All the stories tagged with solar power

Solar Powered DIY Bottle Boat

01/30/2010, Want to teach your child some DIY skills and science? Well, you could always get him this Solar Powered Bottle Boat. You’ll get instructions and the necessary parts to turn a boring soda bottle into 3 different types of boats, [...]

Solar Ear relies on sun to juice up

01/27/2010, With so many young people these days listening to their iPods at very loud levels, it won’t come as a surprise that many years from now, these same once-young people will have a diminished sense of hearing, which is why [...]

Solar cell recharging prepped for iPod and iPhone

01/21/2010, Apple has filed a patent application for a portable device in the line of an iPod or iPhone which will feature solar cells that can harness the power of the sun to keep it juiced up so that you can [...]

Solar Powered Eye Implants Are Coming

01/03/2010, One of the biggest problems faced by researchers who are working on eye implants is the source of power; after all, you’re not going to plug yourself into a wall socket for charging, are you? It seems some that folks [...]

Iqua BHS-603 SUN solar-powered Bluetooth headset

12/28/2009, Iqua’s BHS-603 SUN solar-powered Bluetooth headset is pretty self-explanatory – you will be able to carry out all of your conversations hands-free, with its battery offering up to 9 hours of non-stop chatting with a 200 hour standby time. Of [...]

Solar powered cockroach

12/24/2009, They say that a cockroach is able to live off the glue on the back of a postage stamp for months on end, making these critters one of the most durable species on earth to survive a nuclear fallout. Well, [...]

Solar Powered Garden Insect Theatre

12/14/2009, We all know that bugs are strangely drawn to bright lights, and they can get in the way of life with them shedding wings and all, leaving you with more work the next morning. Well, instead of finding ways to [...]

Solar-powered tank controlled by iPhone

12/07/2009, Your iPhone isn’t just a communications tool – it can also be used, in this instance, to control a solar-powered Arduino tank remotely. This Arduino tank is the result of Chris Rojas’ work, where he used the iPhone TouchOSC app, [...]

Flexio solar powered radio

11/30/2009, Want a radio that will run perpetually without having you to worry about it running out of juice? The Flexio FM radio ought to fit the bill nicely, where it unfortunately comes with only one fixed FM channel. Well, at [...]

Sun Drive keychain is unique

11/09/2009, The Sun Drive keychain is very different from most other keychains since this model sports a USB solar charger that allows you to juice up a range of USB-powered devices on-the-go. Even though it is small in size, it is [...]

Neuber Energy Sun-Bag

10/30/2009, Solar seems to be as much the in thing these days as with multitouch displays, and the Neuber Energy Sun Bag carries just one of those. It will feature a huge solar cell on the front flap which will help [...]

Mitsubishi offers solar-powered trucks

10/26/2009, Mitsubishi Chemical will harness the power of the sun by using solar cells to power its air conditioning system in trucks so that fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced in an effort to keep the earth as [...]

Green traffic light

10/21/2009, By green, we don’t mean its color but more of its intention, especially when this traffic light comes with a solar panel to obtain all the energy it needs to maintain traffic flow round the clock in an orderly manner. [...]

Solar-powered Clock

10/12/2009, Vienna-based design studio Vandasye has come up with a solar-powered clock prototype that well, basically tells the current time at a glance, being powered by solar energy – guess there is no need to change that pesky AA battery once [...]
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