Solar power
SolarStrap – wearable solar power module
Finland based Suntrica is a young company exploring the possibilities of thin, lightweight solar panels as wearable add-on solution for clothing and bags.
An interesting idea as such self-containing add-on module allows to quickly and easily move it from one bag to another, leave it at home when no sun is shining.
Personally I like the integration [...]
Interactive Wear e-Textile designer kit
I was able to talk during my TechTextil visit in frankfurt with Jürgen Thalmayer from Interactive Wear about the recent launch of their e-Textile designer kit.
Interactive Wear is not planning at this moment to open a online store on their Website. Orders for a designer kit can be made by sending an email with your [...]
Powerbrella – thin, flexible Solar power
Solar textiles might still be a bit far away but flexible, thin film solar panel material like Konarka a leader in the flexible solar film market is developing, provide a option to integrate solar power charging function into clothing and bags.
A smart and environmentally interesting product, the Powerbrella™ is the latest development Konarka is exploring [...]
Wearable Sun Power from Konarka
Looking forward to long days with lot of sunshine made me check out what’s up in the research kitchen regarding wearable solar technology, speak flexible and hopefully lower cost solar panels.
My most promising find: Konarka, one of the hot favorites in the field of wearable solar power working on Power Plastic® that converts light to [...]
Day and Night solar power
Researchers at INL (Idaho National Laboratory), along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero from the University of Missouri, are developing a way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has [...]
Solar Textiles, the next step to more eco friendly fashion
The Textile International Forum and Exhibition we posted about a few days ago introduced another revolutionary textile technology: the Solar Textile after showing us the Textile Oven.
The Solar Power Textile is foldable and more suitable for integration into clothing than flexible solar panels used at the moment in many bags.
Having the softness of textiles, the [...]
Solar power invades the battle field
Solar power is taking over the battle field after being one of the hottest items in all kind of bags this year.
The Australian army is testing new solar cell technology made from a secret compound and can produce hours of low-level energy to power radios, night-vision goggles, communications equipment and sensors to detect enemy positions.
The [...]
Eco-fashion with a touch of Solar technology
During my regular scan of companies we have posted about in the past, I discovered an update on Noon Solar’s website. Actually, their Website is under construction but it shows a new layout (image on the right cut out of their new site) and most important, the announcement that the new Solar Bag collection will [...]
Solar power for Shutterbugs
Hobby photographer and professionals alike have next to their power hungry cameras plenty of other gear in their camera bags for making the perfect shot to get famous.
Eclipse Solar Gear has a new camera bag that gives power to the Shutterbugs among our readers, the Ion Camera/Video Gear Bag.
Next to the Ion Camera/Video Gear Bag, [...]
What’s in your bag?
Asking: “What is in your Bag?” seems to be a trend judging on the many blogs that have this line as topic.
For us the answer is: Solar Power and other other stuff of course. Having solar power in the bag is fairly easy nowadays.
You can either make a solar bag yourself or get one of [...]
