Potenco Charger

Here's a cool little gadget for the Vermont hipster. It's a portable generator from Potenco that you can use to recharge your laptop or iPod by simply pulling the string a bunch of times. Each pull generates enough energy to recharge your iPod for another song. So, if you pull the string for about two minutes, that would give you enough power for a day of grooving without impacting the environment.

Oh, I could see the cool cats on Church St. yanking their strings now.

However, the reality in Vermont is that people would first need to convert from Discmans to iPods up here. I've never lived anywhere that is so littered with Discmans. It's like people still think its 1997 around here.