Now, charge your phone with coffee and beer.....
A new device that can charge your mobile phone with a hot cup of coffee or a cold beer mug has been developed by a US company.
The company claims that the two-sided Epiphany onE Puck converts the
warmth of your hot cocoa or iced beverage into power for your phone. The
lightweight device is portable enough to store in your purse or day bag
for emergencies.
The device
uses a Stirling engine powered solely by heat disparities to generate
the electricity to keep your phone up and running, Gizmag reported.
Stirling engines were actually invented in 1816 as a rival to the steam
engine, but its use was limited to low-power applications for a long
time.
Epiphany Labs is using modern materials to use the
technology in a rather different way. The most obvious evolution comes
in terms of size.
The working prototype of the Epiphany onE
Puck is not much larger than the bottom of a cup, so it's small enough
to carry around easily.
The device has two sides - a blue side
for cold drinks and a red side for hot drinks. According to its
creators, a hot drink is the optimal way to charge a device.
It
comes with a USB port that can charge any device that draws 1000mA or
less. This means it can charge iPhones, Androids, iPods and other
USB-based devices.
Epiphany Labs claims that, in ideal
circumstances, the device would be able to charge your phone at the same
speed you would see plugging it in directly to a wall.
It will
also work in less-than-ideal conditions, but if you are not placing a
fresh hot drink on the Puck, you will have to wait a little longer for
your device to receive a full charge.
Jyoti
Amge (born December 16, 1993), a resident of Nagpur, India, is
currently the world's smallest woman according to the Limca Book of
Records and Guinness Book of Records.
A documentary featuring
Amge was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 on June 11, 2009
at 21:00 called BodyShock: Two Foot High Teen. She was a guest
participant at Bigg Boss 6 - a
winner-take-all television show in India where participants are required
to live together in a large house engaging in a variety of 'tasks' as
part of the
game-show. As of December 16, 2011, on her 18th birthday,
she has been officially declared the world's smallest woman by Guinness
Book of Records with a height of 62.8 cm (24.7 inches). Her restricted
height is due to a growth anomaly called achondroplasia.
Sylvester Stallone's slurred speech is actually caused by an accident at birth that caused semi-paralysis in parts of his face
Sylvester Stallone is well known as an actor and especially as an
action hero. Some of his most famous movies are Rocky and Rambo. In
both, Stallone (whose full name is actually Michael Sylvester Gardenzio
Stallone) plays the macho title characters, Rocky Balboa and John Rambo
respectively. Stallone may be as famous for his distinctive voice as
for his muscular physique. His diction is slightly slurred, slightly
accented, and always intimidating.
Maybe you thought it was a
side-effect of his intense weight-lifting routine or an act he put on to
appear tougher. Neither are correct it turns out. Sylvester Stallone's
slurred speech is actually caused by an accident during Stallone's
birth. Due to complications, his mother's doctors were forced to use
forceps to help deliver little Sylvester. The doctor accidentally
severed one of Stallone's nerves in the process causing partial
paralysis in the baby's face. The lower left side of his face remains
paralyzed today. This includes parts of his lips, tongue and chin. And
this is what causes Stallone's trademark snarl and distinctive voice.
