Solar Power Up Your iPhone

In January, I wrote about the YoGen, a hand-cranked power generator for portable devices. Pulling on the YoGen’s miniature outboard-motor-like chain to get a few minutes’ talk time was not a great experience, but another temporary power generator may be a better idea.

The Solar Surge, from NovoTek, uses the sun to charge an external supplemental battery enclosed in a case that surrounds the iPhone. According to the company, this is the first solar charging solution approved by Apple, and it works with the iPhone 3G and 3GS and the iPod Touch.

Lees verder in de NYT