wireless and unbatteried
Trevor Bayliss is an inventor of heroic proportions here in the UK. He invented the wind-up radio. Portable and with no need for chemically based, environmentally damaging, batteries.
My fabulous hand-crank radio also includes a solar panel. I’ve never yet had to wind it up because the light in the Wendy House conservatory keeps it going longer than any duracell battery would….
I do occassionally wind it up because, like the gravity-powered exit, the action is very pleasing. Pleasing is more than the ‘satisfactory’ experience required to establish conformance with usability standards.
I tried to complete a ‘System Usability Scale’ (SUS) for my fabulous radio incase I meet and usability people that would like to know, in numbers, exactly how fabulous it is. Unfortunately I was unable to complete the SUS because I don’t know what ‘integrated functionality’ is and am confused by the concept of an ‘inconsistent’ product, so I couldn’t answer questions that included these things. I’ll just tell the usability people its a 7000 on the SUS scale, they’ll get the general idea.
March 22nd, 2009
The solar battery’s a must. I can only muster up enough wind-up power for about five minutes’ worth of digital radio (about an hour of Radio 4 on proper wireless)
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March 23rd, 2009
think of the value to your wrist-miscles of extended radio-4 wind-up listening…. cross benefits
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March 23rd, 2009
I’m not as young as I used to be
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