September 14, 2007

Revisiting Potenco’s Innovative Pull-Cord Generator

potenco device In an ideal world, most of our energy needs would be met by cheap, simple, yet elegant devices like Potenco’s revolutionary pull-cord generator (PCG). We’ve raved about this power generator before and - during our brief romp through this year’s WIRED Nextfest - had the chance to meet Colin Bulthaup, the startup’s ambitious CEO, and test the device out for ourselves. With very little effort, we were quickly able to generate enough energy to power half an hour of talk time on a cell phone and 2 hours’ wor…

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