Eco Factor: Solar-powered battery charger.
Discharged dry cells have a serious environmental threat with all those toxic electricity-producing chemicals inside them. But the importance of dry cells in today’s electronic gadgets can’t be ruled out. Rechargeable batteries do help in saving the precious resources of the environment, but again they need electricity to keep them juiced up, which again is not always an eco-resource. Designer Jangho Kim has tried to develop a feasible answer in the form of a product he calls the Solar Pot.
Just like in a normal pot you plant some seeds and wait for the sun to do its job and nourish the plant, the Solar Pot encourages users to plant a discharged battery and keep the pot in the sun. The sun here doesn’t nourish a baby battery tree, but recharges them making them fit for reuse. A small LED light glows when the batteries are sufficiently charged and can be used again.
The Dark Side:
The device would just be able to recharge rechargeable batteries, but disposable cells, which are more in use, will still have the same fate.
Via: [Jangho Kim] Core77
Comments
product which is very useful for me and friend
It’s very useful, thanks
Cool!
cool!
let’s go green and keep the world
i love this gadget very much
Fantastic idea nice post
It would be nice to know a little about the technical details.
How much sun it would actually require. (a fitting question here in the sunny UK)
How quickly it could recharge a battery.
For how much it could be produced.
The environmental damage done by the development and production.
Unfortunatly sometimes the damage done by producing a new product out weighs the saving from its use there after.
None the less an interesting product. But dont we already have solar battery chargers? I feel this is really just a typical product design, more thought on a quirky sales gimick than the actual problem.
very cool