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Buffalo BSKBW01SB Solar-Powered Wireless Keyboard

cosa — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:20:30 +0000

To be honest, I’ve never thought that this kind of hardware would ever exist. A solar-powered wireless keyboard! Coming from Buffalo Japan, the BSKBW01SB keyboard sports a small adjustable solar panel above the numpad that collects the juice. However, you can also use a battery just incase it’s been raining all day. Other features include 17 hot keys, 2.4Ghz frequency operation, and 10 meters usage range.

Retailed for 13,775 yen (about $135), Buffalo BSKBW01SB wireless keyboard will hit the Japan store in the middle of July.

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Solar MP4 PMP

cosa — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:10:47 +0000

Solar MP4 is a portable media player device that does it all WITHOUT the needs of a battery. Yes, as its name suggests, the device uses solar energy to power up all its capabilites. Once the solar panel collects enough energy, you can expect Solar MP4 to play your favourite song (MP3, WMA) or video (AVI, MPEG, WMV), display your romantic photo, and record your own sound (WAV). You can also listen to your favourite FM radio station if you want. In short, the device provides you with everything related to entertainment.

In addition, Solar MP4 PMP also has a USB interface, which doubled as a media transfer and a battery recharger. Check below for the detailed specs.

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PSP Solar Battery

cosa — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:08:35 +0000

The Self-Recharging Solar Battery USB Charger for PSP, priced at just $28.76, is a must-have peripheral if you own a PSP. It will boost the juice on your little portable gaming console and keep you in the game. As long as the sun is shining of course. Oh, incase you really want to know, this thing measures 6.46 x 2.76 x 0.79-inches and weighs 9.81 oz.

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Solar-Fine 1350 – Sun-Powered Battery Charger

cosa — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:53:20 +0000

Measures 11 x 95 x 42mm and weighs 70 grams, Solar-Fine 1350 is a USB battery charger for mobile devices, such as PDA, cell phone, Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable (PSP), and MP3 player. Sounds boring? Well, don’t worry. This charger has a built-in solar panel, which means, it can transform the sunlight into an energy for your gadgets. Not bad, right?

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Picard Solar Bags Can Recharge Your Gadgets On The Road

cosa — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:08:04 +0000

Picard offers their latest collection Picard Solar Series Bags, a cool elegant bags with integrated solar-powered panel that allows you to charge your cell phones or others gadgets, such as laptop and portable player, on the go. It will hit the store in August 2007 with a price tag of US$670. Hmmm, I’ll be glad to have one of these, if only the price is not that expensive…

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i-Blue 757 Solar-Powered Bluetooth GPS Receiver

cosa — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:00:07 +0000

TranSystem has a cool device for this holiday season, the solar-powered Bluetooth GPS receiver called i-Blue 757. Powered by a 16-channel Nemerix chipset, it boasts a unique clamshell design with the built-in GPS antenna on the upper side, and a solar cell, battery, and circuit on the lower section. There’s also an integrated rechargable 1000mAh Li-Ion battery which provides up to 30 hours of juice, plus an additional 100 hours of usage time upon solar charging. To reduce the power usage, a permanent standby feature is included as well.

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Scotty Solar Charger

cosa — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:06:29 +0000

The Scotty Solar Charger is a handy portable cell phone charger. By using a solar energy, this charger can recharge your phone using daylight, thus it doesn’t need any batteries nor electricity. It comes with a belt clip – that also doubles as a fold out stand – so you can use it while you’re taking a walk or busy doing other works. As long as there’s sunlight, wherever you are, your cell phone will be recharged. Just don’t forget to positioned the device at an optimum angle so that it receive direct sunlight.

The Scotty is charged fully in 7 hours of sunlight, and this can be as little as 5 hours if the Scotty is used regularly. A fully charged Scotty will provide a mobile phone with around one hour of talk time or up to 60 hours standby time. This device can also be used with your palm-tops, personal audio, electronic games, and GPS. Need USB charger? No worry. There’s one on the Scotty. A connector for charging various models of phones are also included.

Measures 10 x 6.5 x 3 cm, Scotty Solar Charger is retailed for $34.99.

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StarSight – Solar-Powered Cell Phone Charger Street Lamps

cosa — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:00:58 +0000

As reported by FT, StarSight has came up with their StarLight Lighting System project that combines solar power, anti-theft, multi-battery technology charging, and a state-of-the-art lighting. Together with their Communication System, it also provides wireless monitoring and control. This high-tech street lamp will appear first in Africa. They are essentially a network of pylons, each equipped with a solar panel, and linked by an antennae which use wireless internet protocol.

A StarSight pylon can use a WiFi or WiMax (long-range wireless internet) and be connected to almost any kind of peripheral. It could even provide a power outlet at its base, to power a conventional phone or one using Voice-over-IP. This system is not limited to a street light device, but can be implemented to a Tsunami warning siren system, a CCTV camera or a pollution monitor.

The StarSight StarLight Lighting System contains:

Lamp – StarSight Lamp Model 1021 is the “Light” of the Street Light.
Battery Subsystem – StarSight Battery Subsystem provides power when the sun has not been available for an extended period of time.
Solar Array Subsystem – This is the main power source.
StarSight Controller – This unit integrates charge controller, radio, cpu, and anti-theft into one unit.

The StarSight Communications System contains:

StarSight Radio Access Point – (SSAP) This is the StarSight Access Point – It connects the StreetLight System to the backhaul system.
StarSight WIFI Service Controller/Backhaul – This provides the backhaul connection to StarReach Backhaul Connection on one side, and WiFi Subscribers on the other side.
SSBat – StarSight Battery Subsystem StarSight Solar Subsystem.
StarSight Solar panel.

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Surfboard Lets You Surf While Surfing

cosa — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:00:53 +0000

Confused with the title? Here’s the explanation. Devon “shaper” Jools Matthews has built a prototype of a surfboard that lets the surfers to surf the net while surfing waves. Built with solar-powered technology, it comes with a laptop, video camera, and WiFi capability that would take advantage of the hotspot located on the beach. The surfboard will be launched at the Intel GoldCoast Oceanfest on 18 June.

The board itself is 9ft 4 inch long board. It housed a Intel-powered notebook that has a wireless chip, 1.7Ghz processor, and 80GB hard drive. The laptop, weighs 2.3kg, is obviously has a waterproof casing, made of a tough but lightweight tray, and has a silicone seal, a crystal PVC cover and an aluminium gasket. The solar panel is fitted onto the board and the video camera has 64MB internal memory for storing the wave action movie.

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Patio – Solar-Powered Umbrella

cosa — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:00:37 +0000

It seems that the Sun~Brella concept has been taken into reality. Like the Sun~Brella, the Patio is a solar-powered umbrella that comes with the support base and table top. You can connect a television monitor and speaker system on the shaft of the umbrealla and they will be powered by the solar energy. The support base is made up of a hollow container, which can be filled with ice or chilled water. And there’s a pump within the shaft that draws chilled water up through to atomising spray nozzles that are arranged around the perimeter skirt of the umbrella cover.

This solar umbrella also included a fans. But unlike the Sun~Brella, they are placed inside the base. The fans circulate the cold air and expel it through louvered vents at deck chair level to cool the occupants sitting beneath the umbrella.

Sounds like a fun umbrella for the summer, doesn’t it?

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