Charge Your Smart phone with Power Pocket | Vodafone Sleeping Bag Charger | Review

Cellphone battery life is more important. Now no need to worry about your phone battery life, Vodafone has announced a battery charger in the market called Power Pocket. This Power pocket prototype uses your body heat energy and convert it to electrical energy through which your phone get charge.

However, Power Pocket is developed by Vodafone and scientists from the university of Southampton, this Power Pocket is a sleeping bag that can charge your smartphone while you're sleeping or it can charge on dancing, walking as well.

Power Pocket uses thermoelectric power generator technology. This prototype will give you 24 minutes of talktime and 11 hours of standby time after spending 8 hours in the bag. Power Pockets sounds great, but we have no information on availability and price.

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Charging Mobile With Hot Coffee OR Cold Drink | Temprature Based Mobile Charger

US company Epiphany Labs researchers has developed a mobile charger that charging your mobile phone with Hot coffee, cold coffee, soft drinks or chilled Beer.

The company claims that the two-sided Epiphany onE Puck converts the warmth of your hot cocoa or iced beverage into power for your phone. The lightweight device is portable enough to store in your purse or day bag for emergencies.

It uses something called a Stirling engine to turn heat into energy. Stirling engines were actually invented in 1816 as a rival to the steam engine, but its use was limited to low-power applications for a long time.

US company Epiphany Labs, based in New Castle, Pennsylvania, has built a working prototype and hopes to have it on the market early in 2014. The company is still vague on just how long it takes for the device to charge up a phone because there are a lot of variables at play, including how hot or cold the source is. Any source of heat that can fit on the Puck will work.

It works best with something that's very warm like a steaming cup of tea or coffee, or very cold like a well chilled beer or soft drink.

The Mobile Charger comes with a USB port that can charge any device that draws 1000mA or less. This means it can charge iPhones, Androids, iPods and other USB-based devices.

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