Solar iPod charger
Bird Electron is developing a solar iPod charger to go on limited sale from May. The unit very sensibly comes with a battery built in, meaning you can charge that during the day and plug your iPod into it overnight. At the moment it apparently takes two fine days to get a full charge, but they reckon a single day's worth should be enough to cover you for a shortish commute. Obviously it's going to take years before the electricity savings pay for the charger, but the idea here is ecology rather than economy. Man.
Price should be somewhere in the Y15-20,000 range.
(Bird very brusquely states on its website that it doesn't sell overseas and can't respond to queries in English, by the way, so those overseas will have to be patient.)
[Via MYCOM PC WEB (Japanese)]
Posted by aragoto at April 02, 2004 08:18 PM | TrackBack