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Electronic bracelet with watch and digital pictures which the user himself can charge. Concept designed by the French but China-based office Chocolate.
The required energy for storing and showing the pictures is provided by the wearer, by means of movement of the arm. No further energy source necessary therefore. Kinetic watches exist very long allready. In the future all watches will run on kinetic energy and in that sense will be autarkic.

Chocolate call it an e paper solution, since you don't need to print the pictures of loved ones to carry them with you, but chances are you allready use another mobile device for that. Still an elegant design.

 

 

[Original post in Dutch on Ecocool.nl: Kinetisch is king]

China runs first on environmental issues as everyone knows. There the S116 solar mobile phone is available for quite some time now (watch it here: Solar mobile phone).
French telephone designers Modelabs, who have designed models for all renowned phone makers, made concepts for apparatuses that combine solar-energy and kinetic (movement) - energy. Constituent was SFR, a French telecom-company that wants give way to CSR, particularly in the field of environment.

There are 3 concept apparatuses ("ecological
mobility concepts'): The YoYo, a yoyo (above).

U-turn, a mini boomerang that gets its energy from the movement of the unfolding and folding.

And the runaway, that uses the movement of the sporting (anyway moving) bearer.

Telephone companies: invest.