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(Virgin.net) Cool Teenager invents hamster-powered cell-phone charger. Fittingly, this story brought to you by Virgin.net   (tech.virgin.net) divider line 65
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szmike 2005-08-25 10:40:35 AM  
Wow. A hamster related link and the submitter managed to avoid a Richard Gere reference.

Kudos.

 
Bildo [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 10:45:20 AM  
Gere was the product tester.

 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 10:51:48 AM  
I'd like to live in a world with massive hamster wheel farms spread out across the countryside, powering the nation's homes and businesses. We'd be like Holland, but with hamsters. And tanks.

 
mostly_harmless 2005-08-25 10:54:43 AM  
Cake Hunter: I'd like to live in a world with massive hamster wheel farms spread out across the countryside

Imagine the constant squeaking though. It'd be hell.

 
mryoop789 [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 10:56:49 AM  
Cake Hunter
I don't know...Those massive hamsters probably poop out gigantic pellets.

 
slobarnuts 2005-08-25 10:58:20 AM  
mryoop789

fertilzer for crops.

the circle of production is complete.

 
Tin Foil Milliner [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 10:59:47 AM  
Oh Mr. Gere, there's a telephone call for you on the Hampster-Phone!

 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 11:07:45 AM  
I probably should've considered the squeaking and the poop before I dumped all my money into Conglomocorp United Petrochemical and Hamster.

 
StrikitRich 2005-08-25 11:56:52 AM  
Wonder how much power my four dachshunds could generate?

 
liljohnmtu 2005-08-25 12:34:23 PM  
It took him 13 months??? Sorry, but it should not take that long to put together a hamster wheel, small generator and voltage regulator. I wonder how needlessly complicated he made it. Tough to say without pic.

\hell yes I'm a nerd

 
Snarfle 2005-08-25 12:34:56 PM  
Cake Hunter: I'd like to live in a world with massive hamster wheel farms

Do you mean massive amounts of hamster wheels? Or massively large hamster wheels? 'Cause I'm kinda digging huge mutant hamsters. Then we wouldn't need the tanks.

 
Teutonic_Knight 2005-08-25 12:34:59 PM  
Giant hamsters?! That is a lot of cedar chip bedding!

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2005-08-25 12:35:01 PM  
Damn, that pic of the x-ray of the cell phone up someone's ass would come in handy here.

 
Dr. Frisbee 2005-08-25 12:35:50 PM  
I don't think you would get a whole lot of energy out of my hamster.

/been dead for 15 years

 
MaritimeGirl [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-08-25 12:36:24 PM  
StrikitRich: Enough to pull a leprechaun's dogsled?

 
StrikitRich 2005-08-25 12:37:46 PM  
Michael Moore on a treadmill would generate how many watts of powers?

 
kimwim 2005-08-25 12:40:10 PM  
I say it's about time we put bushash's constant mountain biking to good use! Gawd knows, he's got doing anything else for us...

 
hexane 2005-08-25 12:40:12 PM  
Did his father smell of elderberries?

 
wylie1 2005-08-25 12:42:08 PM  
can anyone here picture a hampster in the wilde without picturing a predator looking at it like a snack?


~dead hampsters would be good sources of energy...

 
RatOmeter 2005-08-25 12:42:39 PM  
The good folks over at otherpower did this quite a while back (details).

Unfortunately the hamster wound up missing and presumed eaten before they got around to harnessing that power for useful things.

 
ruta [recently expired TotalFark] 2005-08-25 12:44:10 PM  
Dr. Frisbee

I don't think you would get a whole lot of energy out of my hamster.

/been dead for 15 years


Couldn't you stick electrodes in the corpse like one of those potato clocks?

 
Maxor 2005-08-25 12:44:39 PM  
You can't hardly expect hampsters to be a steady powersupply they need to use the rest room and eat and aren't really reliabl in going to the wheel.

Convicts on the other hand we could work in 8 hour shifts.
They wouldn't need an exercise room then either. No more umping iron just got pump the genorator.

Would probably get sued for cruel and unusual though.

 
Monty Cantsin 2005-08-25 12:45:35 PM  
Cake Hunter
We'd be like Holland, but with hamsters.

But that is Holland. They don't call their largest city Hamsterdam for nothing.

 
lordargent 2005-08-25 12:46:01 PM  
Gis for "virgin net"



ewww

 
rccollins 2005-08-25 12:46:08 PM  
StrikitRich

Problem is that Michael Moore needs an endless food supply.

