Llamadassa has put together a Bicycle Powered Mobile Phone Center. The whole point of this is providing power for charging phone to people who don’t have ready access to electric grid. This is a LOT of people and many of them want and need to communicate wirelessly. This may not be the only approach and maybe not high tech; but it is a smart answer to an important problem. Electricity is generated as the person is traveling to his destination, if the battery runs low at the destination he can drop the kick stand and start cycling in place. The product has been assembled for the developing world with parts used that could be easily found. To generate the electricity they used an old car alternator that sends the electricity generated to a car battery. The electricity stored in the battery is accessed by an old computer UPS to convert the electricity to 110V.
Via: HackedGadgets
