London converts abandoned telephone booth into solar cell phone charging station

With the advent of the era of mobile communications, the majority of fixed-line phones have been replaced by mobile phones. This is especially true in developed countries, where telephone booths in many cities have largely been discarded and only seen on film and television.

But London now finds a new use for nearly 8,000 of its disused phone booths-a solar charging station for mobile phones. According to the BBC, the first 6 phone booths have been unveiled this week in Tottenham.

These telephone booths have undergone a unified transformation, the exterior has been painted green, while the top of the installation of 86 cm solar panels. In a telephone booth is a wide range of charging stations, which can be used to charge different types of mobile phones. The solar charging booth can charge up to 100 handsets a day and can lift the electricity by 20% in 20 minutes.

Charging station will be open to the public free of charge, but mobile phone users in the process of charging must see installed in the phone booth inside a screen to provide advertising, there are Uber, Tinder and other companies signed advertising. In order to prevent damage, the advertising screen to take the reinforcement measures, and at night the phone booth will be locked.

The idea was that two student entrepreneurs at the London School of Economics Harold Craston and Kirsty Kenny. Craston went to school every day to go through the abandoned telephone booth, but with many other people through the phone booth is not the same, over time he began to wonder why they should be abandoned there. There has been a desire to convert telephone booths into small libraries or medical equipment storage rooms, but their transformation is clearly more practical.

The idea won the new Entrepreneur Award at the London School of Economics this year and won second place in the London Mayor's Low-carbon Entrepreneur Award. According to two founders, at present, about 6 people use the charging telephone booth every hour.

Smartphone battery life has been a long-standing problem. The emergence of such charging booths will undoubtedly bring great convenience to the public. Of course, the premise is high deployment rate, otherwise, or with the charger with a reliable point.