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 [...]
Solar Light cap gives shade during the day and light at night
My first reaction seeing the 2CLight Solar Light cap was: oh no, again a funny cap with an add-on like a fan but looking a bit closer how the cap works I must say: the 2CLight Solar Light cap is a unique and useful product after all.
The concept is simple but brilliant: a flexible solar [...]
New Solar bags from Sunload
In time for the sunny season Sunload started rolling out the 2008 Solar bags we wrote about back in January.
The first in our overview is the SolarRucksack (backpack) which comes in two sizes, small and large and many color shades.
Sunloads Solar bags come with a ‘on board’ storage battery and can operate any electric device [...]
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 [...]
Fun, sexy Solar bag from Solarc
SOLARC a German company developing, producing and selling high-quality, low power photovoltaic devices is fully in line with our 2008 expectation: the year of Solar fashion.
Being environmental conscious has never been more fun, trendy and good looking.
SOLARC’s new solar bag has been developed in cooperation with Artbag24, another Germany based company that makes hip [...]
Reware ProFolio - Solar power bag for business
Reware made a big impression in the solar bag market last June with the introduction of the Beach Tote, an outstanding practical and stylish beach tote with solar charging function.
This year, Reware is giving the solar power to the business people that can only dream from being on the beach right now.
The ProFolio is [...]
Solar empowered Fashion
Fashion with function comes always to my mind if seeing those flexible solar panels in Bags and sometimes (like yesterday) even in Jackets.
Functional Solar Fashion is certainly the correct description when looking at the Noon Solar bag (on the left) where form and fashion is fused by solar power.
Voltaic (on the right) comes to my [...]
Zegna Solar-JKT spotted in the wild
Zegna announced in June last year the introduction of the Solar-JKT as part of the Zegna Sport range for Spring/summer 2008.
We still have Winter time but Zegna started selling the Solar-JKT in their shops in Hong Kong for around $ 1,050.- Not a bargain but Zegna is all about quality, style and innovation and not [...]
Wearable Power
Wearable Power is a hot topic in the Wearable Electronic field. A recent announcement made by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan puts this topic back into public view.
Their concept, a Electricity - generating knee brace is a wearable mechanism that works much like regenerative braking charges a battery in some hybrid [...]
SmartSwim Solar Charger Beach Tote
Solestrom, a Swimwear brand using cutting edge technology for swim wear fashion, joined the Solar Bag trend 2008 by offering for the coming swim and summer season their version of a solar bag: the SmartSwim™ Solar Charger Beach Tote.
The solar charging part is fairly simple, using a water resistant solar panel with 1.5 Watt. [...]
