SolarStrap For Portable Solar Power
Finland-based Suntrica has started to work on different ways where thin, lightweight solar panels can be used in everyday life, including functioning as wearable add-on solution for clothing and bags. This idea would mean you can always tote around different bags without losing its Portable Solar Power capability, allowing you to juice up your blinged BlackBerry while you laze around on the beach, or make sure you can keep in touch with your better half during the frenzied sales season in the shopping mall, walking through the al fresco area. Power output of Suntrica’s SolarStrap stands at a capacity of 950mAh, which is more than enough to keep most MP3 players and cellphones happy.
Solar-Powered Dumpster Is a Portable Solar Power Station
Dumpsters are usually low-tech affairs--stick the trash in, close the lid, end of story. Not so with the Solar Energy Enclosed Dumpster System (SEEDS) designed by Ray Saluccio of EarthSure. SEEDS endeavors to solve two problems at once--garbage theft and lack of space on buildings for solar panels--with a solar-powered dumpster that powers security cameras, lights, and emergency phones.
SEEDS also uses the same material present in highway barrier systems for protection from damage incurred by service trucks--a development that supposedly allows SEEDS to outlast "conventional building materials that are presently being used for enclosures and avoids the constant need of rebuilding."
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