Charge Your iPod Using An Onion

Instead of buying a sugar-powered battery pack from Sony, you could make your own sugar battery at home. Here is an instructional video on how to charge your iPod (something everyone seems to want to do, these days) using some sort of sports drink (as long as it has electrolytes in it) and a white onion.

Poke a hole in the onion to let more liquid in. Soak the onion in about 2 cups of the sports drink, until at least one cup has been absorbed by the vegetable. Who knew onions were capable of absorbing so much fluid? Once this step is done, dry the onion off and stick your USB cord into its side. What effect this has on the USB itself, and whether it can ever be plugged into a conventional port again, I have no idea. But, sure enough, the iPod turns on and begins charging— and as long as the onion has soaked up enough fluid, you can go for about 20 minutes!
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hahaha thats Fen amazing!!!

i herd things about potatos aloso

Oh wow! That’s fantastic. This would probably be a hard thing to try to get to catch on though but what a cool idea. I’ve heard that this could be done but never see a tutorial for it.

I had heard about this also but honestly never really believed it. Thanks for sharing this with us. I will have to show this to my husband because he didn’t believe it either.

Ok, this is too cool! Something I would of never thought of doing. I am sending this link to my husband, he loves stuff like this.

Has anyone actually tried it? Be interesting to know if it has an effect on the USB connection itself, after all you can’t always use an onion!

Way back when you were able to buy a little science project that made a potato power a little crystal radio, I remember my brother had one. Way cool!

If my memory serves me well, I recall that Edmund Electronics used to sell an LCD clock that was powered by a couple of potatoes. I don’t believe that you had to do anything special to prep the spuds, you just plugged in the electrodes and frankentater worked (no offense to my friend tater03)!

LOL Molly.. frankentater..

So nobody knows if this works then. For some strange reason i am not tempted to try it out on my ipod…

I don’t have an iPod and the mp3 I runs on one AAA battery. If I had an iPod I would seriously try it just as long as I had a back up USB.

Thats the problem for me Ranger, I don’t have a backup usb cable, or I would try it.

Wow that is definately very cool. I’ll make sure to tell all of my friends about this too!

Now every time I am in the kitchen peeling onions for a meal I can’t stop thinking about charging with onions, and then my imagination starts to wander. How many onions would it take to charge a hybrid car? Who could peel that many onions, who could withstand the tears of that many onions…well, you get my drift. Speaking of onions:p, here’s a good trick to get the onion smell off your hands after peeling and/or chopping, take one of your butter knives, turn on your tap and run the knife all over your hands while under the tap, and it will take care of the onion smell. Don’t know why it works, but it does.
Now I really must get onions off my mind!!!