Solar charging phone pouch – Nokia style
I found a photo on Flickr from blogger Yuhui showing a very elegant looking Nokia concept of a solar charging phone pouch he has seen during his visit to the Nokia Open Lab 2008 event last month.
Although I couldn’t find more specific information about this solar power pouch, I still want to share it as [...]
Voltaic Generator Solar briefcase - are we there now?
It’s eight month since Voltaic announced the ambitious Generator Bag the should be able to supply even notebooks with enough power from the sun to run smoothly of the grid.
The 17 watt of power generation would be the most powerful solar bag on the market and I really would like to see if this is [...]
Smart designed Solar power Clothing
Solar jackets and bags are hot items, they are in line with our increased environmental awareness and can give us the extra hour of talk time or Net surfing we need so baldly for our digital life.
Integrating solar cells into clothing or bags can be a style challenge as those solar cells come mostly in [...]
Solar Buddy bag from Sakku
Solar bag manufacturer Sakku from Switzerland has added a new model to their Solar bag range called ‘Buddy’.
This little sunshine Buddy comes in many rainbow colors to match the bright and sunny mood of summer time. As in their previous solar bags, Sakku uses again recycled materials for the bags, offering 100% environmentally sound power/fashion [...]
Voltaic Generator selling now?
The much hyped Voltaic Generator Laptop bag, capable of delivering enough solar power to drive a laptop, seems to have a very slow start in hitting the stores.
It’s been a very long time now that we see the ‘Shipping Soon’ message on Voltaic’s Website and although solar cells do not need summer time to work, [...]
Hot Solar Totes from Noon
The hottest Solar bags on the planet come from Noon Solar. Bold statement but proven to be true with their latest solar bag models: the brand new Oakley Solar Tote and the 2008 Cortland Solar Tote model.
Excellent news also for everyone who waited for an online shop to get the hands into one of those [...]
Solar power for biker
When talking about solar bags we usually write about Solar Totes, Solar Messenger bags, Solar Backpacks but we never looked at Solar Bike bags which actually make a lot of sense considering they are most of the time directly facing the sun or at least the bright side of life.
I would think that Solar bags [...]
Solar power curtain
We are used to see solar panels in bags where they work as fashionable and practical energy sources on the go. Using the same technology on curtains is a fairly new application field.
The much larger area a curtain offers to catch sun light and convert it to electrical energy makes perfect sense considering one of [...]
Portable Light - Wearable Electronic for the Other 90%
I am ‘borrowing’ part of my headline from an initiative of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City which run last year an exhibition called: ‘Design for the other 90%‘.
This exhibition touched on the fact that most cutting edge technological developments are accessible to only 10% of the world population while the other 90% [...]
Italian solar fashion from Ennio Capasa
The magic or practicality of renewable energy provided by sun light and transforming it into electrical energy via solar cells has attracted Italian fashion designer Ennio Capasa from CoSTUME NATIONAL to create a range of high end - high tech Solar Handbags combining fashion, functionality and technology wrapped in Italian design.
Fine strips of mini-solar panels [...]