Gizmodo
The Boblbee Solar is a weatherproof iPod case made for adventurers. Fully droppable and wettable, the Boblbee Solar can take its share of the hard knock life. But its real trick is a curved solar panel, making the most of surface area for a charge cycle that should be about 8 to 10 hours on a sunny day. Eight to 10 hours is not so bad, especially when you realize the iPod nano is rated for 24 hours of use.
In other words, the Boblbee could recharge the nano up to three times before your battery is able to drain once. And for those in the wilderness, the music never has to stop. Infinite playback without a wall socket? That's incredible. The Boblbee Solar isn't priced yet, but keep your eye on the product link if you are interested in a purchase. [product via tfts]
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I want one!!!
Can you listen to your iPod while charging it?
Or use the controls?
Where is the iPod itself, anyway?
Yeah - it could recharge three times in that 24 hour period ... if you live in the arctic circle. Now Alaskans know what they can do with everlasting sunlight and their new iPod Nano.
That is an amazing trick for it to recharge the iPod while I am treking and camping in the Seattle area. While we do occasionally get sun, we have these little green things that grow out of the ground everywhere that block it.
Still, it is a great concept, especially for folks that are hiking up glaciers and such. Not that you should be listening to music while hiking up a glacier, mind you.
Damn, Google webpage translations are horrible! ;-)
I like the choice of colors, I'm concerned that it won't fit my 60gb ipod color although; "charging sprouts the unit. It will open the poison and iPod it will stab only in the whole aspect coupler of the main body inside and".
Hot, now I can go camping and just look for iPods sitting around in the sun (zoink).
Mark, WTF? Okay, so let's say it gets eight hours of sunlight. Is that enough to fully recharge the battery? Charges from sunlight? Sure. Charges *completely* from eight hours of sunlight? I really can't tell from the Google translation that leads me to believe my iPod could be an alien life form that sprouts poison from its internal organs.
Infinite? Pah. The battery will only last 5 billion years, and I bet it's not even replaceable!
well, Boblbee is a Swedish company, and they do get some days of 24 hr sunlight up there, so it kinda makes sense...
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