{"id":3420,"date":"2016-08-10T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2016-08-10T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:03:10","slug":"wind-up-your-iphonethis-is-not-a-wind-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3420-wind-up-your-iphonethis-is-not-a-wind-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Wind up your iPhone\u2013this is not a wind up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long thought that the solution to the difficulties we have keeping mobile devices charged is to make more use of the energy created by our bodies as we move around.<\/p>\n<p>Once long ago I had a mechanical watch whose automatic winding worked perfectly; I never had to think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received news of something which is not quite that, but which still sounds useful. An iPhone case equipped with a dynamo so you can turn a handle to recharge it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"334\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claiming to be the \u201cWorld\u2019s first dynamo-powered iPhone case\u201d, the AMPware Power Generating iPhone case offers up to 2 hours phone use from \u201c10 minutes of winding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s note that 10 minutes of winding feels like a long time when you are doing it. However, if you are stranded without power it could be most useful.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the case is for iPhone 6 and 6S only. Cost is \u00a369.99 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefowndry.com\/products\/ampware-power-generating-iphone-case\">The Fowndry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long thought that the solution to the difficulties we have keeping mobile devices charged is to make more use of the energy created by our bodies as we move around. Once long ago I had a mechanical watch whose automatic winding worked perfectly; I never had to think about it. Today I received &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3420-wind-up-your-iphonethis-is-not-a-wind-up.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wind up your iPhone\u2013this is not a wind up!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,1152],"tags":[501],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-mobile","category-smartphones","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}