Hydrobee lets you charge a battery from a fast-flowing river

    We've seen fire harnessed to power a phone charger for the great outdoors with the nifty FlameStower. Now meet Hydrobee which harvests power from flowing water.


    A new alternative in off-grid personal power for a billion people, Hydrobee is a tiny hydropower turbine in a can! After the water flows through it, you pick it up and have a can full of electric "juice" to go. As long as you have a stream or river flowing at walking speed, or a household water faucet and standard flow, the Hydrobee is a renewable USB power source for you.

There's two parts to Hydrobee. When wearing its 'Stream Body', the gizmo can be placed in a river or dragged behind a boat - so long as the water is flowing faster than 1.8m/s or (4mph+) - and two to four hours later its battery will be fully charged (source: TechCrunch)

The internal batteries are 6 x 1.2V AA NiMH rechargeable cells of 2,500mAh capacity, yielding a total of 15,000 mAh.

Gizmag says,

Hydrobee wants to be your personal hydroelectric generator

 Trendhunter says,

When the zombie apocalypse takes place and a person finds him- or herself hiding in a forest or ravine with nothing more than a survival backpack, they could sure use the Hydrobee

 Oh Gizmo! says,

Hydrobee is your own portable hydroelectric plant

     The Hydrobee turbine generator, which can be used to generate a charge from water from a running faucet or hose, is being offered to early Kickstarter backers for $24.

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