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Name: Infinit Solar Charger Bag

Type: Backback with solar-powered gadget charging technology

Price: £89.99 (Infinit)

The bag features a 2.4w photovoltaic solar panel on its outside to harvest the sun’s rays ,which it then stores in a high capacity 2000mAH Li-ion battery, safely stored away in a pouch inside. Detach the battery from the solar panel and you’re then free to use its stored energy to power hundreds and hundreds of devices using the myriad included connections. These include anything from a Nintendo DS to an iPhone or GPS device (click here to view the full list of compatible devices). You can even plug the battery into both the solar panel and the gadget to be charged at the same time, giving you continuous power providing you stay in quite strong sunlight. The battery can also be pre-charged from a mains supply if you want ready portable energy before you leave the house.

As the Summer sun slowly begins to peek through the ever-present layer of British cloud-cover, you’re probably looking to head on out, tastelessly displaying your milk bottle legs in a pair of shorts, beer in hand, ready to catch some rays. You’ll probably want to bring an MP3 player with you for a few tunes and your mobile to call your mates on too. But what if a technophile’s worst nightmare comes true and you suddenly find yourself without any battery power for your many gadgets? Enter the Infinit Solar Charger Bag to save the day.

It’s a great, green way to stay charged while on the go, and requires very little fuss to attach the many compatible devices it’s capable of powering. The battery itself has a great capacity, offering roughly enough power to charge an iPhone twice-over when it has maximum solar power stored. Charging the battery is not always a smooth process though; the length of time it takes to fully power up the battery is very dependant on the amount of sunlight you expose the solar panel to. On a day of bright weather it hit maximum capacity within a reasonable 8 hours, but on a dark, wet, overcast day it was closer to 11 or 12 hours, give or take. It’s also worth noting that the Infinit Solar Charger Bags currently don’t support charging abilities for laptops or netbooks, though Infinit have suggested this will be on the way in later designs.

As a rucksack, the Inifinit Solar Charger Bag can’t be knocked. It’s a little weighty at 1.4kg, thanks to the built-in solar panel, but it seems more spacious than its 25 litre capacity would suggest. There are copious amounts of pockets and pouches, including an elasticated spot for laptops up to 15 inches in size. Straps are heavily padded and adjustable, and there’s a clever mesh air-flow system for keeping your back cool while the bag is being carried. All in, it’s a well built bag that should easily see you through some rugged usage.

How useful you’ll find the Infinit Solar Charger Bag is, quite obviously, down to how much time you spend in the sun. It’s a great rucksack by conventional standards, with plenty of space and useful pockets, and it is very comfortable on the back, even during prolonged, intensive journeys. But if you live in a dreary corner of the world weather-wise, you may feel that the extra premium you pay for the solar tech wont be worth it. On the other hand, if you’re an outdoors type who is always out hiking, is looking to do a bit of globe-trotting or are even planning on attending a couple of music festivals this year then it really comes into its own, providing on-the-go power from Mother Nature herself.

More info about solar charger at:

https://solargoods.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/solar-plane-completes-26-hour-night-flight/

I have a cell phone whose battery dies very soon. I can hardly solve this problem. But recently, I’ve finally found a reliable way to charge my cell phone by using a portable solar charger. It has taken a lot of searching and the solution is not a total one. But it is the best effort I’ve seen yet.

I’ve been interested in solar chargers for years, and have tried some pretty awful kit in my time. That is awful in terms of it being unable to deliver on its promise of providing a reliable source of energy.

But at last I have found something that works well enough to be relied upon.

The Infinit Solar Charging Bag is a rucksack with a small solar panel built into it. This charges a battery which in turn can be used to charge any number of small devices.

The rucksack comes with charging tips for BlackBerry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG and Samsung handsets, a mini USB charging adaptor, Sony PSP Games Console adaptor and Nintendo DS Games Console adaptor. Apple fans can use their existing charter as the battery’s power-out socket is standard USB. You also get a mains power charger for the battery should you want to use it when the sun is not playing ball.

Actually, as I write this, it is overcast and raining, and so the solar cell won’t lap up much energy and won’t be able to give my mobile phone a power boost later on today. I will have to resort to the mains.

And, it has to be said, that even when the solar cell is working at full stretch, as it has been over the last few bright, warm days in London, the Infinit Solar Charging Bag can’t keep my phone away from mains power all the time. It is good enough for about half the charging I need.

Very importantly, the bag itself is very well made, has plenty of pockets, and is big enough to double as a weekend pack if you travel quite light. I’ve been happily using it to travel round London on business with no trouble. It’ll just about, at a pinch hold a laptop with a 15-inch screen.

More info about solar charger at:

https://solargoods.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/the-portable-solar-charger-green-cool-and-very-handy/


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