Yet the efficiency cornucopia is the manual model: You have to turn the crank.
It survived 250, 000 rotations of the crank arm, what would come with about a decade of heavy use.
The crank-handle drives a dynamo through a clever transmission system, and the resulting electrical energy goes straight into a rechargeable battery.
Because some users turn the crank-handle faster and harder than others, a nifty three-stage gearbox and a dynamo based on powerful neodymium-iron-boron magnets is used to ensure that efficiency is largely independent of the torque applied.
President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatisespredicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.
President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatises predicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.
When you press the GT-R's Start button, pumps and lubrication circuits come noisily to life, the forged crank twirls and the aluminum pistons of the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 pick up the rhythm.
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When he had disappeared, she pushed the starter to crank the engine and run the heater full blast.
The headphones also provide a fair amount of isolation, so they'll spare you the need to crank the volume excessively in the likes of subways.
Though Doiron's music contains folk elements appropriate for such a sleepy, romantic backdrop, she also takes the time to crank the volume on an electric guitar.
The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
Indeed, it is France that feels the need to crank up the spluttering Franco-German motor that once propelled Europe forward.
With the advent of cloud computing as an infrastructure choice, the evolution crank is again turning, with companies beginning to investigate the technology options available to them.
When automakers began offering power windows, they just slapped a motor where the hand crank used to go.
That's a little puzzling, considering that stronger-than-expected sales of iPods and Macintosh computers helped the company crank out a 73% rise in earnings.
Since 1912, when Charles Kettering invented the electric self-starter to replace the hand crank on automobiles, General Motors has been a leader in automotive innovation.
Cardiff's lead was deserved for their endeavour and work-rate against a serious promotion contender but Burke's opener was a wake-up call for Albion as the Baggies began to crank up the pressure.
The hand crank charger is more experimental.
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In some ways, the current shift in computing is the equivalent of what happened when cars became easy to use and drivers only had to turn the key instead of having to hand-crank the engines.
The effect should be fleeting, enough to warm up the brain's food neurons, kick-start the taste buds, and crank open the saliva glands.
This uses hydraulic actuators attached to the antiroll bars that crank into action against the natural tendency of the car to flex from side to side in a turn.
If you need one, you go tap-tap at your keyboard, which sends enormous rolling robots to fetch the right bin and crank it up to the circulation desk, allegedly in less than 5 minutes.
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We did our radio show from our farmhouse and my brothers and sisters would do the chores, milk the cows, come in and have breakfast and then my dad would crank the phone on the wall to let the engineer in Springfield, Missouri know that we were ready to do the show.
It took the Internet, though, to really crank up the information pitching machine.
Subsidizing alternative energy, in contrast, is likely to have the perverse effect of causing them to crank up the air-conditioning in that mansion in Nashville.
The problem is that one sequencer operating around the clock takes at least three years to crank out the raw unordered genetic code of just one person.
The problem: A single sequencer operating around the clock would take at least three years to crank out the raw unordered genetic code of just one person.
Early in the project the laptop included a hand-crank generator to power the battery.
The company will crank out fresh iterations of its "classic" iPods for years to come.
Now, when others try to block me, I tune up the negative, crank up Bon Jovi, and keep living my life.
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