If you haven't seen it, here's a project to take an old pencil sharpener and a tiny motor to build a hand-cranked recharger for the iPod shuffle:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/03/hand_powered_ip.html Kinda useless yet kinda cool at the same time. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>