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DIY Battery-free Flashlight
Posted September 11, 2010 by Chris
Sure you can buy one of those battery-free flashlights in the store, but why bother when you can easily make your own! This project goes through how commercial manufacturers build their flashlights and how you can make your own, but with better quality.
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September 16th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
I I have the same experience as the author, I got one flashlight in the local store, and found out that my battery-free flashlight got a “battery” inside:)
January 3rd, 2011 at 10:32 am
Skype is already rumored to personal ~10% marketshare of the worldwide international telephone site visitors. The Skype team knew how to design things right…there had been no less than 15 providers prior to Skype that offered VOIP based desktop-to-desktop app based calling. Now they have come up with one of the most rapidly proliferating apps on wifi connected smart mobile devices – what else a telephone app! Iphone, blackberry as well as ITouch. Besides e-mail, voice and video, desktop conferencing is also taking off, for work and play.