All the stories tagged with Solar
Transparent Solar Panels For Windows And More
05/08/2009, Installing solar panels on the roof is great, but Windows offer additional sun-gathering surface that can be exploited with Konarka’s transparent (or translucent, we should say) solar panels called Arch Active Solar Glass. The idea is to slide these in [...]
MightyMintyBoost Solar-Powered Charger
05/06/2009, The MightyMintyBoost is a rechargeable, solar-powered MintyBoost charger. It does away with the low-capacity AA batteries for a higher capacity, rechargeable lithium polymer battery, while the addition of a solar cell helps make charging wherever you are a cinch. It [...]
Solar Flyer Electric Bike
05/06/2009, Richard Gryzch has had enough with heading off to the gas station whenever his bike’s fuel tank runs empty that he literally took things into his own hands and come up with the Solar Flyer – a solar-powered bike. This [...]
Lux Solar Panel Necklace
05/06/2009, Once in a while comes along a piece of fashionable technology that should not be denied its 15 minutes of fame, and the Lux is one of them. It comes with elegant looking solar panels to make up a necklace, [...]
SUCK Solar Clock
05/04/2009, The SUCK Solar Clock that you see here won’t run out of juice as long as you leave it to suck up enough solar juice throughout the day. Well, this ought to work just nice for folks who get plenty [...]
Solio Communicator Unleashed
02/17/2009, [Mobile World Congress] Better Energy Systems has introduced its Solio Communicator at Mobile World Congress 2009, tackling the going green issue with new gusto. The Solio Communicator hopes to provide virtually unlimited talk-time by harnessing the power of the sun, [...]
Xantrex Solar Charger Prototype
01/08/2009, [CES 2009] Going green is a pretty big theme at CES this year – after all with the stuttering economy, it makes perfect sense to help renew and preserve whatever we have to save costs (as well as have a [...]
Personal Solar Fan For Caps
07/24/2008, It’s simple, and cool, literally. In theory, this would be a great way to cool yourself but in practice you might look like too nerdy. It doesn’t need any battery, since it’s solar-powered and what better place to get sunlight [...]
Largest Rooftop Solar Array from GM
07/08/2008, General Motors will be partnering with Clairvoyant Energy, Veolia Environmental and the Government of Aragon to install the World’s Largest rooftop solar array on its Zaragosa assembly plant in Spain. According to GM, the array will be 12MW, dwarfing the [...]
Solar Mole Chaser
03/12/2008, I have seen all kinds of devices like that. Living in an urban area, I have little use for it, but it has a solar panel, so it sparked my interest. It turns solar energy into electricity that is used [...]
Key Chain Solar Charger
03/11/2008, The key Chain solar charger is meant to slow down the drain of your battery, but if you’re patient enough, you might be able to charge it, although I guess that it would take a few days for a full [...]
Solar-powered Lawnmower
03/06/2008, I guess it makes perfect sense that nobody would want to mow the lawn when it is raining, so the premise for a solar-powered lawnmower is a no-brainer. Husqvarna has rolled out its automatic electric solar-powered hybrid robotic lawn mower [...]
Konarka Demonstrates its Inkjet Printed Solar Cells
03/04/2008, Konarka Technologies Inc has demonstrated its solar-cell manufacturing based on inkjet printing technology. They are not the only ones in the thin-film solar cells space, but I guess that having more players increases the odds of having something that we [...]
