Credit: YouTube/SqueezTL;DRA Europe-based company has built a tiny and fully private AI chatbot known as CrankGPT.Unlike conventional AI chatbots, CrankGPT is powered entirely by a hand crank.The company is currently accepting requests to demonstrate the gadget, though you can’t buy one yet.Whether it’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or some other big-tech chatbot, these tools have become an inseparable part of modern life. As user demand for chatbots grows, so does the need for more natural resources. A Europe-based company, Squeez Labs, has now revealed a chatbot concept that aims to make generative AI cost-effective and less resource-intensive, using a simple hand crank.Cleverly named CrankGPT, this little box has no battery and relies entirely on a crank to generate power. To put it simply, it behaves like a conventional chatbot but is powered entirely by turning the crank. Inside this small box is a 20W hand-crank generator powered by a stock Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM (via Gizmodo).