This dynamo-powered flashlight… it vibrates?

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he’d like you to read: The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge | Generation i | Surveillant Society | Choose Two | Frame Wars | The User’s Manifesto | Our Great Sin His personal website is coldewey.cc. → Learn More


In the distant future, I envision a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Cannibalism and harsh justice are present in equal amounts, and the only thing more prized than bullets… is batteries. In this blasted landscape, the only relief afforded the dwindling survivors — hungry, tired, and irradiated — is found in a small shack hidden between the painted cliffs of the former Dakotas.

There, the weary travelers queue for hours as the lone masseuse attends to each of them in turn. No one cuts, no one complains of the wait. How can the massager the masseuse wields can continue to buzz this many years after the fall of mankind, no one knows. It must be a miracle.

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