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Qualcomm lets Bug charge a Snapdragon Smartphone

The Bug Circus Generator video from Qualcomm goes viral

Oct 20 2011, 7:40am CDT | by

Qualcomm lets Bug charge a Snapdragon Smartphone
 
 
 

Qualcomm published a pretty cool video a week ago called The Bug Circus Generator. It shows various bugs on little machines generating power to charge a SnapDragon based smartphone. The start makes a praying mantis on a unicycle. There are many other bugs and also a scorpion at work until the battery of the snapdragon phone is fully charged. Qualcomm wants to get across how power efficient SnapDragon CPUs are. We got it now. Over 648,000 people have watched the viral video already. If you have not seen it watch it now below.

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