14 DAY TRIAL // Old-generation iPhone models are known to discharge very quickly when the user watches a video, surfs the web, or plays games for extended amounts of time. Sometimes, spending just an hour with a graphically intense video game will drain more than half of the phone’s battery. In some cases, the phone’s juice is completely drained in under two hours.
To solve this problem, an expert in interior and exterior design going by the name of Tjeerd Veenhoven has come up with an ingenious solution for charging his iPhone on the go.
Veenhoven has designed a case that encapsulates a modified motor-based PC cooler which acts as an “energy wind fan”.
“I for one charge my phone every day and am still amazed how short its power lasts,” the Dutch tinkerer explains on his blog.
“Quite often I run out of juice in the middle of the day, for these moments I came up with the Ifan.”
Described as a “hardware App,” the solution comprises a soft rubber skin and an “energy wind fan,” the inventor notes.
“Just slide it around your Iphone and it will charge everytime [sic] the wind blows.”
Veenhoven goes to elaborate that Appe’s iPhone “relies on high tech battery power and power management which you charge almost every day in your outlet in just half an hour.”
In his tests, it took the iPhone about 6 hours to reach a full charge, “rather long I think… but it works,” the proud inventor states.
“I can shave off many charging hours by redesigning the fan blades, making it more efficient in catching the wind while sun bathing at the beach, doing walking trips in the mountains or just holding it outside your car window while driving along,” the designer adds.
Tjeerd Veenhoven doesn’t say anything about mass producing the gadget, should there be demand for such a charging solution.