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Sanyo’s continued effort to make green power is gradually becoming more and more successful. The company wants to become no. 1 in Japan by 2012 in solar power systems technology. It has recently developed a solar cell that is actually thinner than a human hair! “Their new prototype solar cell is just 58 micrometers thick, about one-fourth of most solar cells currently out there.”
Think green again. Especially built for iPhone and iPod touch this hybrid solar charger case from Novothink, packs in a solar panel that lets users to charge up their respective gadgets using solar energy. According to the specifications, “2 hours of direct solar exposure provides about 30 minutes of talk time on a 3G network or 60 minutes of talk time on a 2G network“.
Using solar energy in consumer electronics is not something very new and have been around for quite a while. But this is something not seen often, Sanyo has recently announced a personal solar charger that you can carry anywhere you want. So if you are in middle of nowhere and cannot find a power outlet to run your laptop/cellphone this littler device can be your savior.
The batteries shown above may look like the conventional ones, but they are not. These are the Suncat Solar re-chargeable batteries designed by Knut Karlsen. They consist of a set of old NiMH rechargeable batteries wrapped in a flexible Photo Voltaic cell.
