Profiles

Location: Jacksonville, OR, home of our friends at Rain Tech who make rain water control products. Charges: "I love this thing. I take it out in the field with me to keep my phone, camera and WiFi...

Charges: Cell phones and used in venom extraction (yes, that's a first for us) Location: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Syria, Costa Rica, Fiji, Belize, USA and Bahamas. "Fell in the...

Location: Mt. Acongcagua, Argentina -- 13,300 to 18,000 feet Charges: Acer Aspire One, Yaesu Radios, Sat phones "and of course iPods" The Climb for Prostate team from British Columbia set out to raise...

Location: A poster promoting a bank's rewards program found inside the NYC subway. We found this amusing because one of our employees rides around Manhattan with a very cool Strida folding bike and of course a...

  Location: Parramos, Guatemala Northwest of Antigua Charges: iPod, locally purchased LG phone and Kodak camera -- "We spend a lot of time in the rural villages and are always on the road so the...

  Location: Nimrod Fortress, see here Charges: iPhone. Steve, graphic designer and web architect at Giant Jellyfish tells us his solar backpack "Kept my iphone going for a couple of days hiking...

Location: John Boyd Thacher State Park, West of Albany, NY Charges: iPod, iPhone and multiple digital cameras of Doug (photographer) and Alyssa (featured)...

Location: Mt. Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa Charges: Sony HD Cameras "We were a group of 26 climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain on the African continent. Wanting to document our trip,...

Location: Aboard Amtrak in Marion, Oregon Charges: iPhone. Boaz Frankel is taking an Un-Road Trip across the United States where he uses every conceivable mode of transportation except a car. You can...

Location: Acadia National Park Charges: Emily Dodge of Style by Thread Lightly is charging her Olympus digital camera from the battery inside the Solar...

Location: Somewhere over Africa Charges: Panasonic...

Location: SXSW Interactive Festival Charges: MacBook Pro and a PowerBook (via an improvised adapter built before the event) of the Sycons, Solar DJs. The Sycons power their entire setup from solar power...

Location: Nepal Charges: Panasonic DVX100 Video camera in the Himalayas for filmmaker Len Davis. Enabled Len to film even though there is only 6-8 hours of consistent power in the...

Location: Top of Kilimanjaro Charges: "It was a lifesaver - we charged our cameras and two cell phones in case we had to evacuate someone. In fact, without the Voltaic Backpack, we wouldn't have been able...

Location: Close to the North Pole as part of the Polar Race 2007 Charges: Creative MP3 and camera. "I thought you may like to know that it performed brilliantly. Carrying or strapping the bag to my sledge...

Location: Gobi Desert, Mongolia "Yours truly, revealing the secret to keeping my digital devices active and connected: Voltaic Systems solar...