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January 8th, 2010, 06:40
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What do you get when you cross an Energizer EnergiToGo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/energitogo) portable charger with a hand crank? If you answered the Yogen Charger for Life, you'd be correct. Easy Energy is demoing the battery-less battery charger, and sadly for us, it didn't work exactly as advertised. While the other demo models seemed to be working without a hitch, when we started pulling the rip cord, instead of getting a lightning bolt indicating that our BlackBerry Tour was charging, we got a reboot. It's probably an isolated incident, as every other device we tried worked, but we'd be doing you, our trusted reader, a disservice if we didn't let you know.
Gallery: Yogen Charger for Life hands-on (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/)
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Yogen's ripcord-powered portable charger hands-on (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/yogens-ripcord-powered-portable-charger-hands-on/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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What do you get when you cross an Energizer EnergiToGo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/energitogo) portable charger with a hand crank? If you answered the Yogen Charger for Life, you'd be correct. Easy Energy is demoing the battery-less battery charger, and sadly for us, it didn't work exactly as advertised. While the other demo models seemed to be working without a hitch, when we started pulling the rip cord, instead of getting a lightning bolt indicating that our BlackBerry Tour was charging, we got a reboot. It's probably an isolated incident, as every other device we tried worked, but we'd be doing you, our trusted reader, a disservice if we didn't let you know.
Gallery: Yogen Charger for Life hands-on (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/2010-01-07-yogen-1_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/2596609/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/2010-01-07-yogen-2_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/2596610/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/2010-01-07-yogen-3_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/2596611/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/2010-01-07-yogen-4_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/2596612/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/2010-01-07-yogen-5_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/yogen-charger-for-life-hands-on/2596613/)
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