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  How Do YOU Charge Your iPod When the Power Goes Out? Last week the power went out across the north east after a series of storms swept across the great lakes. Now, I am not one to complain about happenstance, so I grabbed at the silver lining.
I BBQ'd a nice dinner, set out some candles, plugged in my iPod to some portable speakers I have, and sat down with my wife for a nice romantic dinner.

Unfortunately, half way through the meal the iPod died. There goes the Podcast we were listening to, to set the mood :) Well... It was still a good evening, but I hate losing my music. No TV, no lights, no problem. No music for a few hours and I start to go a little funny.

So I did a little searching and came across 'Geek Technique'. This ingenious fella has gone and created a hand crank to power his iPod. Great Stuff.

Now, I am a pretty handy guy all around, but still, I am no electrical engineer; so I will wait until I purchase my next iPod before I try this just in case :) It is always good to have a spare when fixin' stuff. But it would be pretty cool to be able to charge up your iPod and listend to a Podcast wherever you are! even if people to stop and point at you...

Check out this picture:



He has used one of those hand crank flashlights to get the job done.

This is definately the most creative modification that we have seen to an iPod to date!

Thanks to Mark at Geek Technique for this!





Michael V

P.S. Have you seen any other great mods to an iPod or other MP3 device? Let us know!


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