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Oct 7, 2010

Concept Phone Made From Copper Charges in Pockets Using a Thermogenerator

What would you sacrifice for a phone that charges by inducting heat from your body? An OS? A brand-name you can be proud of? A touchscreen? That's the question I pose to you, after spotting this concept Nokia phone.

It's been dreamed up by English designer Patrick Hyland, who envisions the phone to be made from copper and capable of drawing heat from your body (or something like an overheating laptop), converting it to energy. That's by way of a thermogenerator that's been placed in the copper E-Cu phone ("E" for environment, and "Cu" for copper, naturally).

I'm not so sure the increasing prices (and demand) for copper will ever make this phone a reality, but in the meantime it's nice to see someone use the Nokia name for good. Unlike, err, Nokia.

49 comments:

killerkun said...

If it can make calls and send sms i would totally buy it

remzi said...

Looks kinda cool

Naj said...

well this will be really nice... imagine.. you won't have to charge your phone again!

Teakay said...

This might just be the thing nokia needs.

razortek said...

cool post bro!!:)

Unknown said...

copper is pretty expensive, but then again, all the circuits i a phone are.
It might be a viable solution.
It looks awesome though! Nokia E52 times 9000!

Skutt Panda PO said...

this phone is for womans :))
look better black

Engelhart said...

It'll save the couple of grams of CO2 you'd make by charging your phone with mains power!

Alex said...

That's a really cool phone!

Tip Junkies said...

Such a great concept

2Beer1Sip said...

looks expensiv

Anonymous said...

very slim

YukonAfternoon said...

That's definitely and interesting concept for a phone.

KnT said...

I'm too hooked on smart phones.

Max Steel said...

Copper is still way cheaper then lithium ion batteries

Rubilax said...

Pretty neat.

Chris said...

It's a great idea, but I'd like to see it implemented with something besides copper...too expensive!

Zygg said...

Anything that isn't Apple is a brand name I can be proud of :P

Allen said...

wow, that is pretty innovative.

RJ said...

wow that's awesome; hope we see it sometime soon

anchors89 said...

going to be years away until anything like this hits the mainstream, if it ever does... but hey, its still a great idea

carles said...

good phone follow me to my blog

aGas said...

that phone looks cool.

Anonymous said...

How thin is that?

Cpt Pownzor said...

Really cool..i hate when my phone dies when im out

Igloo said...

thats really cool.

http://starwars-stuff.blogspot.com said...

that's a crazy idea... I wonder if all our electronic devices will have this ability in the near future.

Tradd said...

read about this on gizmodo, seems interesting.

Paul said...

Awesome, this is really cool :)

LoneIslander said...

As long as is can make calls and play Tetris, I would be happy.

kabello said...

charge with termo? wow its insane

momo said...

i totally want it

Even said...

hehe

Unreal said...

That is actually pretty smart XD
But you brought up the main point of cost efficiency.. as copper prices rise, so will the cost of phones like these

Unknown said...

That's pretty sick

Nadldnas said...

That sounds handy :O

DrFresh said...

I love nokias, Nokias done soooo much more for mobile phones than any other company... thats right, better than the CRAPple Iphone. lol

Lil Pee said...

mine would exploed if i put it in my pockets.. too much heat...

Victor M. said...

Actually a pretty unique plan. Sadly not all good plans come to light... hopefully this one will though.

http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

OneFourSeven said...

Oh my god, even if this doesn't take off as a commercial product we're figuring out ways to eliminate the problem of battery life altogether! Once that bottleneck is removed, handheld devices can become the incredible tools we've been imagining since Star Trek.

The Square Circle said...

wow. super cool.

ShredGuitar said...

Amazing!

Intellectual Relapse said...

cool idea and design, although I doubt it'll charge it much, thermogenerators are pretty inefficient even at their theoretical maximum

Dan said...

that's super cool but if it's as thin as in the pic I'd be afraid of breaking it.

starMaster! said...

thats crazy!

Abigale Consulting said...

It looks cool.

Paladin-Bias said...

brilliant. need more ingenuity like this

/k/anadian!!qvAmR1ZzV4 said...

Now THAT is neat. I kinda foresee the copper oxidizing, making your sweet phone go green.

IndustrialHaze said...

cool beans
when I'm home i never have my phone in my pocket though its always on my desk