“UK scientists are claiming a world first in developing a way to charge mobile phones using human urine,” Rod Minchin reports for AAP. “The Bristol-based boffins have been able to charge a Samsung phone by putting urine through a cascade of microbial fuel cells.”
“They have generated enough electricity to send text messages, browse the internet and make a brief phone call. The scientists now plan to develop the technology to be able to fully charge the handheld device,” Minchin reports. “The discovery has been made by a team of experts working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, which is a collaboration between the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol. Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos, from the University of the West of England, is an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells.”
Minchin reports, “Dr Ieropoulos believes the technology has the future potential to be installed into domestic bathrooms to harness the urine and produce sufficient electricity to power showers, lighting or razors as well as mobile phones.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the perfect power source for Samsung’s piss-poor knockoffs.
We can see the ads now:
• Samsung. Powered by piss.™
• Samsung Galaxy S5. Pissworthy.™
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “steve” for the heads up.]
“Apple dont piss us off with your inventions. We will piss all over them”.- Samsuck
“The scientists now plan to develop the technology to be able to fully charge the handheld device”
So urine is not enough. Will consumers have to crap on them?
Samsung’s next spokesmodel: Annette Schwarz.
And R. Kelly.
And Fergie!
Kim Kardashian
To all,
But,, But don’t you see, it all fits now..
Zune, Brown like…… well cow droppings.
Samsung Gallaxy P model…. powered by piss,
Google maps…… just full of crap..
Windows….. a real pane in the *ss.
A theme if ever I saw one. /s LOL
If it’s yellow call a fellow….
Finally an excuse to drink more beer!
Though it won’t help me unless Apple adopts this. If they could get cars to run on pee that would be awsome…except guys have a device advantage to fill the tank easier.
Girls can just use a funnel.
You would think so, MacRaven, but most of us would probably still hit the lid…
Who could have thought that pissing on Samsung would be actually useful?
What a sh!t phone
Ad campaign:
I’m in, urine — Samsung
“Samsung – We aim to please. You aim too, please.”
“Samsung: Smartphones that suit you to a pee.”
Didn’t the Zune already try this…..?
I thought Samsung was powered by urine.
The all new Samsung Urin8 available in yellow plastic case
I dunno. This story smells.
These Samsung stories piss me off!.
The new Samsung Dribbler, endorsed by I. P. Freelie
I thought Samsung products were powered by crap.
Jeez, what is it about Bristol?! First the Bristol Poo Chart (any of you medical people ever heard of it?) and now this!
Piece of Copied Crap, Powered by Piss! Samsung needs a name change… “The Galaxy” is now ‘The Reliever’ get the model of your choice, Number 1 or Number 2!
Kinda reminds me of MIcrosoft’s discontinued phones. Is this
Kin ONE and Kin TWO
Samsung copying again? Guess we will have to wait for them to bend over and give us a number 2 🙂
Suddenly a Samsung phone IS worth a bucket of warm pi$$!
The researchers are looking to make a fortune off this. As one’s mother wrote to him: “Urine the money now”
It’s a phone charger.
It’s a pregnancy test.
“It’s a phone charger AND a pregnancy test.” ®
And you can take the pain out of jellyfish stings at the same time you charge your phone.
In other news today, a women in China was electrocuted while trying to charge her iPhone by urinating on it.
Now, THIS is “yellow journalism,” plain and simple!
I guess some one tried to make a positive about people saying piss on Samsung.
Talk about making lemons out of lemonade.
How appropriate!
Haha 🙂