An Interesting Idea from France: Phone Charging Lockers

Back when we could go to bars and cafes, it was common to see a pile of customers' phones behind the counter, all being charged as a courtesy. France-based café owner Sébastien Cardi did this for his customers--and one day accidentally spilled coffee on a customer's phone. In search of a way to provide charging service without being responsible for customers' phones, he subsequently developed Welock. Welock is a wall- or bollard-mounted system of small charging lockers. The idea is that...