Category Archives: Devices

Tablet Charging Update

Image by LGEPR on flickr. Tablet charging has been a top priority here at Voltaic. With the release of our V60 battery and updates to V11 and V39 batteries, it’s time to bring you up to speed on the compatibility …

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Solar Charger for GoPro – Update

In a previous post, we showed how you can charge GoPro Hero cameras from our solar chargers. Since this is such a popular device to charge, we did a bit more testing and discovered that you can charge a GoPro …

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Making the Array or OffGrid into a Solar Camera Bag

We tested two camera inserts to see how they fit in our Array Solar Laptop Charger and OffGrid Solar Backpack. Here’s the short video: We tested the Domke 414 ($57 from B&H) which fits firmly inside the Array and safely …

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Charging the Kindle Fire from Solar

The Kindle Fire, Amazon’s answer to the Barnes and Noble Nook Color, is a compact 7” color tablet device that occupies a middle ground between full fledged tablet PC and eReader. There are loads of product reviews out there, but …

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Ultrabooks are Made for Solar Charging

We’ve been following a new category of laptops called “ultrabooks.” Fast sales of both the MacBook Air and tablets in general finally convinced other manufacturers that there is a demand for thinner, lighter and generally more tablet-like laptops. What does …

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Flickr Top 50 Digital Cameras with Battery Model

We love all things photography here at Voltaic and want to help all you shutterbugs out there keep your digital cameras powered through the day with clean, renewable solar energy.  We’re expanding our selection of solar camera charging cradles based …

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Solar Light from Ikea: Sunnan

At Voltaic, we’re in the process of designing our own solar light and are constantly on the lookout for small scale solar lighting products that have made their way to market to see what we like and might do differently. …

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Charger for Nook Color

At CES earlier this year, we tested all of our batteries against the Nook Color and none of them seem to charge it…well it seems like we stumbled on a solution. (btw: We tested hundreds of devices that charged from …

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Choosing USB Pin Voltages for iPhones and iPads

We continually make minor tweaks to the USB output of our batteries to make sure we charge as many devices as possible. We pay particular attention to Apple products and now, with the introduction of the iPad, it has become …

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Video Interview with Spark on TUAW

TUAW did a video interview of us with the Spark, our new iPad charger, in New York’s Union Square Park. Here’s the video: The original post is here.

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