At Glastonbury (wikipedia), the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, Orange is trialling a dance-powered phone charger and a solar- and wind-powered charging tent.
Not to be outdone, the UK’s O2 is showcasing its new pedal-powered charger at the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park in London from 3 to 6 July 2008.
The company is letting people charge up their mobiles by pedalling on its BMX, Chopper and racer-style bicycles. Since there aren’t many plug sockets in the park it could be your only option.
Posting on DailyWireless may be light this week as we’re off to Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, expecting 100K+ visitors over the next 5 days.
Mike Boyd provided the festival with free WiFi — no strings attached — by using Meraki Outdoor nodes fed by Mobile WiMAX. A Motorola CPEi 150 WiMAX modem provides the backhaul. Here’s more on Mike’s setup. Portland is a beta test site for Clearwire, which expects to have some 300 cell towers armed and ready this fall.
Mike installed a 2 Gig Eye-Fi card to automatically post pictures from his camera at the concert. Here’s his photostream. There’s not much yet since the concert doesn’t start until Thursday. He says it works great.
In related news, On-Communications & BT Openzone provided Wi-Fi at the World Cycling Championships in Manchester earlier this year. Today they announced a WiMAX thrust with Airspan.
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