Makes me wonder about the heat, thought.
You want to see something weird, go check the 100 dollars laptop site. The link here is to the gallery. See the yellow thing by the side of the green lap? Yep, that’s the thing’s power source. I wonder how many turns it takes for it to work for a minute.
Ren, after some digging around on their wiki I found this link: http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17194&ch=infotech
It describes a generator that will use a pull string as its power source. Also it seems it might work with other handcrank and foot pedal generator systems, and in any case they’ve decided making the crank a part of the laptop instead of part of an external generator is a dumb idea.
They ditched that Ren. It’d break too easily.