Portable fuel cell generator: Green and powerful

The first portable fuel cell charger.

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I am not a film critic, but I find Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's recent action movie "Knight and Day" quite a snooze, for the most part. Spoiler alert: There's one thing I like about the movie, however, and it's the idea of the "Zephyr," a perpetual battery about the size of a regular AA that has enough power to run a small city, forever.
Now powering a small city forever with a tiny battery is quite an ambition and will take at least until 2020 to get (I am an optimist). For now, I'd be happy to have something portable that can power my iPhone for a long time, conveniently and cheaply. And the good news is I have one here, called the Mobion Fuel Cell Generator from MTI Micro. If things go as planned, the rest of you will be able to buy one or something similar by sometime next year.


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