This design concept showed up on Yanko Design. I was taken not only with its simplicity bt worth its utility as well. Yes there are power concerns to take into consideration and you can only chain so many things in a row before the 5 volts devices are expecting to be there just can handle the load. But the simple and quiet brilliance of the design shines through.

I hate traveling and not being able to plug what I need to in, this device would solve that in a piecemeal fashion what a USB hub could solve for a larger set of devices. And while yes its only a concept at this point, and it may never make it anywhere i still like looking at these awesome and simple designs.

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One of the biggest buzzwords lately is Green Tech. But the problem with generating power is that quite frankly its a bit hard to do. Solar energy is by far the most talked about alternative energy source but Solar energy is operating at around 20 % efficiency. That means for every 10 units of energy collected by the panel you get 2 usable portions out.

Wind energy is a lot more efficient, the only problem being that its much harder to find a sustainable wind source than a sunny day. Portable wind generators, provided they don’t need a ton of sustained wind would be a huge boon to emerging societies, relief work in remote locations or just being awesome all by your lonesome and blogging on a mountaintop.

While just a concept piece the Eolic looks like it might have a horse in that race. Carbon Fibre and a small footprint could make this an interesting design to watch, and it looks just plain awesome, lets admit it.

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