Wow! Meet Ann Makosinski, the inventor of a mug that uses heat energy to charge your phone. She won the first prize in her age group at he 2013 Google science Fair and she was recently named the young inventor of the year by Popular Science.
Of all her accomplishments "eDrink" is likely the University of British Columbia student's biggest claim to fame. The secret behind the phone-charging mug is a layer of peltier tiles that use the temperature differences between their two sides to generate electricity. Users can harness this energy by plugging their phones into the USB port on the bottom of the cup and sip their coffee as it charges. eDrink produces enough electricity to charge a phone for 30 minutes at a time.
