Pull-Cord Power - It's easy!

One of the coolest products at Nextfest

I spent the weekend at the Wired NextFest, and I have to say that one of the coolest products was the Potenco Pull-Cord Generator.

Pull on it for five minutes and you have hours and hours of power for your iPod. Or, charge your laptop. Power some lights. And, get a little exercise.

While this product has great potential in the countries without electricity, it would still be a good product for campers and hikers, in addition, it would be a great emergency generator in the case of a power outage.

Most important, when I tried this product out it was simple to use. It really doesn't take much muscle power.