Water-Powered Motorola SLVR L7 Prototype

Many companies are trying to go green by developing products that rely less on conventional sources of energy and rely more on renewable resources. Motorola has partnered up with Angstrom Power and the net result is a Motorola SLVR L7 cell phone that actually gets its power straight from the water tap.

Well, the connection isn't quite as direct as that. It's not like you can plug your phone into the kitchen sink and get all juiced up.

Instead, the cell phone prototype is powered by hydrogen. The other half of the equation is a desktop fueling station that produces hydrogen from water, storing the particles in a metal hydride storage. The hydrogen molecules are then passed through a fuel cell membrane which strips the electrons to power the phone.

By relying on water as an energy source, this could prove to be one of the most environmentally friendly handsets on the planet today. The question that remains, however, is what powers the desktop fueling station?

[via MobileMag]

Motorola Quietly Launches Six SLVR Wannabes

The rest of the mobile phone industry may be scrambling to create iPhone clones and handsets with multi-megapixel cameras, but Motorola doesn't want to get mixed up in that whole mess.

Apparently, the big M doesn't want to bother with hitting up the high-end all that much these days, but Motorola has just revealed six new budget candybars.

There was no press release announcing the launch, so you've got to wonder if Motorola themselves are even interested in these clearly entry-level handsets. There's no indication in terms of features and specifications, but you've got to assume that these SLVR-like phones will be pretty basic. We do have the model numbers though: W206, W213, W156, W160, W175 and W180.

Interestingly, two of them have monochrome displays. Like, who does that anymore?