A British Firm has created what is possibly the first wind up mobile phone, yep you heard me in order to make a call you’ll have to get those muscles flexing! It’s still in the prototype stage at the moment but the device, named Vertus is scheduled for release sometime next year.

The company behind the Vertus think the concept would be ideal for countries such as India and Africa, where they have very good mobile coverage but poor power supplies. TCL, the brains behind the design have already successfully produced wind up torches and wind up radios, they say one minute of cranking will provide up to four minutes of talk time. What’s more, as long as the mobile stays in the sunlight, you’ll never run out of power, thanks to the solar panel backing.

There are no details about specs just yet, somehow I can’t imagine it will be the smartphone of the future, but software aside this looks like it could be a step in the right direction for the eco-conscious among us.