This is certainly a useful looking device, especially for campers/hikers/etc. Personally, I'd like to see this with an integrated solar panel just so it could be passively charging during the day and the crank for use during the night. We are becoming so 'addicted' to our electronic devices that even while roughing it we are possibly carring GPS units, cell phones (with bluetooth headsets), PDAs, MP3 players, gameboys, radios, etc.
The english article is linked
hereand the original in Japanese is
here
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