We all know how useful an iPhone or iPod touch can get, especially during those times when a quick game or video can save you from boredom and awkward moments at a party where you don’t really know anyone. Problem is, multimedia and gaming can drain your mobile’s battery pretty fast. Here’s a snap-on solution that can double your runtimes.
Although solar-charging phones is seen as a direction everyone could move on to down the road, this makes a little bit more sense—if only for the people who don’t have the time to leave their phones under the sun. Nokia has filed a patent for a “piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester,” or, in more simple terms, a cell phone battery that charges itself with electricity gained from movement—basically like a self-powered kinetic watch with the spinning weights inside.
