The four-legged cell phone charger

Peter Ash is the brains behind his new hamster-powered cell phone charging device. His fluffy little pet, "Simon," however, did all the legwork.

The 16-year-old student from Somerset, England just knew the three to four hours Simon spent each night in his exercise wheel had to be good for something other than keeping his sister awake, he told the BBC. So as part of his coursework for his General Certificate of Secondary Education, the budding engineer attached a generator to the wheel and now gets 30 minutes of talk time for every two minutes Elvis takes a spin.

Just think of the energy produced by the countless treadmill and stationary bicycle users across the world each day?

[Roseroberta]

Do you realize that the kid only got a C grade for the project? I wonder what you had to do to get an A. Compare that to the U.S.A.