<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/524530c7-c838-49d6-8cf9-f018329df558/C3836809-2665-4CFF-9648-ADB7509829CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up" href="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up" style="font-size: 11px;">gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up"><H1><A href="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up">Crank This Battery To Charge Up</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up"><P><A href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/10/windupbat1.jpg" rel="lytebox"><IMG width="500" class="left image500" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/10/500x_windupbat1.jpg" /></A>The <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/wind-up-battery/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged WIND UP BATTERY" class="autolink">Wind Up Battery</A> is a rechargeable battery with a little pop-out hand-crank to power up using some good ol' fashioned elbow grease. I'd probably looks like an idiot using it, but better than suffering without a AA.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up"><P>Designed by <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/qian-jiang/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged QIAN JIANG" class="autolink">Qian Jiang</A>, the concept is actually rather brilliant since it wouldn't require an additional gadget to recharge your batteries and depending on how many recharges it would allow for, it might be a rather good deal too. Since this battery is still a concept, we're a bit skeptical about the claim that it could be fully charged in 20 minutes, but that would be fast enough for most of us. Those of us who haven't got the arm muscles of a noodle that is. [<A href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/10/05/crank-up-battery/">Yanko Design</A>]</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5374862/crank-this-battery-to-charge-up"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gizmodo.com/img/D7A020D7-24E2-4F7E-AFED-121C93965BA5" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C3836809-2665-4CFF-9648-ADB7509829CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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