Pedal-Powered Laptops Tested in Afghanistan

[JMcEntegart]

Pedaled-powered laptops for school children in Afghanistan.

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[sstym]

"We've always been a been of the OLPC initiative"
I assume you meant "Been a fan"

Anyhoo.

Good idea. I can also see that as a helpful tool for overweight kids in industrialized nations.

 

[Guest]

Ha. This belongs in America, not Afghanistan. Gotta get this fat country in shape.

 

[socrates047]

i think this might cure internet addiction, for kids who are obese, if we were to go with the stereotype of how internet addicts are obese.

 

[wildwell]

These are awesome. We definitely need them here too. Lower your body-mass index and your carbon footprint! Ha ha.

 

[dannyaa]

I've actually thought of getting one of those pedal powered exercise bikes for doing long sessions of desktop work... can this work to store a charge as well? It would be cool if kids could plug it into their bicycle and as they pedal to school or wherever, it would charge the battery

 

[Boxa786]

Soon it will be Pedal-Powered Mobile phones.

It would be better (damn posted before me), if this was used to power huge battery that would store the power till its needed, such as when areas such as afghanistan, where having power 24/7 is a known problem, can just easily connect their electric devices to this battery, during a power outage.

Ofc the alternative is a generator.

 

[athreex]

Nice idea.

I don't think you'll have to pedal too much, The XOs don't have significant power consumption.

[citation][nom]wildwell[/nom]These are awesome. We definitely need them here too. Lower your body-mass index and your carbon footprint! Ha ha.[/citation]

+1. Haha..I could imagine this tech being implemented on today's high end notebooks. Buy a Core i 920XM with Sli GTX 280M + 640 GB x 2 in RAID 0, and a huge 12 cell battery, excellent for two hours of juice and a pedal system for recharging.

In less than a week, no magic fat-to-thin-in-less-than-a-week pill or some strange utopian natural herb is going to match the exercise you'll be doing on this aerobic desktop replacement.

 

[steiner666]

need to get a pedal powered charger for my netbook! Just the other weekend there was a power outage for several hours and me and my friend were resorting to playing mario kart on it, I didnt have the battery fully charged when the power went out, if i had this it wouldnt have mattered!

 

[asjflask]

"Ha. This belongs in America, not Afghanistan. Gotta get this fat country in shape."

Australia is now ranked above the U.S. in obesity.

 

[Ehsan w]

[citation][nom]asjflask[/nom]"Ha. This belongs in America, not Afghanistan. Gotta get this fat country in shape."Australia is now ranked above the U.S. in obesity.[/citation]

In a couple of years we'll have American's become the most muscular people in the world, when it comes to legs at least 😛

 

[mcvf]

Finally, sitting in front of your computer whole day will be good for your health!

 

[Guest]

It's great to have a laptop in the country side, but what are you going to do with it, when it has no internet connection?

 

[ghazgull]

Those Afghan kids are skinny enough they dont need to be skinnier

 

[ominous prime]

I wonder how fast you would need to peddle in order to play World of Warcraft on a decent rig. Would help a lot with obesity in the states.

 

[El_Capitan]

Great, that's what we want, healthy terrorists with strong legs for when they run towards us to blow us up to smithereens. I can't wait to see the Taliban's training video...