--dan

 
Dr. Frisbee 2005-08-25 12:46:31 PM  
Couldn't you stick electrodes in the corpse like one of those potato clocks?

I guess you could. Make the little guy pay me back for all the food he ate!

However at this time I doubt he's anything but bones. Maybe if I placed his corpse next to a live hamser with a sign "run or suffer the consequences" I could get the little guy to run like hell!

 
lordargent 2005-08-25 12:46:37 PM  
Also on a GIS for "virgin net"

mmmmmm


 
HamsterBoy 2005-08-25 12:49:13 PM  
What? What happened?

 
autopsybeverage 2005-08-25 12:51:47 PM  
In regards to the headline, if you ask the hamster, the teen is no virgin...

Dammit, now I just feel gross.

 
wanderingjew 2005-08-25 12:52:26 PM  
Hamster powered electronic devices can be quite efficent. The basic hamster-and-wheel design is very straightforward, too. For maximum efficency, though, one must burn the hamsters. The gasses given off by the burning hamsters spin turbines that power generators.

It's all hamsters and wheels...

 
NakedApe 2005-08-25 12:54:34 PM  
Before batteries took over there were self-pleasuring powered watches (called self winding by the marketeers).

 
Bo 2005-08-25 12:56:42 PM  
Dr. Frisbee

I don't think you would get a whole lot of energy out of my hamster.

/been dead for 15 years


you just haven't waited long enough yet!

/future oil
//a tiny amount of future oil
///making you a future slightly richer man
////in a few million years
/////just wanted to round out the slashies.

 
Ratica 2005-08-25 12:57:20 PM  
Next, people will want hampster powered flame throwers.

 
zvoidx 2005-08-25 12:57:54 PM  

The number you are trying to reach, 555-1857, is temporarily unavailable...

 
moltov 2005-08-25 12:59:53 PM  
Dude, that story provides absolutely no farking information, and is absolutely worthless without pics.

Fark personals girl today is absolutely the hottest I've ever seen here. ev4r.

 
dubdub 2005-08-25 01:02:04 PM  
hamsters are fine and all.
but why are there no 'midget on stilts' pictures on the internet?? i thought this was what the internet was made for

 
Trail Mix 2005-08-25 01:04:21 PM  
Ultrapeepi unavailable for comment.

 
blahpers 2005-08-25 01:06:08 PM  
nbrfwhoooo:

Harvey, Harvey, Harvey the Wonder Hamster

Made my day.

 
KnaveOfSpades 2005-08-25 01:06:45 PM  
wylie1
can anyone here picture a hampster in the wilde without picturing a predator looking at it like a snack?

I had a friend who released a hampster into the wild once...In the middle of a field, on a big bowl of hampster food.

 
lomans 2005-08-25 01:07:37 PM  
L01z @ BXRWXR

 
krazydiamond 2005-08-25 01:08:08 PM  
Worst moment of my life:

Going to shut the door to the basement at 2am to get rid of that god damn noise from the hampster running on his wheel...finding out the door was shut, and that was the squeaking of the wheels on my roommates bed since his girlfriend was spending the night!

I could never understand the hampster as a pet craze. They're just farking rodents. I'm glad someone found a use for them!

Cake Hunter

I probably should've considered the squeaking and the poop before I dumped all my money into Conglomocorp United Petrochemical and Hamster.

Fark you man! Now I've gotta explain to my boss why I'm laughing so hard there's tears on my desk!

 
Hawley Griffin 2005-08-25 01:15:26 PM  
Not impressed.

Call me when they invent a cell phone powered hamster charger!

 
wh0mprat 2005-08-25 01:15:55 PM  
it's hamster!

hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster! hamster!

Thank you for your time.

 
Lame Name Shame 2005-08-25 01:20:31 PM  
So, what's that in horsepower?

 
zvoidx 2005-08-25 01:24:03 PM  
Lame Name Shame: So, what's that in horsepower?

'bout a hoof.

 
Tax Boy 2005-08-25 01:28:37 PM  


I shall not permit Boo the Miniature Giant Space Hamster to participate in such a vile scheme!

 
Clavis 2005-08-25 01:30:07 PM  



/got nothin'

 
mellanman 2005-08-25 01:30:23 PM  
and this was the hamster's response to being forced to power a cell phone

 
Clavis 2005-08-25 01:31:10 PM  
Our troop level problems are over. Hamsters are doing it for themselves!


 
olbeal 2005-08-25 01:36:13 PM  
Took him 13 months to make this?? He better hire a second shift (being that hamsters only live for 24 months.)

 
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