The energy in one Chuck Norris roundhouse kick is enough to power China for a year. Chuck Norris doesn't need a mobile phone. His only form of communication is pain. At the CES this year, RCA took great pains to keep Chuck Norris away from the Airnergy stand just in case the power from from one of his stares overcharged the device and caused irrepairable damage.

In the blue corner we have the idiots, in the red corner the educated people... let the debate begin. There is no debate. It like debating whether the world is flat. We already know the answer... sometimes it just takes a while for the rest to catch up. Oh and just in case you fall in the idiot camp, this product is a load of bull.

I look at it like this... There's no doubt it can harvest "some" energy but it is the equivalent of trying to harvest a field with a sickle when you're trying to feed China and what you really need is a combine harvester.

I'm sure that the device has the ability to be charged manually i.e. they probably plugged it into a USB port first to charge the internal battery and then used that to charge the blackberry. Either that or they used their time machine (displayed on the next stand) to transport an airnergy device (+ 100 wifi routers) back in time to 1973 in order to give it enough time to charge for the 2009 CES.

What you have to understand from that is that firstly: their current prototype can harvest about 3 - 5mW under optimal conditions so even if it sat collecting energy for a whole year then it would only be able to collect less than $0.01 of electricity. Secondly a smartphone such as a Blackberry uses at least 50x that amount of energy with moderate use. SO as a standalone device it will never EVER pay for itself either in money saved or energy saved. As an integrated device in a handset it has slightly more promise if in the future it is able to collect 20 - 40mW and device power consumption has been reduced significantly. Even so it will still only ever be good for topping up devices...

...applause. Thank you for putting all those cretins trying to use Tesla as an argument in their place! Tesla was a genius. RCA are marketeers trying to make a fast buck.