Love cycling? Turn your daily commute into all the power you need to charge your mobile gadgets. The RollerGen generates 30 watts, stored in a removable Battery BOS which charges two of your favorite USB devices. Riding two miles will provide you with enough juice to charge a cellphone and a 30 minute commute completely charges up the battery.
This is a great device with a lot of potential for those of us who are off-the-grid and have access to a bicycle. The RollerGen mounts to your bike just like any other rack. A thumb control lets you raise and lower a high power dynamo against the tire. All you have to do is lower it when you want to generate electricity.
If the battery is fully charged or you need to do some tricky uphill maneuvers, you can raise the dynamo up again for zero-drag riding. The device also includes an underslung storage bin, which, besides housing the battery, can hold all the other goodies you’ll need for the day.
The Battery BOS itself, named after its shape, a Bar-Of-Soap, is a rechargeable storage unit that consolidates all your plugs into the USB standard. The removable battery also has an energy gauge, mini light, and the potential to replace hundreds of disposable batteries.
This ingenious bicycle-mounted energy generator is but one of the gadgets featured at the Greener Gadgets Design Competition taking place this month in New York City. With innovation like this, we have the power to change the world, well, at least when charging our gadgets!
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Now THAT’S what I want! I wonder why no one has ever thought of this before; I mean, everyone is suggesting that we use bicycles more than we do our cars. Looking forward for this to be sold at some point! Thanks for the article!
This is a neat idea. It actually reminds me of a device that I had on my bicycle as a kid in the early 1990′s. It had a rubber roller that rolled along with my bicycle tire and powered the headlight of my bike. It was a very powerful headlight (not like the little LED lights you see here in the city)
Thanks for sharing this.
Good find. This is brilliant. Once the snow thaws up here in Toronto I’m going to stop using public tans and use a bike, this will be a day one purchase for me.