Friday, February 27, 2009

Solar powered cell phone

This seems like the way of the future. A cell phone with solar panels on the back, so you can recharge it. That could be brilliant.

Not only useful to all of us who get some of our electricity from coal and gas, in making our phone more environmentally friendly. But also in making it totally unnecessary to plug in a phone at all. You can take it to Africa and India and anywhere there's reception, and charge it up in the midday sun.

Granted, I spend most of the daylight hours in an office with no sunlight at all. And by the time I go home, there's nearly no daylight left. But still, it's a fantastic idea that makes loads of sense. I think just as most calculators are now solar powered, some day the idea of a mobile phone that's not solar powered will seem ridiculous.

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