Exercise bike charges your gadgets

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jonahbc

January 28th, 2008 2

This custom-built exercise bike wheel turns a generator from an old Volkswagen to charge a 12 volt car battery. I like the idea of using human power to generate gadget power, they just need to get an iPod cable hooked up to this thing. Lots of other cool projects at the below link.

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2 thoughts on “Exercise bike charges your gadgets”

waterdawl says:

January 28th, 2008 at 11:50 am

I’ve been waiting to see something like this! I’ve always thought that exercise machines (bikes, treadmills, ellipticals, whatever) should be used to power themselves and/or other things.