Solar Power Cart

Studio 360
The World
Mouna Andraos has been fascinated by street vendors since her childhood in Lebanon.   She's an artist and designer with no engineering background, but she has created a working portable street generator that uses a crank and a solar cell to charge cell phones and laptops.   Ada Lee Halofsky hit the New York City streets with Andraos to see Power Cart in action. (Originally aired: April 18, 2008)                               Slideshow: See how the power cart works
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