Orange Power Wellies convert all that dancin’ to juice for your mobile
We're coming upon festival season again, and you know what that means -- Orange is dragging their solar energy tent to Glastonbury . This year, prepare to charge your mobile phone while checking out the acts at the John Peel Stage, courtesy of your new Power Wellies. Developed in partnership with GotWind, the soles of the boots collect heat all day and, using something called the Seebeck effect , this heat is converted into electricity -- electricity that can be used to recharge your phone later that night
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acts, chargingboots, engadget, festival-season, glastonbury 2010, phone-charger, power, power wellies, seebeck effect, spin seebeck effect, wellington
Palm deploying crack team of kind strangers to give you stuff
If you're walking around with your Pre or Pixi prominently displayed and some dude comes up to you and tries to hand you a bag, don't freak out: odds are you've merely been selected for one of Palm's "random acts of wow." The company is playing coy about where these people are or for how long the promotion is going to last, but apparently they've got people all over the world on the prowl for Palm users that look like they could use an accessory or three, with gifts ranging from stickers all the way up to pricey Touchstones and everything in between.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acts, engadget-mobile, entry, gifts, odds, over-the-world, palm, stickers, touchstones