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Congratulations to Camden Sweet who is soon to embark on a 2,552 mile canoe trip down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana. Camden will be raising money and awareness for Pulmonary Embolisms. You...

We love it when customers use our panels to design a system that fits their needs. A Dutch customer recently mod-ed his Ortlieb handlebar bag. He wanted a removable and waterproof system. We like the detailed...

What do you do when you really want solar power, but you live in a 350 square foot apartment in NYC with no roof access? That is what our friends at Life Edited asked us to work on. Sunlight was limited,...

The free solar gear award for March goes to Filipe Masetti Leite. Inspired by Aime Tchiffely’s 1925 journey from Argentina to New York, he will ride two horses more than 16,000 km home to Brazil. What we...

We managed to get our hands on a friend's new, 3rd generation iPad last night and we were able to charge it from both our V39 battery (included with the Spark solar iPad charger) and V60 battery (included with...

Chris Gee, part of the Sycons Solar DJ team shows off what he calls his "Solar Mobile Hi-Def Trekking/Mountaineering video Solution," pairing the Fuse 4W with his NorthFace Adventure Pack. We like how Chris...

We had some great entrants in our Free Gear contest in February. The Grand Prize went to A Trip South (website, facebook). They received $250 towards a powerful laptop, cameras (Canon XA10 HD, Contour HD...

There’s been a lot of buzz about insourcing lately. We wanted to share what we do locally vs internationally and why. What We have a dozen plus manufacturing partners in China who produce a range of...

Artem Nazarov, a professional photographer from Atlanta, recently took a trip to the Yunnan province in China to photograph ethnic minorities. He used our Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger to power his MacBook Pro...

This is blog post out of date. We recommend you read our Guide to Charging GoPro from Solar. In a previous post, we showed how you can charge GoPro Hero cameras from our solar chargers. Since this is such a...

You know it is going to be a good day at work when you get a solar-powered Lego Car in the mail. The folks at Play-Well sent it to us after choosing to use our panels for this project (if you have children,...

Reed Dahlmeier took the Fuse 4W on a Vancouver to Santa Cruz (and back!) bike tour to charge his Canon T2i, mobile phone and GPS and came back a happy customer. "After over 2,000 miles of bumpy road, dirt,...

Our October Gear Winner just returned from her trip to the Galapagos on the National Geographic Endeavor. She sent us back these great photos. We gave $250 towards a Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger to power up...

It took a bit too long to setup our first home solar charging station, so we made a number of changes in version 2. This one took us less than ten minutes and is a much cleaner implementation. Like the first...

If you've got a great travel photo from one of your recent trips or adventures, then you've got a good shot to win a new Amp or Fuse Solar...

November was a busy month for entrants into our free gear program and we were frequently jealous of all the great trips people have planned. While we may not do this every month, we gave free gear to two...

We've been following a new category of laptops called "ultrabooks." Fast sales of both the MacBook Air and tablets in general finally convinced other manufacturers that there is a demand for thinner, lighter...

Our products are built to be highly portable, but we're not always traveling -- so how do you get the most out of a small solar power system? I wanted something that was as convenient as plugging into the wall...