Eco Factor: Human-powered concept radio and flashlight.
Most eco-friendly music players and radios carry either a solar charger which doesn’t work indoors or a hand crank that’s just too hard to use. Product designer Luke Johnson thinks that he can use the design of something as common as a toy car, to develop a radio and a flashlight that can be powered by motion. Dubbed the FlareStorm, the product noticeably shifts both the visual and functional paradigms of human-powered emergency radios.
The concept products supports three different ways of charging – Rotating the dynamo connected to the front wheel axle, rotating the front wheel by index finger placed in cups and plugging it into a normal wall socket.
The radio is designed to carry a clock with alarm function, radio with four soft buttons to change modes, battery power indicator, a 3” cone speaker and a six LED flashlight whose intensity can be varied by altering the power modes.
