A new device, the nPower PEG by Temont Electronic , means that you can recharge your phone, MP3 player or other hand-held devices using the energy you generate while skiing. The device is small enough to put in a backpack. As you move, it captures and stores your kinetic energy....See: http://www.utahskier.net/utah_skier/2010/07/kinetic-energy-phone-charger-a-life-saver-for-backcountry-enthusiasts-723-10.html

[A snowHead]

A new device, the nPower PEG by Temont Electronic , means that you can recharge your phone, MP3 player or other hand-held devices using the energy you generate while skiing. The device is small enough to put in a backpack. As you move, it captures and stores your kinetic energy....See: http://www.utahskier.net/utah_skier/2010/07/kinetic-energy-phone-charger-a-life-saver-for-backcountry-enthusiasts-723-10.html

Wow, I use something even more incredible... My brain. It helps me remember to recharge phone over night using some fancy gizmo called "a phone charger".

[A snowHead]

Wow, I use something even more incredible... My brain. It helps me remember to recharge phone over night using some fancy gizmo called "a phone charger".

Wow, I use something even more incredible... My brain. It helps me remember to recharge phone over night using some fancy gizmo called "a phone charger".

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Bode Swiller, doesn't help if you're in Wengen and your charger is at home .

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maggi, then you would probably also have forgotten your nPower PEG

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Sometimes the adaptor plugs are a bit temperamental though - you plug your phone in and in the morning no freeking battery life.

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ah who nneds a phone when snowboarding

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if they got the technology right maybe all the potential energy of people rushing downhill could be used to take them back up again. Or could contribute to it, at any rate.