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Ride your bike, charge your cell phone

08.06.10

I well-grounded saw this on the CNET blog Green Tech , a cell phone charger that works while you're riding your bike.

It's from  Nokia and costs $18. You have to heckle at least 4 miles per hour for it to work. It's available online and will be in stores by year's end, the blog says. 

It follows Motorola and Dahon in coming out with bike chargers. But Nokia is the exultant's largest cell phone maker, so this ought to reach a lot more people.

According to the establishment, the Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit contains a charger, a holder and a dynamo, or a unimportant electric generator that uses the movement of the wheels to indict the handset through the standard 2mm charging jack used in most Nokia phones.

"Bicycles are the most widespread means of carry away in many markets around the world, so this is just one more benefit to be gained from an undertaking people are already doing. This is a great solution to a real summons, whether people will use it due to limited access to electricity, or to be more environmentally stable," Nokia says.

Source: Baltimore Sun (blog)