Clockwork mobile phone charger is no wind-up
News UK consumers should be able to buy a clockwork mobile phone charger by the end of 2001. Freeplay is the company that successfully turned the clockwork radio designed by British inventor Trevor Baylis into a commercially successful product.
[September 6, 2001, 14:26]
Wind-up phone charger lands in UK
News Both new products use Freeplay's latest power technology, which unlike the first generation of wind-up radios does not rely on clockwork. Launched on Wednesday, the Motorola FreeCharge is a wind-up mobile phone charger.
[July 17, 2002, 14:51]
Motorola FreeCharge review
Reviews The mechanism used isn't clockwork -- rather, the handle winds a generator, which charges an internal Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery. As well as the mobile charger modules, you're given a torch module for the FreeCharge.
[July 23, 2002, 18:31]
Brit inventor designs in-shoe mobile charger
News British inventor Trevor Baylis -- designer of the world's first clockwork radio -- has come up with a concept to charge a mobile phone by walking. Like his clockwork radio, Baylis sees third world countries as being the biggest beneficiaries of his...
[January 12, 2000, 9:04]
