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People in Boston have a new way to keep their phones charged. The seat-e doubles as a bench and a phone charging station. It also uses Voltaic's 3.4 Watt solar panels and our V39 USB battery. The seat-e was...

We're running a Buy One Give One program to send solar charger and light kits to the Philippines on December 4th. Normally $85, we're providing this kit for a limited time for $59. In addition, for each order...

Our September Gear winner is soon to be off to New Zealand. She assembled an 18 Watt Solar Charger Kit to power up an iPad, smartphone, AA/AAA batteries for headlamps and GPS and EN-EL3 camera...

A group of Italian, Mozambican, English, and South African scientists and film-makers are heading to the mountains of Northern Mozambique this November to Jaunuary for a biological survey called the SkyIslands...

Our 6th Solar Power My Project Winner built a home lawn irrigation system controlled by an Arduino inside the house. TJ Hunter is using our 2 Watt Panel and our V15 Battery in Always On mode to power the lawn...

If you are looking to charge devices or a Voltaic battery from a solar panel positioned far away from your device, you need to think about the gauge (thickness) of the wire you use to transfer the power. The...

The latest iPads are the 9.7" iPad Air (5th Generation) and 7.9" iPad Mini 2. In terms of charging from solar, we prefer the original iPad Mini over the 2 as the Mini (1) provides significantly more runtime...

Two of the principals of STEPSOVER Adventure Factory in Italy spent four weeks touring through the rugged, remote region of Ladakh in India without electricity or outside support. They brought along our...

Our August Gear Winner is paddling down the Mississippi to "create a video documentary about watershed communities and their relationship to the Mighty Mississippi River." As Paddle Forward makes their way...

Dutch Explorer Arita Baaijens recently completed a 1500 km journey on horseback around the Altai Mountain Range in the heart of Central Asia. This was the first known circumnavigation of the range. The journey...

The American Climber Science Program uses science to improve conservation efforts in the high mountains of the world. The ACSP spent eleven weeks in Peru this year and climbed over a dozen peaks. According to...

We don't have this problem in the city, but given the number of entries on this topic, we realized that it was an issue for many of you. Our fifth winner of our Solar Power My Project Contest is going to mod...

I got this rear Origin 8 USB bike light from Redbeard Bikes in DUMBO a few days ago. I bought it because the brightness on the light blew away my light from two years ago and it charged from USB. To...

UPDATE: The standard Lenovo adapter is now included with any purchase of a V88 Laptop Battery Pack or any of our solar laptop chargers. -----Of course, if you want to hack your own, here's how to do...

If you're going to be swimming for 2-4 miles in New England ocean during the winter, you want to know the water conditions before you leave home. Damon Bosetti, a member of the Nahant Knuckleheads is building...

Our third Solar Power My Project Contest winner from Whistler, BC has "a mesh network of XBee/Arduino nodes that report battery voltage of their respective solar power systems. Of the 20 nodes, 2 are currently...

Our second winner of our "Solar Power My Project" Contest combines three of our loves: solar, bicycles, and espresso. Brian Del Vecchio and other friends of Alessandro are going to upgrade his custom...

Dell's new line of Ultrabooks also featured a new "standard" size of universal barrel adapter. The new size is 4.5mm OD, 3.0mm ID with a center pin We've also seen it listed as 2.8mm in some cases. We are...