Rocking Chair

How about a comfortable chair that you can read your favorite book in for hours after dark – without worrying about draining the batteries of your solar system? Well, here it is!



”Designer Rochus Jacob has harnessed all that wasted kinetic energy created by gently rocking in the chair and has used advanced nano-dynamo technology built into the skids of the chair to power a reading lamp above the user’s head. And the lamp shade itself is actually the light source – it’s created from OLEDs. Thankfully, the flat and bendable organic light emitting diodes don’t require much power to deliver enough light to make reading enjoyable.

If you use the chair during the day a battery pack stores that energy for night-time, which means you can read without rocking, if you want to."

From gizmag.com

Bladeless fan

Aircondition units are very power hungry and can’t be run off of solar panels for that very reason. I have personally lived in a hot climate with no airconditioning available and so I know first hand the importance of good fans. You don’t often hear of new innovations in the fan business. And that is why I thought this video was quite fascinating.

E-books in the sun

You may have read about all the new e-book readers out there, with Amazon’s Kindle leading the pack, and begun craving one for yourself. But, since you are reading this blog, chances are that you are living in a place where electric power is a constant challenge. That is why we like solar powered stuff here at Jungle Gadgets.

I therefore think I have found the perfect e-book reader for you – the LG Display. It is solar powered and four to five hours of sun exposure yields an additional day's worth of reading time. You can read inside too, of course, thanks to the battery, but if you do that how will you show off the fact that you're on the cutting edge and hip with your e-book?

More info here.