Luxury fashion and accessories label Dunhill has launched a solar mobile phone charger, the Dunhill Solar Charger.

Description from Dunhill:

This technical device is engineered from lightweight and durable aerospace grade aluminium and fits neatly into its Chassis leather carry case. It will provide up to 30 hours of charge time for a mobile phone or mp3 player, and the device itself can be recharged using the built in solar panel or via a computer USB.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

• Aluminium & Plastic Unit/ Chassis Black Leather Case.
• AD Gunmetal Branding on Case and engraved

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The IllumiCharger by Ryan Hess collect and store energy of interior lighting to provide free charging for USB devices in the same way that the solar powered calculators power themselves.

The purpose of the IllumiCharger is to provide the electricity network is completely grid free for all USB devices including, mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras, and the like. The IllumiCharger achieve this unprecedented feat by recycling light energy that penetrates in every indoor room that has a luminescence p, compact fluorescent, halogen, or incandescent.

Product Specifications:

• 100% grid-less electricity for USB device charging!
• 2 USB inputs to charge mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras, and the like
• Charging speed:  USB standard – 5v @ 500 mAh – 9600 mAh capacity

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Designed by Eric and Jim, The Solar Vox is environmentally friendly way to charge all your USB devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, iPods, PSP’s and DS’s. Plug in the devices using the USB chord and sat on a small tray under the solar panels that sit on top. It has user replaceable batteries and no proprietary connectors. The device also sports a design that will make it easy assembly and disassembly.

Solar Vox allows for tilted. By tilting the device towards the incoming solar energy, you can ensure that your own devices get the charging that needed. Solar Vox can be tilted at four different angles: 0, 30, 70 and 90 degrees. Solar panel itself is designed has a life span of over 10 years.

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The Silva Solar II is foldable, all terrain solar cells recharges mobile GPS, phones, palmtops or hunting radios via 12-volt adapter, same like used within car’s 12-volt socket?.

Gains from foldable panel is that easy position at optimum angle for sun. When folded solar cells protected from wear and torn that could occur when packed in purse.

Four slot for rope. Including cups suction for attachments for window.

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Seating is the main purpose of a bench. However, modern people do something more on the bench. Waiting for someone to become one of the new functions. Design of bench freed itself from tradition. This is a new approach of thinking what the bench is. While the traditional role, this bench becomes WiFi hot-spots and night-lighting with a thin film solar battery. In addition, made of aluminum and recycling plastic considered eco-issues.

Designer : Sean Park, Olbae Woo, and Owen Song. [Via]

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Solar Vest CVFR-S09 is designed for your comfort and convenience. It comes with a large storage pockets to store tools or equipment including cameras and batteries + cables and connectors for all currently popular portable electronic. Canvas vest is soft but durable.

Vest that consists of 4 laminated solar panels to be completely weatherproof, so you do not need to change this vest just because of bad weather. You also may remove the solar panels and placing them in the sun while you work in a cave or a shaded field.

As you walk outside, the four solar panels on the back of the vest absorbs solar energy and store it in a high-capacity battery is located in the front left pocket. If your phone or other gadgets need power, just plug it into the battery and allow it charged. Simple as that!

The Solar Vest – Solar Battery + Charger for Portable Electronics is available at Chinavasion website. The price offered about $ 140 USD.

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The iPetals is a pleasant concept design for an iPhone chargers. The iPetals is a special solar chargers that impresses us with its specific and pleasant design. While designing the iPetals chargers, the designer was inspired by Fandi Mengs Sunny Flower concept. As well running as a chargers, the iPetals also runs as a base for your iPhone. Each petal expands to build a pleasant flower design. What is more another, every petal is colored with various lightness to make this chargers a special look.

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Function and uses:

Solar Mobile Charger is a versatile charger which utilizes 100% of solar energy you can use to charge phone battery, CD Player, MP3 Player, MP4 Player, a small radio and others.
Very useful for you who frequently travel, tent, camping, traveling far outside the city, and driving in an emergency such as natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, etc.. Where there is not (difficult) to search supply of electricity or other energy source. With a slim and lightweight, this versatile charger easily take you any-where. Safe and easy to use, and certifiable to use for years, without maintenance.

How to use?

Easy! Simply place the solar panel in place by the sun exposure (can be also on the car dashboard) survived more than 7 hours (from morning to afternoon) so that the battery charger is fully charged, and if you want to use, connect the panel with the connector type with HP according to the type of HP through the cable connector that has been provided, then connect to your HP. The time required until the battery charged with full capacity  depend on each type battery HP/other equipment which would be charged. Solar Mobile Charger is still able to absorb solar energy even if the weather cloudy/rain, so your phones will always be charged whatever the weather. Ideal to use at festivals, on holiday or in the car, you will wonder how you ever coped without it.

Alternative Solar Panel Charging

Solar Mobile Charger can also be charged by the computer via USB as solar alternative energy. You can utilize the USB cable that is provided. Charging time with USB is 2-3 hours.

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Executive Summary about Solar Battery Charger by Anna Stone

Solar Battery Chargers are used to charge your batteries when you are not connected to the power grids and do not have access to another form of electricity. The way a Solar Charger works is simple. The solar panel of the battery charger collects energy from the sun and converts this into electricity. Now, there are many different types of solar battery chargers, as well as different types of batteries you might want to charge. Some solar chargers are more powerful than others. As all solar battery chargers use some type of solar panel, the amount of power they generate generally depends on the size of the panels. Solar panels are made up of individual solar cells. Solar cells are the units which create electricity out of sunlight. The more solar cells there are on a solar panel, the more electricity they create. So you will generally find that bigger solar panels produced more energy, and smaller solar panels produce less.

Some solar battery chargers work with simple AA batteries, like those that you would use to run a flashlight. Some charge the batteries of your equipment, such as the battery in your laptop computer.

You might ask why one uses a solar charger to charge a battery, instead of just directly running one’s equipment from a solar panel.

The sun’s heat might damage your cell phone. There are a variety of solar battery chargers and other portable solar power devices available on the market today. Further information and answers to common questions can be found at Solar Chargers and Portable Solar Power Devices.

How Solar Powered Battery Chargers Can Ease Your Everyday’s Life
Executive Summary about Solar Battery Charger by Assaf Katzir

Solar battery charger is one of these devices that became a necessity once we have all these electric devices that we use on a daily basis. iPod, laptop, mobile phone, PDA, GPS etc’ just name it. There are portable flexible solar panels that you can place in your small bag and use them to charge your electrical devices’ batteries when you need to without being attached to any electrical grid outlet. Most solar chargers are equipped with plug kits which match to variety of electric devices. The variety of solar chargers’ sizes, shapes and uses continue to grow rapidly.

There is no usage cost when using solar battery chargers as opposed to the utility electricity chargers. No pollution released to the atmosphere when using portable solar charger and no chemicals leached into our ground water when discarded since we are using rechargeable batteries, so you contribute to keep environment clean, not to mention that you save money when you use a solar charger.

As you can see there are many benefits and advantages while using solar powered battery charger.

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