on how much we want to play with it. It is expected nowadays that all phones have cameras and plenty of storage space for texting and media. With such a small power source, there's not much we could fit into the small package. - nick Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:43:45 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26097 Sounds like a perpetual motion machine. A phone which powers itself by reusing the energy it releases! Even when kinetic energy is added, I doubt whether this would be able to generate enough power to prevent the need of an other type of recharging (like solar or grid). Let's hope they succeed (and make it very much affordable to all celphone users)! - frisbee Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:10:41 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26093 Piezo's that fit inside a cellphone, nano or otherwise, will never generate enough energy to run it. Nice dream, though. - cke Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:32:41 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26092 Thing is, I would pay a _lot_ for this phone. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen. So yeah, maybe it's a concept idea, and it would be expensive to manufacture, but there are people out there who would still buy it, unless it was just insanely expensive. - Carl Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:56:29 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/human-powered/2690#comment-26090 I love concept devices. They're like reading those "Look at the world of tomorrow" features in populistic science magazines. Of course, they fail to mention that the "tomorrow" they're talking about is located in some parallel dimension we'll never meet. Same with concept phones as cars and all sorts of other things. It would have been an awesome phone, were it not for the fact that they'll never implement any of these features in a way that works properly, at least not for another many many years. - Magnulus Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:18:37 +0100