h a l f b a k e r yYeah, I wish it made more sense too.
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Laptops should have a mouse attached via an internal cord reel, like a vacuum cleaner cable. The mouse should slowly retract back into the laptop when not being used.
The reel should drive a generator when the mouse is pulled, a bit like a rowing machine. Then when the battery is running flat a
few brisk strokes would charge it up nicely. The screen could display motivational messages at the same time, or a rowing game.
This might work best with something like a Panasonic Toughbook, then you could take it off the desk, put your feet on it for better traction, and row away with the mouse two-handed, just like a rowing machine. Rowing is a pretty efficient form of exercise, using lots of different muscle groups, which should make it well suited to electricity generation.
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Many laptops a lot of power. A typical person could produce enough power using a pedal crank, but most people would tire quickly trying to produce that much power with a hand crank. A "rip cord" (did you mean "zip cord"?) would be even less efficient. |
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[+] Now you need to attach it to a pedal
bike ;) |
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cool idea. won't create enough power as
[supercat] pointed out. something that is
part of an easily continued rhythym is
required. pedals are good. |
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just make sure that people don't try for
those kinetic watch battery chargers.
swinging laptops around seems like a bit
of a health hazard. |
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I hope the cord is lockable, because I would hate having a mouse that is always resisting me (wouldn't it constatly be pulling the mouse sideways?). |
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And the mouse shouldn't be built-in to the laptop. It would probably actually take many strokes, rather than few to "charge it up nicely". I would probably vote for this with a few modifications. |
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