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We are definitely partial here at Voltaic to a great biking adventure, well we actually love all exciting endeavors! Our February gear winner, Rian Cope, is part of a 3-man team with Nam Youngho and Jason...

Let's get right to it. In November we decided to use solar power to monitor a new condo development across the street from our office. Some of us wanted to see what goes into building condos that are about a...

Voltaic Systems' products have been used for a myriad of applications over the years and now we can add to the list, powering up a portable Wi-fi network, that in turn is used to capture and stream video for...

Brain Do, our June Gear winner is heading to Vietnam on a humanitarian trip. He is member of the Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC), an organization at the University of Washington. VHC is a non-profit,...

Justin Wickham, Co-Founder of Learning Planet and a former BBC Television News & Current Affairs Documentary Producer is building a new nursery school in the remote hamlet of Balimtar, Dhawa, Nepal....

Arita Baaijens, a Dutch biologist, longtime explorer, writer and photographer will doing an expedition to the Altai Mountains from this June to October. The Altai Mountains are divided by the borders of 4...

The Creative Team from Barnstorm Cinema, which includes Joe Lotuaco and DaCoda Bartels, will be heading to Colonet, Baja California, Mexico to to film a week long paramotor/paragliding adventure. Filming...

Our November Gear Winner, Peter Csonka, returned from his 1 month trip filming and kayaking in Uganda White Nile and sent us some photos of his Spark Solar iPad Charger catching some rays. From past years...

Shaun Boyte, our January Gear Winner will be traveling down to Chile for 20 days. For the first 10 he'll be photographing Racing The Planet's Atacama Desert Crossing and then for the last 10 he's off to...

Crystal Nadeau will be trekking to Mt. Everest Base Camp in May 2013 in support of the non-profit organization, Flying Kites.  The organization, based in Nairobi, Kenya cares for homeless, orphaned and abused...

Congratulations to our November Gear Winner, Peter Csonka from Slovakia. As a professional kayaker and amateur movie maker, he'll be traveling on an expedition to the Uganda White Nile to film a new story...

We're sending a Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger and Canon LP-E6 camera charger to French Polynesia. Our winner, Daniel Fox, a well-versed photographer will be working with Living Oceans Foundation. The...

Solar Panels for Lead Acid Batteries Lead acid batteries have large capacities and are often available in many places around the world. But which lead acid battery should you use with solar panels? I...

Taken on the Mongolian Steppe this Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger is propped up by what appears to be a pair of wild sheep horns! Also used to power up a couple of cameras, Canon 7D & Canon 50D. Photo...