A customer shows off her quiver of Voltaic solar panels at 13,440 feet. They were used to charge a Samsung netbook and other small devices.
Last Friday while we were winding down our day at our CES, a wearable technology fashion show was taking place at the Las Vegas mall. Produced by Living Digitally (thanks for thinking of us!) and curated by Project Runway alumnae …
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A customer reports that the Converter solar backpack is a “headturner” in Hawaii where she is using it to charge her iPhone.
A climate scientist has taken our Generator and Backpack (now the OffGrid) all around the world to charge just about everything. Past locations include Southern Africa and Nepal with Denali and Kilimanjaro on the list. The bags have been charging: …
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Thanks for a great year. Here’s where a few of our customers took us in 2010…we can’t wait to see where you’ll take us in 2011. Travelers and Adventurers The intrepid Donald Schultz wore our predecessor to the OffGrid solar …
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Brad Hodges is a frame builder of very sweet Nemesis Project cycles. He recently rode his self-designed bike from San Francisco to LA. He hooked up the Fuse Solar Charger to the back of the cycle and on his backpack …
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Andrew Skinner recently climbed Kilimanjaro to raise money for LimbPower, which supports amputees through sporting activities. Climbing Kilimanjaro would be difficult for most of us, but doing it as an amputee certainly makes it an extra challenge. In the picture, …
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A customer sent in this nice pic of a hike on a rail in the Adirondacks with the predecessor to the OffGrid solar backpack. The former marine says, “this pack beats any other pack hands down.”
Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger, is now working on a project called LifeEdited that seeks to radically reduce his carbon footprint. He was recently profiled by Cisco’s Digital Cribs and talks about how he uses his Voltaic solar backpack. Watch …
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Tom Kilian will be in Darfur and needs to power a GPS tracking device and an iPad full of humanitarian, trip planning and emergency information (no phone service where they are). This picture is from testing sessions in the States …
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