Charge Your iPod, Phone and Other Gadgets with Yo-Yo Power

While solar powered chargers are great for giving your gadgets a quick charge when you’re away from a plug, what do you do if you’re inside, or the sun isn’t shining, when you run out of juice? Easy Energy has a solution for that situation: the YoGen, a small yo-yo inspired generator.

By pulling on a string attached to its body, the handheld YoGen generates up to five watts of clean energy to charge your device via an included connector. While it will probably get rather repetitive after a few minutes, on the plus side, you might be able to burn some calories and build some forearm muscle in the process.

Easy Energy claims that the YoGen has a better ratio of energy input to energy output of any similar charger on the market, but have yet to announce just how many pulls it will take to charge a device. At a price of $39.99, it’s not exactly cheap, but could be just the thing for a quick charge while away from home.

The YoGen is available to preorder for a release date of November 15^th from the Easy Energy store now.

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