Location: Rural area of Les Cayes Solar Charges: Blackberries and Walkie Talkies (both Mini USB adapters). Joshua from goodeater was part of a team conducting interviews with refugees from Port-au-Prince to assess their needs.
Location: Where: Sela (or Se pass), the mountain pass from West Kameng district into Tawang. It is all in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. Charges: The Oxford University Expedition Team used the Generator to power a …
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Location: Jacksonville, OR, home of our friends at Rain Tech who make rain water control products. Charges: “I love this thing. I take it out in the field with me to keep my phone, camera and WiFi connection charged up.”
Charges: Cell phones and used in venom extraction (yes, that’s a first for us) Location: South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Syria, Costa Rica, Fiji, Belize, USA and Bahamas. “Fell in the ocean in Mozambique and continued to work, …
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Location: Mt. Acongcagua, Argentina — 13,300 to 18,000 feet Charges: Acer Aspire One, Yaesu Radios, Sat phones “and of course iPods” The Climb for Prostate team from British Columbia set out to raise over $100,000 for prostate research and climb …
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Location: Arusha National Park in Tanzania, during a two-year volunteer assignment Charges: Nokia N85 and PSP — “The backpack is great for emergency charging and just in general to charge my phone or psp when there’s power cuts (which is …
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Charges: The iPhone that took this picture Location: On the roof of the Long Island City, YMCA. Voltaic was privileged to take part in a pilot program for Cool Roofs in New York City. A crew of volunteers recruited through …
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Location: A poster promoting a bank’s rewards program found inside the NYC subway. We found this amusing because one of our employees rides around Manhattan with a very cool Strida folding bike and of course a solar backpack, often this …
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Location: Parramos, Guatemala Northwest of Antigua Charges: iPod, locally purchased LG phone and Kodak camera — “We spend a lot of time in the rural villages and are always on the road so the bag helps a lot.“
Location: Nimrod Fortress, see here Charges: iPhone. Steve, graphic designer and web architect at Giant Jellyfish tells us his solar backpack “Kept my iphone going for a couple of days hiking and camping”