CES 2009: Hymini Debuts New Renewable Energy Products (Video)
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California 
on 01. 9.09
Hymini has the greenest-looking booth that I've seen so far at CES, and it's because they are super serious about alternative energy. They've debuted a family of alternative energy chargers, and a few more really cool items are featured at their cube.
Read on for a video explaining their new ways to charge gadgets via bike, and their Polli-Bricks.
The new family consists of the Hymini wind and minisolar chargers, which we're familiar with, a minihandcrank, and a bike dynamo hub converter. Basically, you can rig your bike to capture kinetic, wind and solar energy to charge your gadgets. But you can now also charge up your laptop with a stationary bike set-up.
They also have some cool building blocks that are made of recycled plastic bottles and they're...um...plastic bottles. They're very strong, and have a UV coating. And, a building made of them is already in production.
*Note: You can click through to YouTube to view the videos in high quality format*
Arthur Huang explains the Hymini bike hub charger, and their recycled plastic bottle building blocks.
He also explains Hymini's bike-based laptop charger.
The cool items at the booth didn't stop here. They also have a solar-powered post card, and a solar powered light that you can screw a plastic bottle onto as a unique lamp shade, putting a simple twist (har har) onto reuse.
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Bicycle based chargers are stupid. If you want to bike to save the environment then buy a bike and use it, on the streets, to get around your city. The 100 watts that a normal, out of shape, American produces on a bicycle can get them around town but it just makes us look insane when you try to power your laptop with it.
Ride your bike, sell your car, buy solar panels, but forget this thing.
crhilton well some of us live in very unfriendly places for bikes. these bike generators would let us get excersise and actually get power out of that excsersise.
By me if i used a bike to go to vwork i would get run over by some soccer mom in an escalade who is on their cell phone and not paying attention to the road.
The roads i have to use to go to work dont have bicycle lanes or even sidewalks
I totally agree with majortom1981, it's true, not everyone lives in a bicycle friendly environment.
BUT, most importantly is that I believe that miniwiz is not making the bicycle stand as their product, but more of a demonstration of what is possible and perhaps future plans of market entry. The reason why I believe it's not one of their core products is because it's not even mentioned on their website!
Regardless, they show-cased 4 new product lines that I thought were all wonderful! I wish them the best!