Dancing the latest bright spark

Source: Agencies  |   2008-6-25  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

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WHAT do you do if you are stuck in a field at a pop festival but there's trouble ahead because your mobile phone's battery is about to run out?

Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance.

UK mobile phone operator Orange said yesterday it had teamed up with GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone. The portable kinetic energy chargers will be given a test run at this year's Glastonbury Festival, the world's biggest greenfield music and arts celebration that begins on a farm in Somerset on Friday.

Orange said the prototype chargers weigh the same as a phone and employ a system of weights and magnets which provide an electric current to top up the charge in a storage battery.


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