Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories | 
Solar cells have been made into various form factors in order to be handy and provide best absorption of sun lights to power our gadgets. We’ve heard solar cells will be made so tiny which can be used as paint and sprayed on your entire house to absorb solar energy to power your house and various gadgets.
Mitsubishi Corp., Tokki Corp. and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have teamed up and developed the organic thin-film solar cells, which form the leaves of fake plants.
It’ll be great use in offices and living spaces, that have fake plants around for the sake of spicing up the environments. The solar cells on these fake plants make them unnoticeable that they’re actually those dull cells which collect energy for you. They’ve now become part of your home decors, being part of the fake plants that make your living or office space more lively. Besides, they also have potential to be used in building construction, such as embedded in those building materials, since they’re super thin. Of course, they’re super easy to be incorporated into various gadgets that will not add any bulk to gadgets.
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Posted by hina on November 9, 2009 under Accessories |
If you have a big garden, with a big swimming pool, it’s most likely to attract lots of pests. It’s simply no easy way to keep those bugs away. Here comes a landscape light, which doubles up as a pest killer, and best used in your garden for serving as a decorative item, as well as keeping those bugs away.
The landscape light pest killer is solar powered, which eliminates your worry of piling up high electricity bills. The light source is LED, which shines in either white or purple color. The device will absorb sunlights during daytime, which charges the internal 600mAh battery.
Since it takes power from the sun, it also frees you from the hassle of dangling power cords. It also offers flexibility for installation either getting it attached to the wall or just somewhere next to the swimming pool. It comes with flexible mounting kits which let you have your installation with ease.
The Landscape Light pest killer shines in either white or purple lights. When it shines in purple light, meaning it’s in the “bug-zapper” mode, that no bugs could escape from its brutal slaughtering actions. It’s definitely a perfect gear for those who have plans for carrying out some landscaping work to spice up the garden, as well as killing all those disgusting bugs.
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Things have changed. Sunlights are now used to make ice instead of being used to melt the ice. A prototyped solar icemaker has been created by a team of engineering students from San Jose State University.
The solar icemaker is an eco-friendly device, which has zero carbon footprint. And some more it doesn’t need electricity to keep the ice cool, which is super handy for places like a developing country or disaster zone where electricity is unreachable.
The solar-powered ice maker uses a refrigerant liquid which evaporates when exposed to the sun. The vapor then travels through pipes that come into contact with an absorbent material which cools when the sun goes down. When this absorbent material reaches the 104°F, the refrigerant turns back into a liquid, which its temperature then drops below the freezing point due to pressure difference. When some water is added to the exterior of the evaporator, then ice will form.
The solar ice maker needs no electricity, uses only solar energy to produce ice and it has no moving parts. It’s capable of making 14 pounds of ice per day, which is more than enough for average Joe during their hot summer’s barbecue session.
The device is definitely a super handy one for those remote areas which are always exposed to the hot sun, and where those people desperately want some ice to cook themselves down. Currently, it’s still a prototype of the engineering students. Hope they could get it ready by next summer.
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Sunjar II makes up a great decorative light for your garden. Some more it’s a green gadget that collects sunlights during day times and shines at nights with warm sunshine for your garden.
The Sunjar II is equipped with high power solar cells which are efficient to collect sun juice during day times. At nights it emits warm glow much like that of the sun jar. The Sunjar II can also be powered by 2 AA batteries, which lets it continue to shine during bad weathers when sun juice is short.
The Sunjar II pathway light can shine up for 8 hours at night after a full charge. It’s also equipped with a sensor that automatically detects the ambient lights – when the surrounding is bright enough, it’ll shut itself off to save the power during the day. For only $20, you can get it online from Soucingmap. It’s deemed pretty easy to assemble and mount it at one corner in your garden.
Posted by friend on November 7, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Energizer has incorporated green element into their latest battery charger, which is to make use of sun juice to charge those rechargeable AA and AAA batteries.
The device is basically a simple battery charger which comes with an AC jack and a flip-out solar panel for collecting sun juice. When sunlight is available, the charger is able to soak up sunlight using the solar panel to charge the batteries. Or when you’re in dark, you can connect the charger to an AC source to juice up your batteries.
The Energizer solar charger also comes with a handy USB port which allows it to be used as a power extender for almost all USB powered devices. Most gadgets, such as cellphones, cameras, GPS devices are chargeable via USB ports these days. So, it’s definitely a handy piece to have to extend the power of your gadgets when the juice is running out.
Some more, it’s weather proof, which is handy to bring along anywhere you go. Energizer is expected to keep the price down at a reasonable $50. And the official announcement is expected at CES 2009.
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When you go under the sun, you’ll normally wear sunglasses. So, it’s a great idea to make sunglasses to carry solar panel, which will then be able to collect sun juice to power up your gadgets.
Designers Hyun-Joong Kim and Kwang-Seok Jeong have come out with their new design of a pair of fashion-forward sunglasses. The specialty of these sunglasses is it’ll be packed with dye solar cells, which is a smart design to soak up sunlights to power your portable gadgets.
The sunglasses are called SIG (Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses), which will be made possible to convert sunlights into usable energy. But too bad, the pair is just a concept, which needs funding to get it commercialized.
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There are some lights in the garage or garden that you may want to leave it on overnight and turn it off early in the morning. It’s handy to have a timer switch that is able to automate the switching on and off the lights for your home.
The Aube Solar Timer Switch is such a handy timer switch, which is smart enough to turn on the lights for you just before sunset and turn it off before sunrise. You may have dealt with a number of timer switches before, which most of them have given headache of adjusting the precise times for sunset and sunrise.
But the Aube timer switch works differently from others, and it simplifies everything for you, by needing you to program into it the latitude and the longitude of the city that you live. It’ll then be able to adjust by itself and turn the lights on and off precisely just before dusk and dawn. It’s best used for controlling incandescent, halogen or fluorescent lighting.
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The SOLAR ChumAlong Charger is much smarter than any solar chargers that we’ve seen before. The ChumAlong charger is intelligent enough to follow the directions of the sun or sun lights.
When the sun shifts its position from morning to noon, and noon to dawn, the ChumAlong Charger is able to adjust itself to get its solar panel to face to the directions where sun lights are strongest. Doing so ensures it always get the full amount of sun lights for storing into the 12V rechargeable battery.
The ChumAlong Charger has four optical sensors that help to track the brightest point in the sky. And it’s about 30%-50% increase in efficiency over conventional, stationary solar chargers. The Solar ChumAlong charger may look little flimsy, it’s because of it’s specially designed to fold up for easy transport and it can be setup into shape in just a few minutes without needing any tools, making it a perfect tool for camping and various outdoor activities.
With the sun-light tracking capability, this solar charger costs $399.00, which is much more expensive than any average solar chargers. Please also note that the price of $399.00 doesn’t include the 12V rechargeable battery.
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