As well as bringing you news on smartphones and tablets we also like
to bring readers details of new innovative gadgets and accessories for
the mobile industry. We often bring you news about Kickstarter projects
where people can pitch their ideas for new products and raise funding
to put them into production. Today we have some information about one
of the most innovative Kickstarter ideas we’ve seen so far, the Epiphany
onE Puck coaster, a device that will be able to charge your smartphone.
This idea is strictly from the “why didn’t anyone think of that before” school of thought as it seems so simple and yet such a clever concept. The onE Puck coaster from Epiphany Labs can use “heat disparities” from either hot or cold drinks to charge up your phone or other device. The user simply places their beverage on the coaster, a cold drink on the blue side or hot drink on the red side, plugs their smartphone into the coaster and hey presto! No other wires or batteries are necessary, instead the heat disparities are turned into a charging engine using a compact stirling engine.
The Epiphany onE Puck coaster will charge any Android phone, iPhone
or iPod or other device that uses a USB charger drawing 1000 mA or less,
so it cannot be used to charge laptops or tablets. Nevertheless we
think this is a great idea, stunning in its seeming simplicity and
something that many people would make use of. Charging speed varies
according to the temperature of the beverage but under the optimum
conditions it can charge at usual speeds.
You can find more about this idea at the source link below. At the
time of writing it has received funding of $86,460 from 774 backers from
a required total of $100,000 on Kickstarter
and there’s still 48 days to go so it looks as though it will easily
pass its funding requirements. You can also view a video about the
project below this story if you want to find out more.
We’d like to know what you think of this Kickstarter project? Is this
something that you envisage will be widely used in the future? Maybe
you’ll become a backer yourself? Why not send your comments to let us
know.
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