Hand Crank Power, Common Electronics You Can Power Yourself

Cell Phones, flashlights, music players?things like these are practically necessities in the 21st century. Just about everyone has them, yet they suck up electricity, drain batteries, and create waste. And each seems such a trivial contributor to energy consumption that we might not notice that using all our gadgets adds up to a heftier impact on the environment (and our electric bills). They even suck up phantom power when we forget to unplug them.

So how about a hands-on solution? These three gadgets can effectively do the job of some of your wall-charged or battery operated electronics with a turn of a crank subbing in for electrical drain.