Wind-up mobile phone in the making: Ventus

You’re in an important conference call and the darn mobile phone lets you down big time. It just shuts down on you, for there’s zero charge in the battery. The call is hanging in mid conversation and there’s no charger in sight. What do you do? Simple: Give it a few cranks and presto! The battery is charged! This is no fiction folks, sometime in the near future, you might actually be able to do this.

TCL, a firm based in Briton, has come up with a  wind-up mobile phone prototype that could be the world’s first. Given the working title Ventus, the mobile phone is to be launched next year. The wind-up phone is still under the early stages of development and the creators seem to expect it to do well in developing countries like India and Africa whose  power infrastructure is not as good as the mobile coverage.

TCL says that the mobile phone will have a talktime of 4 minutes after cranking for a minute. The power is created using a novel ultra-thin dynamo. The firm also manufactures wind-up torches and radios under the brand name of ‘Trevor Baylis’, after the British inventor of wind-up radio. The handset has rear-mounted solar panels and can supposedly be left in standby state as long as the panels are exposed to sunlight. TCL’s innovation charges the battery directly and does not require a plug  for charging it up, whatsoever. How about that, eh? Lets hope these brainy dudes launch the gadget by next year as promised.

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