YouTube filmmaker and DIY-engineer Thomas Kim harnessed the power of water to charge his iPhone. Meanwhile, my iPhone battery is dead because the outlet is just out of reach from my bed and ugh. If we competed against one another in some sort of survivalist contest, my only hope of beating Thomas Kim would be to curl up into a ball and hope he’d exhaust himself.

Kin's water wheel generator is made from recycled "plastic bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, [and a] rectifier circuit." The bad news is I don’t know which part is which. The good news is I can still blame my inability to construct a homemade generator on my dog eating the rectifier circuit.