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This hand-cranked cell-phone charger mounted in a hollowed-out log was apparently discovered in Chechen fighters' encampment. Some of the components -- the pull-string, presumably -- are said to come from toy cars.
Hand-cranked phone charger in a hollow log
This hand-cranked cell-phone charger mounted in a hollowed-out log was apparently discovered in Chechen fighters' encampment. Some of the components -- the pull-string, presumably -- are said to come from toy cars.
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"But Bender, you are technology!"
My guess would have been the motor/generator would be the main part to come from a toy car.
Dendropunk?
They also found a DIY personnel carrier in the encampment
You know what they say, "necessity is the mother of invention"
favorite translated comment from source site:
"can malenkim donkey?"
I think I got the schematic for this somewhere in Megaton.
Oh wait...
Also useful for torture techniques that are far nastier than waterboarding.
Well, maybe not. The ones used for torture are AC and I think cell phones take DC, which just burns - very damaging.
When I was a boy we had to gnaw our cell-phone chargers out of logs with our teeth, and the bark made our gums bleed. That was back when the it was the fashion to wear an an onion on your belt. But we liked it that way, and the electricity was better than the fancy store-bought kind, anyway. And you never know when an onion might come in handy. Where was I? Oh yeah - you tell the kids today that and they won't believe you.
@#9
You forgot to mention "as was the style at the time".
HA!
I'm pretty sure the Professor built one just like this to recharge the battery in the castaways' radio.
Can we get a build log for this please? I need a couple of these for my G1 Android phone.