No matter how far smartphone technology may progress, we are still left wanting something more, like being able to charge your phone in complete wilderness. We’ve all been there, with a phone battery dwindling at “less than 10%,” unable to take that very important photo or waiting to tweet that perfectly composed string of 140 characters until you get to a phone charger, by which time your time-specific wit has withered…
A new project on Kickstarter aims to change much of this by offering a USB phone charger that is powered completely by fire. The Flamestower works by converting heat into power, quite literally allowing you to charge your devices anywhere and everywhere — like your next camping trip! — requiring little more than mankind’s most important and necessary invention — fire itself.
Brooklyn-based technologist Matt Richardson created this badass dynamic bike headlight, which detects the speed at which you're riding and projects it onto the street in front of you. In the above video, Richardson explains how he made the device, whipping it together using a speed sensor mounted on the front…
When you ride a bike in the city, a lock is a necessary evil. They're bulky, heavy, and can never totally ensure your ride's safety against a well-armed thief, but what are you going to do -- not lock it up? SkyLock aims to make the bike-locking experience a little…
A group of British researchers has reached a truly piss-poor solution to phone battery life: piss! That is to say, a urine-powered fuel cell that outputs an electricity. Here it is on video: How does it work? Bacteria placed in the fuel cell consume your pee, and naturally output electrons…
