You might find solar panels as very unfashionable pieces of gadgetry. You know, those odd looking black crystal looking panels that are shaped into rectangular slabs. It could ruin your style of sophistication and modernity that you embodied into every piece of gadget that you owned.
The SOLARFAN is a green gadget that wouldn’t cramp up your style. It has a white Appleish look that you love which will surely catch the attention of others. The solar module where the energy is harvested from the sun’s rays doesn’t look like a reflective broken piece of black glass. It has a look that is similar to a speaker grill or the head of a microphone. Instead of having one slab of solar panel, this uses a fan mechanism which spreads into four when fully opened. It has a maximum power output of 2W and output voltage of 5V. You can let this expose under the sun and store the energy on two AA hydrogen-nickel cells that are specifically designed by AmbienTec to hold charge even for long periods of storage. You just have to connect a USB cable from the SOLARFAN to charge your iPod, cellphones or even to run your USB water fountain.
Three minutes of charging gives your cellphone about 10 minutes of talk time or 3 hours of standby time.
If you like being out in the sun and always have the tendency to not charge your gadget or hates when you run out of battery out in the open, then this could certainly fit you.
Plants were the source of harnessing solar energy to convert it into something else. Plants convert the sun’s rays into food in the form of plant sugar. Then the brainchild of the concept Vivien Muller might have the idea of “why not copy nature’s design?” and make it fashionable and hip to fit to any modern home. The whole set is supposed to work like Lego pieces that connect with one another. Detachable branches connect to the main trunk, then the twigs into the branches and so on until it connects to the “leaf” which contains the solar panels that collect energy – just like a real tree.
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