, the charger opens up to collect solar rays, which it uses to charge up your girl’s phone, since they can rarely be trusted to keep it charged themselves (jay-kay, girls!).</p>
<p>What’s even better is that at Global Sources, you can buy them in cases of 10, meaning you can give one to every chick in your little black book directory of your smartphone for less than $20 a pop. Stuff it in their stockings on Xmas morning, and you can always stay connected.</p>
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Put something gold and shiny inside of it and now you’re talking!
Jacki:
After the solar power compact, will come solar power jewelry, from rings to necklaces to earrings. Brilliant!
I love this idea… just wish it had MORE POWER so I could charge up larger devices… like a laptop (while working on it). Although marketing to the “girls”… I would be fine carrying this around as a guy.
Jon
Pretty cool… I wonder what charging tips it comes with…
http://www.globalsourcesdirect.com/servlet/the-1560/Solar-Mobile-Phone-Charger/Detail
Apparently there is also an LED flashlight, plus charging adapter for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and SonyEricsson included.
All in all, it looks like a rechargable battery with a few solar panel glued into the circuit to provide power when needed. My only question so far is how long does it take to charge the built in battery by solar power alone?
Not too bad, I wonder if you can jerry rig a couple of these to charge a laptop like Jon mentioned.
The funniest thing about this device, as Jon pointed out, is that we’re totally going to be seing these on the geekiest mods ever known to man (It’s a Flamethowing death-bot powered by 10 compacts in parallel!)
But seriously, make a manlier version of the case (with a wood trim, oh yeah), and that’s a pretty nifty product.