{"id":25801,"date":"2012-07-13T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25801"},"modified":"2012-07-13T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:25:32","slug":"how-to-charge-your-mobile-the-manly-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/how-to-charge-your-mobile-the-manly-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How to charge your mobile the manly way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25802\" title=\"2c3Z7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2c3Z7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2c3Z7.jpeg 1728w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2c3Z7-282x300.jpeg 282w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2c3Z7-423x450.jpeg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px; line-height:16px;\">User ChubbySicilianKid over on Reddit&#8217;s \/r\/funny posted the above picture, showing how his dad charges his mobile phone. It looks like a battery charger designed for car batteries, attached to a a cigarette lighter adapter with clips, then converted to micro USB. Pretty crazy looking, but it actually works and isn&#8217;t even dangerous &#8211; at each step along the way, the converters do their job well and by the time it gets to the phone it&#8217;s just the same as any other power source.<\/p>\n<p>Have you got any interesting DIY-style hacks for your mobiles? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WTF\/comments\/wgcie\/how_my_dad_charges_his_cell_phone\/\">Reddit.com<\/a><\/div>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User ChubbySicilianKid over on Reddit&#8217;s \/r\/funny posted the above picture, showing how his dad charges his mobile phone. It looks like a battery charger designed for car batteries, attached to a a cigarette lighter adapter with clips, then converted to micro USB. Pretty crazy looking, but it actually works and isn&#8217;t even dangerous &#8211; at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25809,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions\/25809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}