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Patrick Hyland is working on creating a "charger-free cell phone future." This means that, in addition to lowering electricity consumption, we won't have to mess with annoying chargers anymore and can stop throwing them away (because we won't have them in the first place).
According to Hyland, discarded chargers produce 51,000 tons of waste annually. To address this problem, he's proposed a cell phone that charges with heat. A conductive copper skin transmits heat to a thermogenerator inside, producing electricity when the phone is placed on a radiator or inside a pocket. The skin is engraved with small heatsinks, mimicking a sun-baked, dry earth pattern.
Lisa is dedicated to promoting the American contemporary design scene. She keeps herself busy as the co-founder of the Object Design League, an association of independent designers in Chicago, and design practice Smith&Linder, both co-founded with Caroline Linder. She also teaches foundation research studios at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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JP
If you want more information please email me for enquiries- I can't just put it on here.
The Phone is still in its concept stages and I designed it back in 2009 and was at CSM so that was before I went to the RCA and Imperial and didn't have these kind of facilitates and now I do have access and intend to develop it further.
Patrick Hyland
I wish the article was more clear on this.
he's an artist not an engineer dammit!
If you've done the calculations you should show them to validate the concept. If you haven't, you must.