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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday July 11 2015, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the i-have-the-power dept.

Man's hierarchy of needs has changed:

A man attending a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God decided that he needed a little more juice on his iPhone—just before the play started. So, because any outlet is fair game when your battery icon is flashing red, he climbed up onto the stage and plugged his phone into a prop wall with a prop outlet and walked away. Of course, the outlet—like the wall—was fake.

According to the New York Post, the crew had to stop the pre-show music and make an announcement to the audience that that sort of thing isn't allowed. One audience member copped to "loudly heckling the idiot" when the ushers removed the phone and asked him to take it back.

After Hurricane Sandy legions of iPhone and other smart phone owners camped out in the Long Island malls, recharging at outlets normally used for floor waxers. What's the most desperate scene of Dying Battery Panic Syndrome you've witnessed?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @06:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @06:17AM (#208080)

    Looks like there are a bunch of them and a few with built in radios and flashlights.

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hand+cranked+usb [amazon.com]

    As to wither they work or not...

  • (Score: 2) by number6 on Sunday July 12 2015, @04:11PM

    by number6 (1831) on Sunday July 12 2015, @04:11PM (#208164) Journal

    The stuff at Amazon look like generic 'Made in China' mass-produced low-end no-spec disposable toys.
    Here is a company which makes quality portable charging devices for the discerning prosumer: https://www.powertraveller.com/ [powertraveller.com]

    Apart from the 'personal accessory' aspect, another thing that was on my mind was the incorporation of such technology as common urban utilities.
    For example wired street telephones; we replace the currently installed phones with new models which also have a docking port for a cell phone with military-grade hand-crank and electronics for charging it.
    We could subsidize such utilities by state taxes; these devices serve a common usefulness for everybody living in major cities such as New York, L.A., London, Paris etc.
    We could also have cheaper versions of these utilities placed in the foyers of cinema houses, train stations and other commercial locations.