Creativity to the Fore: Hand-Powered LED Lights

Here we have some more creative ideas on using the ever more popular LED eco-light formula.
The designer uses the old hand cranking pencil sharpener as an inspiration to create a hand-powered electricity generator. All one does is crank the handle a few times to generate and also store enough electricity to actually power a small LED light. And for some reason, they decided to keep the original functioning pencil sharpener as part of their design – YES – it actually sharpens pencils.

Hand Powered LED Light

I think that aspect will soon be left out of future designs as it is really completely redundant – unless of course you’re actually buying it for a novel pencil sharpener – perhaps for the the man, woman or child who has everything. But it’s a nice ploy and sort of celebrates the original pencil sharpener design’s invention.

Flip-Out Hand Crank for Manual Recharge
As you can see from the pictures, it’s basically a cylindrical shape with a little button at the top which releases the hand cranking handle for you to charge the LED up again or further. Then you just flip the cranker away and you’re back with a moderately elegant small light. It would be interesting to know how much cranking provides how many minutes of light – I guess that’ll be published soon. The light-weight light can be suspended from a thin cord and comes in several somewhat neon looking colors.

An interesting gadget with a good element of novelty - the sort of thing that should be released at Christmas, so children can have fun in the early hours with their stockings (or am I rather out of date with modern christmas routines?)!