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The Amp Solar Charger is one of our new standalone chargers. We are excited because it has about the 4 times as much solar power and twice the battery power as other solar chargers on the market and 8...

Serve as a mobile charging station at the playground. The Voltaic Fuse Solar Charger connects easily to a few stroller models we tested on. We don't recommend leaving your child in the sun in order to...

We made several "under the hood" upgrades to the USB Battery Pack V11 in this production run. One of the most important was the use of high-temperature Lithium-Polymer cells. In the test, the...

Updated instructions are here. The Fuse Solar Charger is designed to, well, fuse to nearly any object. Below are three ways to connect it securely to a backpack including a technical hiking bag and...

If you're curious about whether the our small solar panels can take a beating, watch this video of our 2 Watt solar panel below. We use industrial materials for the backing of each panel and...

The move towards standardizing on Micro USB means that we all have to buy and carry fewer AC chargers. We don't need to have a stock of ten different ones in our drawers. So who is slowing down the...

Update: Visit our current guide to charging DSLR Camera Batteries which includes our latest products and is kept up to date. Here's a brief guide to turning your solar charger into a...

In our original bags, we slid each panel under an aluminum frame. This held the panel snug, but wasn't the most efficient use of materials. In our newest line of products, we eliminated the frame and embedded...

Smallbean is down in Tanzania kicking off its' Citizen Archivist Project and it seems that our Generator solar panels are working well to charge their electronics. Smallbean trains participants to document...

Adafruit created this tutorial on how to make a charger that will work with iPhone 4, 3GS and others so that you don't get "CHARGING IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS ACCESSORY." They also released a new...

We've produced 3 different iPod/iPhone adapters and modified both our USB ports and USB adapters to keep up with the evolving charge specifications of Apple products. So we were excited when the iPhone 4...

Adafruit just released a how-to for building your own solar charger for Li-Polyum batteries using one of our 2.0 Watt panels, a Li-Polymer battery pack, Li-Poly battery charger circuit and of course a...

Got a chance to test solar charging a Verizon MiFi 2200 at Choice this morning. It charged from both the USB battery and directly from a 2.0 Watt, 6 Volt solar panel via the Micro USB adapter. The reflection...

We advise anyone who is building a solar powered application to test power flow going into your battery system or device. You will get to see whether it is working (LED indicators aren't always reliable)...

The New York Times had an article in the Sunday business section about how sustainability is tied to positive economics. We agree to a point and we'll discuss some of these benefits in later...

If you find yourself in Philadelphia, the Schuylkill Environmental Center has a pair of interactive "robotic creatures" designed by artist Mark Malmberg. These use our 15 Watt Generator panels to power...

The team at Sol Design Lab in Austin showed off their retro-modern Solar Pump Station at this year's Maker Faire. The design couples an iconic 1950's gas pump with solar to create a power station for...

A new Stanford University study claims that solar-powered drip irrigation systems can be used to irrigate farms and improve yields in Sub-Saharan Africa on an equal cost basis with liquid-fuel systems....