Came across this rather amazing item the other day, and instantly thought this might be a very, very useful power/recharging mechanism for the XO...
A lamp powered by gravity producing 40 watts over 4 hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using about 2 watts...) Not affected by weather/season/time of day (e.g. solar/wind) or behaviour (animal/cow) or location, etc. An unlimited power source available anywhere anytime! Could this mechanism (which apparently is more durable than the LEDs in the lamp!) be modified to power and/or recharge the XO batteries, etc.? A preliminary article about the gravity lamp can be found here (from Virginia Tech): http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008&itemno=111 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
