Over the past few days I’ve been blessed with the power capacity to charge my cell phone with harvested solar power. Unfortunately the past two days have been pretty foggy and yesterday the sun didn’t peek through at all so I’m going to resort to giving my cell phone a full charge from the grid. Not my preference but given the current sate of my environment I’ve done what I can to harvest and use my own power.
I’m choosing to think of what devices I can charge that don’t hold a lot of juice. My cell phone and battery banks are in my mind clearly too large to be considered. Below is a list of items that possibly qualify.
Devices requiring small charge
- Fitbit – Fitness Tracker
- iWatch – Smart Watch
- Sonicare – Electric Toothbrush
- GPS
- GoPro – Digital Camera
- Wireless game controller
- Vape pen
- Bluetooth Devices
- Headset
- Bluetooth speaker
- Wireless keyboard and/or mouse
- Rechargeable battery
- Wall clock
- Wireless game controller
I’m going to predict that as the IoT begins to expand from early adoption into the main stream we’ll see a plethora of lower power devices that won’t be directly connected to the grid thus requiring some type of battery power to maintain normal operation in addition to wi-fi or other capability.
Can you think of any low power devices I missed? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll add it to the list.