The phone manufacturer’s concept would harness the energy created as a person moves around, through the use of piezoelectric crystals

You’re at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night’s television. Suddenly, you realise the phone’s battery is about to run out. It’s a very modern disaster, but one that could soon be at an end.

Nokia, the mobile phone makers, are developing a self-charging phone that will use the kinetic energy created when a person moves around to ensure that the mobile never runs out of juice.

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