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    Charge Your Phone with the Power of the Sun and Hello Kitty

    How to Make Your Own Solar iPhone/iPod Charger

    SOLiCharger Powers iPhones Through Every Means Under the Sun

    Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets

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    Image of Ursus Maritimus Ursus Maritimus
    10/28/09

    In reply to Charge Your Phone with the Power of the Sun and Hello Kitty
    I want the carabiner - perfect key chain! #hellokitty
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    10/28/09

    In reply to Charge Your Phone with the Power of the Sun and Hello Kitty
    Anybody else read the headline as Hello Titty due to the NSFW post below this one? No? Just me then... #hellokitty
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    Image of ilovexspin ilovexspin
    05/06/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Own Solar iPhone/iPod Charger
    I'm really getting sick of these "DIYs"

    It should be more like:

    DIY*


    *only if you have an extreme amount of skill and mad random products in your house.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/06/09

    @ilovexspin: Why all the hate? This is just like every other gadget posted here - it's something that is interesting and made by someone else. It's "DIY" because it's home made, not because you are supposed to make it yourself.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/06/09

    @ilovexspin: Not everyone is banging Richard Dean Anderson. I'd settle for Sam, b/c she's like MacGyver, only a chick.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/06/09

    In reply to How to Make Your Own Solar iPhone/iPod Charger
    Couldn't I just take the head off of one of my defunct solar walkway lights, and get the cell and all the electronics, and wire a USB connector to it?
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    05/06/09

    @HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave: Or just buy one from ThinkGeek, $50, ready to use.
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    Image of Franknbeans Franknbeans
    05/06/09

    @bosskev: Then you are not saving much moola, are you?


    GetEm: I guess that depends on why the lights are defunct huh?

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    05/06/09

    @Franknbeans: An odd number died on me, and they don't look good w/much of the set missing. The others have been sitting in a bucket, and still light up two years later. I was going to try to figure out if I could wire one to recharge 4 batteries to run my Scrubbin-Bubbles shower cleaner.
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    05/06/09

    @bosskev: You have no ideas the depth of my cheapness. I'm re-capping mobo's, I'm so cheap/pack-ratty.
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    Image of Franknbeans Franknbeans
    05/06/09

    @HeldForRansom_GitEmSteveDave:

    So I did some research on this one and it turns out that the answer is yes, but you might need to get an intermederary battery because the power from the small ones is so small. Same thing happened to me with the solar lights so I wanted to do the same thing, but no how-to for canibalists like us
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    05/07/09

    @Franknbeans: Mine have two AA batteries inside which the panel charges.
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    01/30/09

    In reply to SOLiCharger Powers iPhones Through Every Means Under the Sun
    Aron could've used one of these.
    [www.cnn.com]
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    01/30/09

    @TerryinSt.Paul: Did they have the iPhone in 2003?
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    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    This will be great for keeping my camera and GPS charged when I go backpacking...I'll certainly have to pick one of these up before I go to Peru next summer.
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    12/23/08

    @superbryant: Peru is the tits!


    Stay near the Plaza De Armas in Cuzco, the nighlife is really good, and that whole area isn't nearly as dangerous as it looks.


    Check at the prices at at least 6 hotels in Auguas Calientes (I presume you are going to Machu Picchu?) before you pick one (the prices are in constant flux there and the best deal for a room one day may be a total ripoff a week later).


    Take at least one day trip to a small town in the country side (for some sort of religious festival if there are any while you are there).

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    Image of acuraboytl acuraboytl
    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    After my flux capacitor is repaired, this device will serve me well by charging my iPhone when I arrive in the 1700s. Now, if only someone could invent a portable AT&T network…


    P.S. If you are interested in time travel, meet me last Thursday.

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    12/23/08

    @acuraboytl: I was there last Thursday where the fcuk were you?
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    Image of bdgbill bdgbill
    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    Energizer makes the absolute worst NIMH battery chargers. I can't imagine their solar variety is any better.


    I was constantly throwing away rechargeable batteries that two different energizer chargers said were "bad". I finaly bought a decent charger that even resurected batteries that had not been charged for over 2 years.

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    Image of butaneko butaneko
    12/23/08

    @bdgbill:


    Yeah I have the same issues. What recharger are you using now?


    Lemme lemme upgrade

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    12/23/08

    @butaneko: Would also like to know what charger you are using now.


    I have had:



    This one charged really quick, but the batteries seemed to go bad after fewer charge cycles when I used the batts in this one regularly.


    I had another quick charger as well that was marketed as a travel charger (when in fact it had a huge power brick, I can't find a pic of that one but it had one batt on each edge of a square.


    I am currently using a large 8 battery desktop slow charger that seems to work pretty well, it takes forever (~8hrs) to charge fully drained batts but I haven't had any more batts go bad since I started using this charger.


    But my entire fleet of Energizer Li-on regargables are getting pretty old and need to be replaced soon, I am thinking I will probably go with Eneloop, and input on that?

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    Meh, too pricy.


    I got one of these spiffy little things and it works WONDERS! ^_^ Far cheaper, too!


    [cgi.ebay.com]

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    12/23/08

    @Zaxxon Q Blaque: *Engrish Alert*
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    12/23/08

    @highfloydelity: "Item Most time will arrive In 7-14 Days,(not include Saturday and Sunday).But sometimes It will takes a little bit Longer .pls waiting for its coming with great patience."
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    12/23/08

    @highfloydelity: "Ashopone Store"?!?


    Holy shit, too many jokes, can't decide which one to use...


    *seizes*

    *seizes*

    *seizes*

    *seizes*

    *seizes*

    *seizes*

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    Image of seamonkey420 seamonkey420
    12/23/08

    @Zaxxon Q Blaque:


    wow, another item on ebay from china that prob doesn't work.. no thanks..


    i'll stick w/energizers version.

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    12/23/08

    @seamonkey420: I have it... it works great... please re-read my post. :-P
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    Image of Stacky Botrus Stacky Botrus
    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    This is so stupid. Why would you use the power of the sun to assist in recharging batteries? Just plug it into ANY wall outlet that might be in or around (or someone elses) home.


    I bet residents of Alaska are buying these RIGHT up.


    holyshitwhatdidijustsaywtf

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    12/23/08

    @Stacky Botrus: Aren't they in their six months of night now?
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    12/23/08

    @Stacky Botrus: When I'm treading the desert sands of Dubai looking to charge my camera, I'll be sure to plug it into the existing wall outlet of the third dune on the right. Or when I'm out camping and need to juice my phone I might be able to transfer the energy into my cell by drinking my own urine.


    Mmmmm .... power urine.

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    12/23/08

    @The Ghost of Charles Bronson: Is that why you eat PowerBars?
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    12/23/08

    @The Ghost of Charles Bronson: Urine POWAH Activate!
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    Image of judacris judacris
    12/23/08

    In reply to Energizer Solar Recharger Will Juice Up Your Batteries, USB Gadgets
    Ah, the power of the Sun.

    I'm assuming iPod cables (or most other cables, for that matter) aren't included. Bring your Own?
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    Image of TendoMentis TendoMentis
    12/23/08

    @judacris: Uh, no. Just use the USB cable that came with your device.


    Why on earth would they include every USB cable you might ever need if you owned every device that could be recharged off this thing?

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    12/23/08

    @TendoMentis:


    I was going to say something, but everything I wrote sounded like I was being a dick.

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    12/23/08

    @feckineejit: Thanks for censoring yourself, you need live up to the reputation of your avatar, I would be crushed if the guy with the weighted companion cube avatar was a dick.
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