Taking Recharging Outdoors

No matter how hard you try to prevent it, you will experience what it feels like to have your cellphone's battery run out of juice. It could be because of excessive usage or you simply forgot to take note of the low power. Regardless of the cause, you've seen it happen before and, as long as you continue to use cellphones, you know it's going to happen again.

Orange UK is seeking to alleviate that problem at this year's Glastonbury music festival by providing a charging station that allows you to recharge outside the comfort of your home. Actually, you could say outside the comfort of anything and you'd still be right.

Orange UK has announced the launch of a freestanding wind powered mobile phone charging station for attendees of the infamous Glastonbury music festival later this month. At over 7 meters in height, the free standing REcharge Pod is a self sufficient unit that supports a wind generator and solar panels and can charge up to 100 mobile phones simultaneously. It is estimated that the Orange REcharge pod will charge thousands of mobile phones over the course of the 3 day festival.

No word on whether a commercial version of the tent is going to be released soon, not that I want one, of course.

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