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May 11, 2007
ExStatik PowerComb
From yesterday's Financial Times "How To Spend It" supplement:
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ExStatik PowerComb
They say power goes to your head, but this ingenious device proves the opposite.
The Exstatik PowerComb [above] converts the static electricity generated by combing the hair for a minute or two into enough real electrical power to charge a mobile phone/MP3 player/nose-hair clippers for over half an hour.
Works with any body hair.
Neat.
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Stipulated.
Now where can I get one?
And I wonder how long it'll be until the Furminator krew twig and offer this option on their tools?
Funny, isn't it, how we were just speculating on the future of such power sources and then this thing comes along?
Must be a sign.
What's yours?
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Checked the date - and it doesn't appear to be the first of April - but I still reckon this is a spoof.
Posted by: Skipweasel | May 11, 2007 1:18:29 PM
> From yesterday's Financial Times "How To Spend It" supplement
Really? You sure it's not meant to be a joke?
Because this device absolutely positively can not work. Hair-combing static is good for microwatts at best, even if there were some efficient way to downconvert it to low voltage, which there isn't.
Posted by: Daniel Rutter | May 11, 2007 3:09:37 PM
Cancer. My sign, I mean. Your question, at the end there.
Works with "any" body hair? Eeeeeewwwww!! Visions of some bald guy giving his chest and armpit hair hell so he can yak on his phone for two more minutes.
Posted by: Flautist | May 11, 2007 4:40:38 PM
nonsense..
Posted by: | May 14, 2007 4:04:46 AM
