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Hyundai I-Flow Eco-Friendly Concept Car

At this years 2010 Geneva Motor Show Hyundai showed off its latest eco-friendly concept car, the I-Flow.  The car is downright stunning and shows that Hyundai wants a piece of the Japanese customer base.  The car is lightweight, has an adaptive front spoiler and side rocker, and solar panels.  Read on for details.

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Scosche solBAT II Solar Powered Backup Battery And Charger – Review

Let me start off this review by saying that Scosche has hit a home run with their solBAT II solar powered backup battery and charger.  There really isn’t much I would change on this solar powered gadget.  Read on for the full review.

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XPAL Solar Egg Charger

I hope that every cell phone, and gadget with batteries for that matter, will eventually have a solar panel integrated.  Until that happens gadgets like XPAL’s Solar Egg will have to do the job.  The Solar Egg is a small solar keychain that claims to work in natural light (doesn’t need tons of sun) [...]

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Scosche solBAT II – Add Solar Backup To Any USB Device For $30

The solBAT II is a backup battery that charges through its solar panel and stores the power for future charging of any USB device.
Position the solBAT II in the sun by mounting via suction cups or clip and the 1500mA solBAT II slowly charges.  When full the solBAT II puts out 5V through USB, [...]

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Pimp Your Yard With Solar Ball Lights

Perfect way to add some more bling to my Grandmas yard – solar balls!  They charge from the sun and will help to illuminate her garden gnomes in the night time.  You get a set of two for under $25 here.

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Xantrex Xpower Powerpack Solar Charging System

I love the idea of the Xantrex Xpower Powerpack 852-2071 solar battery charger and inverter.  It has two built in AC outlets, a USB port, a digital display, has a 400-watt inverter, and 12 volt DC outlet.  Yours for less than $129 here.  Read on for more details and pictures.

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Personal Desktop Hydrogen Station By Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies

Look for this amazing product at CES in Las Vegas in the next few days.  The Horizon HYDROFILL is basically a desktop hydrogen fueling station which will extract hydrogen from its water tank… and fill up small cartridges (basically mini hydrogen fuel cells).
This product is a bit of a big deal, this could mean [...]

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Panasonic Battery Powers Single Home For One Week

As battery technology continues to improve, so do the uses for the batteries.  Panasonic is working on a storage cell with enough capacity to power a standard Japanese home for a full week.
The home battery cell should be available in Japan in 2010 according to Panasonic President Fumio Otsubo.  Panasonic has already been working [...]

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Solar-Powered Go-Kart

Amazing… I wish I was a kid again.  A solar powered (more like solar charged) go-kart.  The electric go kart is powered by a 16Ah, 24V battery and 350 Watt DC motor and can reach speeds up to 15-mph. 
Features integrated 2×5W monocrystalline silicon solar panel that continuously recharges the go-kart’s 16Ah, 24V battery, [...]

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iPhone Solar Charging Case

You gotta love solar… free energy from the sun…  Well NovoThink agrees and has the first Apple certified solar charger case for the iPhone and iPod.  The NovoThink Surge is a plastic case for your iphone 3G or 3Gs that charges your iPhone via solar power. The case, at least in the pictures, looks [...]

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