Thanks for a great year. Here’s where a few of our customers took us in 2010…we can’t wait to see where you’ll take us in 2011.
Travelers and Adventurers
The intrepid Donald Schultz wore our predecessor to the OffGrid solar backpack on Discovery Channel’s Wild Recon. A climbing team kept in touch with weather data and each other on Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, while other customers took them on nice hikes in the Adirondacks or Camel’s Hump in Vermont. One traveler powered her Flip and iPhone in Islamabad while another used her solar backpack for her Kindle while chasing brumbies in the Taravale Sanctuary in Australia. A British amputee climbing Kilimanjaro charged his DSLR with the Fuse. Bloggers even blogged the Olympics.
NGOs
Aid organizations used the new Amp solar charger for charging iPads in Sudan and laptops in Tanzania and MacBooks in parts of sub-saharan Africa. Researchers used it to power Blackberries while gathering data in Haiti while another to keep their sound recorder and Droid charged during dolphin research sessions.
Bicycle Touring
The number of cross-country bicyclists using smartphones to stay in touch and communicate about their trip seems to be growing. Before we had the Fuse solar charger, two friends made their own DIY kit to power phones while bicycling across the United States while fundraiser for cancer research. We met up with one rider just before his “short” San Francisco to Los Angeles trip. We were also delighted to hear about this trip across Portugal.
DIY
There were lots of solar projects, but perhaps our favorite are these interactive robots at an art installation in Philadelphia powered by our 15 Watt panels and a gas pipeline monitoring system in Canada.
Exelent!!!