05-08-2016 20:48 via theverge.com

The hottest new iPhone charger is a babbling brook

YouTube filmmaker and DIY-engineer Thomas Kin harnessed the power of water to charge his iPhone. Meanwhile, my iPhone battery is dead because the outlet is just out of reach from my bed and ugh. If we competed against one another in some sort of survivalist contest, my only hope of beating Thomas Kin would be to curl up into a ball and hope he’d exhaust himself.
Kin's water wheel generator is made from recycled "plastic bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, [and a] rec
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