Do I like chargers, in truth no I don’t.
Their black, dusty, never around when you want one and their messy and for the last 10 years plus, when you left yours at home, you can never find a charger to use the same as yours? Well imagine if you didn’t ever need a charger at all, that you didn’t need to trawl through the kitchen drawer to find one again, hurrah.
Well Nokia have taken that thought on board and have come up with a new concept green mobile phone, the E-Cu it does away with a charger all together, more hurrahs. Patrick Hyland (London) developed this phone using a built in thermogenerators.
The mobile basically charges itself by converting heat energy into electric potential energy. It can be charged from any heat source, for instance by putting it on a radiator or in your pocket. Phone chargers cause around 50,000 tonnes of e-waste a year which was the central driver for the E-Cu mobile design and here it is super slim and charger free, wonderful.
