Brad Hodges is a frame builder of very sweet Nemesis Project cycles. He recently rode his self-designed bike from San Francisco to LA. He hooked up the Fuse Solar Charger to the back of the cycle and on his...
Inhabitat released its Green Gift Guide today. After an "Outdoorsman" selection from the Cult of Mac, we're glad to spread it around by getting into the "Gadget Geek" section at Inhabitat for the Fuse Solar...
The Gift Guides have started! Cult of Mac has released its Christmas gift guide for the guy in your life in four categories: treehugger, businessman, gadget geek and outdoorsman. Our OffGrid Solar Backpack...
We believe LEDs are going to be one of the most transformative technologies of the next twenty years. In the developed world, they will eventually replace fluorescent and incandescant lights. In the developing...
We were at the SF Bike Expo last Saturday in San Francisco. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to learn about our solar chargers and to Phil and the folks from RideSFO for hosting. Richard Masoner of...
Andrew Skinner recently climbed Kilimanjaro to raise money for LimbPower, which supports amputees through sporting activities. Climbing Kilimanjaro would be difficult for most of us, but doing it as an amputee...
A customer sent in this nice pic of a hike on a rail in the Adirondacks with the predecessor to the OffGrid solar backpack. The former marine says, "this pack beats any other pack hands...
Many motorcycles do not have a cigarette lighter adapter which leaves a lot of riders without power for their phone or other electronic devices. Lief Ellis mounted our 2 Watt solar panel on the back seat...
Tom Kilian will be in Darfur and needs to power a GPS tracking device and an iPad full of humanitarian, trip planning and emergency information (no phone service where they are). This picture is from testing...
We are often asked why we use monocrystalline cells instead of some of the newer technologies including amorphous silicon, CIGS and dye-based photovoltaics. The primary answer is that we're interested in...
We typically recommend our customers charge their phones from our USB battery. It outputs a consistent 5.5V, 650mA and will charge nearly every phone and handheld device and is available anytime. Some,...
We met Joel Murphy of Rachel's electronics at Maker Faire New York and liked his use of a tiny solar cell to power a sensor and robotics platform called the Solarduino (Beta). We think remote sensors are...
The iPad competitors seem to be arriving now. On the new Samsung GALAXY, it appears that it will also charge from USB as the car charger on the accessories tab connects to a USB charging cable. If anyone...
We've seen a lot of location based services form up around social media, but none of them seemed quite right for Voltaic. That's until we found SnapGoods, located in our same office space in Brooklyn....
Our new 2 Watt solar panels have small, embedded screws in each of the four corners and four super-light and low-profile plastic nuts. These allow you to attach them securely to your own...
The team over at SpeakDolphin study dolphin communication. They use the Messenger Bag to keep their Sound Devices 722 hard disk recorder powered up during research sessions and to charge their Droid X....
We've talked a number of times about powering wireless networking and it seems like Virgin Mobile's new MiFi will change what we use internally. All of us at Voltaic pass around a Sprint Wireless USB stick so...
There is an ongoing struggle to meet the energy demand in remote areas of the world. We haven't seen that many good articles measuring the efficacy of different approaches to providing power to remote...
