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Hand Cranking Cell Phone Charger

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Do you find yourself out in the woods with a low mobile battery? No cord, no power, and a giant need to make or take a call? What do you do? MakeZine has a pretty sweet tutorial video on how to make some power to juice up your cell phone via a handcrank flashlight.

Simple Steps involved:

  • Take apart handcrank flashlight.
  • Solder in a 12 volt car adapter for the phone.

If you find yourself with power on your cell frequently, this could be something thats extremely simple for you to make up.
hand crank cell phone charger

Or you can always get the Viatek Dynamo 3 LED Flashlight with a cell phone charging outlet for roughly the same price as the typical hand cranking flashlight.
[via Gizmodo]

Change your Blackberry Pearl trackball color

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Being able to customize little pieces of our electronic devices is all about the mobile pimping lifestyle. Blakberry Forums has a tutorial on how to change up boring white trackballs on Blackberry’s new Pearl device to brilliant glowing multi-color balls. The tutorial goes over how to open and disassemble all parts of the device and where to color the innards.
blackberry pearl trackball color change

[via Gizmodo]


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