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We left the house a bit earlier than usual today to support NYC's Bike to Work Day in our own solar-powered way. We decked out our usual commuter bicycle with 60+ Watts of portable solar panels, 180 Watt hours...

20 students at UW-Madison recently built a solar charger as part of IEEE Student Projects.  The goal of the program is to provide students hands-on experience with practical design skills as many of the...

If you don't think it makes sense to carry an AC charger for your laptop and for our V60 Universal Laptop Battery included with our solar laptop chargers, you're not alone. We developed a set of adapters that...

A customer recently drove his Vespa from Tangier, Morocco to Dakar, Senegal - 4000km in 16 days. He used our Fuse 4W Solar Charger to keep his GoPro and phone charged. Here are some of the great...

We get asked a lot about which tablets we recommend. Without wading into the Android vs Apple melee, we wanted to offer our opinion from a solar charging perspective. If you're powering your gadgets from...

If you have any of our 4 Watt or 10 Watt solar chargers, here's an easy way to add extra power. Simply connect one of our portable solar panels to the second of two cables coming from the panels and you can...

Scott Thigpen is about to race his mountain bike from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico as part of the Tour Divide. That's 2700 miles! He'll be bringing along the Fuse 4W Solar Charger on this...

Our partner Empower Projects is working to build self-reliant communities in Malawi. As part of this effort, they are installing solar lighting systems in homes: 3.4 Watt Solar Panel, V11 USB Battery, and...

When we installed our solar lighting systems in the Andes, we saw that we weren't the first to visit the Q'eros with solar solutions. We saw two schools that had fairly large solar systems installed....

I awake in the cold and look outside to see snow has covered the valley and the roofs of the homes. I wonder if this is going to slow down our efforts to install 40 lighting kits today. Isn't it supposed to be...

My head is throbbing, I can barely walk straight, and I'm freezing, but I'm carried on by the siren song of "Otra casa, otra casa!" (another house). It's my second day in Peru and I'm at 5,000 meters, a three...

We're about to leave for Cuzco and one question we had was the best way to orient the small solar panels so that they generate the most power over the course of the year. We tested out two applications on our...

Our June 2012 Gear winner just sent us an update and photos from their trip to Indonesia. As a reminder, theirs was an All Women’s Sea Kayaking Expedition in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. "Lena Conlan –...

We're partnering with Water Solutions SAC in Lima and Q'ellqa in Cusco to create an exciting new Buy One Give One program. For every solar power and light kit purchased featuring our new USB Touchlight, we...

Last week we introduced special zipties as a way to mount our panels outside. Today, we are making a suction cup mount available. The suction cup mount makes sense best when you don't have any structures on...

Nicola from Italy just sent in his hack of the IKEA SUNNAN solar lamp so that it can charge his electronics. He increases the power to the lamp's batteries using Voltaic's 2 Watt solar panel and uses...

After Sandy, we deployed and installed hundreds of solar phone chargers and light systems. We mounted a 3.4 Watt solar panel outside using double-sided sticky tape and connected it to our V11 USB Battery...

An avid bicycle tourer and blogger sent us in this blog post of his solar charging setup and includes bit of a product review to boot. He uses a PowerFilm 50 Watt foldable panel connected to our V60 Universal...