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Pastimes : From A to Zeev" -- SI Sacks Zeev -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Juster who wrote (554)	12/6/1998 2:25:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 708

Juster, Zeev answered your post using my post. I'am sure you saw it. I know Zeev will not get mad or take offense if one like I does not agree with him. Zeev knows stuff, and have been places in this type of investment thoughts, that I can not even begin to understand. So my thoughts here may be clearer, eventho emptier might be more accurate, to see a good future investment in this wind up energy. Not the camping or flashlight or radio hardware, but I remember the man and wife I visit that has a 4 year old boy. Lots of toys and games run by batteries. Eventho lots of rechargable batteries, and even if the cost of electricity is only 10% of a new regular battery to recharge, I remember the father getting upset with his son because the boy would play the toy or game "flat-out" and quickly drain the battery. So for the father, the task of recharging batteries was a thing he found irritating. With wife and husband both working, even the little small jobs to do on top of "not having enough time", can strain people. So my prediction, toys and games, all electric power generated by the little boys and girls cranking a little hand crank. No batteries. Bet if parents had choice between battery or crank version, the hand powered one would be choosen 9 out of 10 times. Identify the company that will make this hand power version in a small package for toys and games. The one a big toy company selects as its power source will be the winner. I would guess that the intelligent and solor cell version not needed. Just raw crank and power. Little boys and girls can turn the handle all day long with no problem. Zeev is right that any patent would be more on the added on technology to the electric generator. The basic has been around long time, the wire coils cutting thru the magnetic fields. Any small motor company could adjust and reverse the electric to power, to, power to electric. Doug