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Charges: Cell phones and used in venom extraction (yes, that's a first for us) Location: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Syria, Costa Rica, Fiji, Belize, USA and Bahamas. "Fell in the...

Location: Mt. Acongcagua, Argentina -- 13,300 to 18,000 feet Charges: Acer Aspire One, Yaesu Radios, Sat phones "and of course iPods" The Climb for Prostate team from British Columbia set out to raise...

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Location: A poster promoting a bank's rewards program found inside the NYC subway. We found this amusing because one of our employees rides around Manhattan with a very cool Strida folding bike and of course a...

  Location: Parramos, Guatemala Northwest of Antigua Charges: iPod, locally purchased LG phone and Kodak camera -- "We spend a lot of time in the rural villages and are always on the road so the...

  Location: Nimrod Fortress, see here Charges: iPhone. Steve, graphic designer and web architect at Giant Jellyfish tells us his solar backpack "Kept my iphone going for a couple of days hiking...

Location: John Boyd Thacher State Park, West of Albany, NY Charges: iPod, iPhone and multiple digital cameras of Doug (photographer) and Alyssa (featured)...

Small PV solar panels are ideal for outdoor embedded hardware applications. The panels are inexpensive and using them prevents the need for extension cords. You can monitor the panel and battery pack to...

Sometimes our customers want all the solar charging functionality of our bags but in a different form. Benjamin Morrison, an avid cyclist, wanted to solar-ize his panniers and produced one of the nicer...

Update - We have a new class of "Always-On" batteries for use in projects like this. Also, see our new solar charger kit pages. I created an automated gardening system called Garduino to monitor soil...

Location: Mt. Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa Charges: Sony HD Cameras "We were a group of 26 climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain on the African continent. Wanting to document our trip,...

Several years ago, Popular Science wrote an article about creating your own mobile hotspot with a Voltaic Backpack. A lot has changed since then. We tested the very small $150 Cradlepoint CTR350 Mobile...

Note: This project was performed with an earlier version of the Voltaic solar panel. Voltaic's newer 16 Watt panel works for this application - the only difference is that the output plug from the current...

Location: Aboard Amtrak in Marion, Oregon Charges: iPhone. Boaz Frankel is taking an Un-Road Trip across the United States where he uses every conceivable mode of transportation except a car. You can...

Location: Acadia National Park Charges: Emily Dodge of Style by Thread Lightly is charging her Olympus digital camera from the battery inside the Solar...

Location: Somewhere over Africa Charges: Panasonic...

Location: SXSW Interactive Festival Charges: MacBook Pro and a PowerBook (via an improvised adapter built before the event) of the Sycons, Solar DJs. The Sycons power their entire setup from solar power...

Location: Nepal Charges: Panasonic DVX100 Video camera in the Himalayas for filmmaker Len Davis. Enabled Len to film even though there is only 6-8 hours of consistent power in the...