10 Days of CrunchGear: Set Controls for the Heart of the Sun
- August 11th, 2008
- 457 Comments

We begin our 10 Days of CrunchGear giveaway with the Solio Classic Charger, a super cool way to keep your gear charged on the go. Just stick this thing in the sun (Note: The bright ball in the sky) and charge your iPods, cellphones, and other gadgetry.
Solio: Solio Classic Charger
Plug into the Sun and never get stuck again without power!
· Works with most mobile phones PDAs, MP3 players, digital cameras and handheld games
· Stores power for up to one year with built in lithium battery
· When fully charged, charges a mobile phone twice or 15 hours of MP3 music
· 1 HR of sunshine = 15 min of talktime or 40 min of MP3 music
· Available in black, white, silver and pink (for a limited time only)
How do you win?
Leave a comment. We’ll pick one commenter at random. Remember to include your real email address in the E-mail address field. Do not write your e-mail address in the body of the e-mail. To do so invites ridicule and a vague sense of dishonor.
Rules: You can win once per day, but you can enter multiple times per post and per day provided the comment content is different each time. Each contest ends at noon eastern the day after the initial giveaway is posted so keep your eye out for late-night contest announcements. To add extra frisson we will post some giveaways to Twitter and Facebook.



Steve Jabs (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Yay, this was fun last year! Happy BDay CG!
Ryan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats guys! Definitely looking forward to the other contests, too.
Mauricio Rummens (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Hey! Congratulations! I really like your blog and well, really use it sometimes!
;)
Corey (Who am I?)
3 months ago
YAY , i like free stuff, i just started to read this site about five months ago, and now i check it everday, sometimes even twice a day!!!
Jorge (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday!!
Joshua Baer (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Everyone loves free gadgets!
JeremyF (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats Crunchgear!!! I could totally use the Solio with my iPhone 3g. Never know when you need some extra battery power.
Righteous Marketing (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday and may all your posts continue to be read and commented on like they are important.
Righteous Marketing (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday and may all your posts continue to be read and commented on like they are important.
Mayer Reich (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday CG!
I should win as I live in the House of the Sun (translated from Hebrew)
DSN (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Here comes the Sun….
Dov (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Here comes the sun! Happy birthday.
Scott (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Nice job, happy bday.
Beatles (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Those chargers are really cool
Brad Stolba (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday Crunchgear!
Kyle (Who am I?)
3 months ago
If I don’t win one of these over the next 10 days, I will never ever ever visit CrunchGear again. Ever.
(just kidding. I totally will.)
gylippus (Who am I?)
3 months ago
YEAHH!!!!
Sam (Who am I?)
3 months ago
2 years and 38K rss readers, not bad!! congrats.
plin (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Good work for the past year.
Happy bday!
Ryan Fischer (Who am I?)
3 months ago
grats
Jim McNelis (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Wow I wish I had this charger with me this weekend… I took my iPhone 3G on a 3 day hike to take pictures. If I had this solar charger, I would have been able to use the GPS, Internet, and Phone features without worrying about running out of battery. I would have been cool to rock out to some tunes while hiking, too.
Andrew Meyers (Who am I?)
3 months ago
I could definitely use this thing when I am on the road for work. I always seem to run out of battery at the WRONG time.
Chris (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats! You guys rock! Great work this past year!
mack (Who am I?)
3 months ago
i heart crunchgear. that is all.
Vivek Sinha (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Have been watching Solio for a long time, will be great to win one :)
Jameson (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy birthday. Free Shit is my middle name. Caused a lot of problems when I was younger.
nick (Who am I?)
3 months ago
happy happy
Matt (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Great site and luckily you are not firewalled at work so I can keep up with the news all day. This would come in extremely handy for a geek like me that always needs to be connected even when mountain biking or camping.
Kevin Donovan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats on two years.
David (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy B-day!
P Arora (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday. I’ve been a fan of Techcrunch network and start my day reading your blogs.
Dante (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Big congrats CrunchGear!
tone tone sunshine (Who am I?)
3 months ago
In the words of B&S, “Sunshine, we all see, the same sky.”
Guy (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy B-day CG!
Kelly (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy birthday CG!
Jason (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday! Giving away on YOUR birthday…very generous.
Heman (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday!!!
J Rob (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Alternate Titles:
“Sunny day, sweepin’ the clouds away”
“**Not for use in Great Britian or Seattle”
“Use stray photons from a nearby star to power your iPhone!”
Arroxane (Who am I?)
3 months ago
LOL
Ethan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy birthday!!
Ian Ellis (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats Crunch Gear! Here’s to another year of great stuff. Hopefully without the . . . you know.
Thinker (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy birthday…you guys rock!
Dan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats CG!
Dan (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Congrats CG!
Silicon Prairie (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday CG!
Since it is State Fair time in Iowa, I would love to win a gadget on a stick:)
Michael Jensen (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Happy Birthday CrunchGear!