Sun Boxes Ambient Sound In Bb
Sun Boxes is an installation of discrete solar powered speakers each looping a note from the Bb chord on the guitar. The piece evolves and changes over time as the loops come in and out of sync and also as…
Solar Powered Mobile Phone From China
The Umeox Solar phone is made by Umeox down in Shenzhen. It's touch and waterproof.
See also Samsung's solar powered phone.
Video of an ad for the phone is embedded below. They've been watching the Matrix. It's very loud…
Solar Powered Bamboo Studio
The Lamboo Studio was built by Lamboo - a company specialising is bamboo based materials for the construction industry - to show off their products. The S shaped roof is a large solar panel - designed to keep the inside…
Solar Powered Bamboo House
Tongji Uni have entered a solar powered bamboo house in the Solar Decathalon Europe held in Madrid.
Video embedded below from Vimeo:
More pics at designboom.
Solar Powered Light Bulb
The Nokero is a solar powered light bulb. Designed to replace kerosene lamps (no kero... gedit?). It is cleaner, safer and does not pollute. It will last for about 2 hours on a day's charge or 4 hours on a…
Solar Powered Mobile Phone
Samsung India has launched the World's first solar powered mobile phone - the Samsung Guru E1107. It's also a torch and an FM radio. Full charging takes 40 hours. But you get 5 - 10 minutes of talk time…
Solar Soccer
Qatar is bidding for the 2022 World Cup (Wikipedia). It gets hot in Qatar in the summer - 40C. Too hot to be running around on a futy pitch. So they're inventing cooling technology for the stadiums for…
Flexible Solar Panels
SoloPower recently introduced a line of flexible and rollable solar panels for use on rooftops called the SFX1-i. Ease of installation saves time and money. Costs are further reduced via their special manufacturing process. The panels are built on…
Solar Planes First Night Flight
Solar Impulse, the solar powered plane we've been following for some time (see here and here), has made its first night flight. The flight lasted 26 hours. It was kept aloft during darkness by 400kg of batteries that…
