How many times have you gotten to work only to find out that your mobile telephone is dead? What if you are away on business and forgot the charger?
Why not have mobile phone vendors (or hotels?) offer recharge services?
You walk in with your phone, they tag it, and plug it and you pick it up in an hour just like your drycleaning.
Phone vendors are probably the obvious channel as they must have all the chargers anyways, but I imagine hotels and phone manufacturers could work out a supply arrangement.
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There are thousands of different chargers out there, so it would be very difficult to stock even a limited number of chargers. Also, how do you address liability issues. If you plug in the wrong charger, you may just fry the phone.
Here is an alternative solution for this problem: Standardize phone chargers
At the Whistler/Blackcomb Business Centre, we used to have a selection of chargers so that if a guest came in with a dead phone, we would charge it up for them. I believe there are other places that do this, but it isn't really a service worth advertising.
It might also be useful to have a mobile phone with a removeable chargeable battery so you could carry a couple of spares to plug in in emergency.
Before batteries lasted a day or more, batteries used to modularly slidd off the back of phones.
I think it'd be neat if you could take a partial charge from another person's cellphone, provided they offered and agreed to let you do that. A minute or two connected to their phone would give you some battery time. I've heard of some new fast charging li-ion (or similar) batteries that can take on a partial charge very quickly.
Recharging towers have already been done in the UK, but so far the idea hasn't caught on. They are little towers with just the plugs; you have to bring your own charger.
They have cellphone charging stations in India. Hutch provides them. It's a good idea!