A dream come true? Mobile phones that charge themselves
French designers ModeLabs have developed three self-powered cellphone concepts. The designs rely on the inherent movement of their users to regenerate power and signal the possibility of using smaller batteries or even eliminating them entirely.
The company revealed the U-Turn (shown above), a business phone which can draw energy from opening and closing its keyboard, the Runaway, a wrist-mounted phone for athletes that takes advantage of the faster movement of exercise as its main power source, and the Yo-Yo, which is worn around the neck, and generates energy from the bounces and swings created by its owner and also draws power from built-in solar cells.
ModeLabs has not said whether its concepts will reach production but hopes to market its custom designs to cellphone makers soon.
