of mobile phone battery dead? try dancing

Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing: The Orange "dance charge" prototype charger makes use of 'dance energy'.

Like Dance Dance Revolution, but in this case it is Dance Dance Recharging!

What do you do if you're stuck in a field at a pop festival but there's trouble ahead because your mobile phone's battery is about to run out?

Thanks to a new gizmo, you now just need to face the music and dance.

Mobile phone operator Orange said on Tuesday it had teamed up with GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone.

The portable kinetic energy chargers will be given a test run at this year's Glastonbury Festival, the world's biggest greenfield music and arts celebration that begins on a farm in Somerset, southwest England on Friday.

Hattie Magee, Head of Partnerships at Orange UK, says

We wanted to create a fun, engaging and interactive product which would encourage users to have a laugh while charging their mobile phone and at the same time test out a new energy-efficient prototype

[via i4u]