God has given us enough sources to sustain a comfortable lifestyle. But humans are exploiting them in their quest to have power over everything, more than their share. And this can be termed as the second definition of luxury. Seeking comfort in a stylish manner by splurging is the general definition of luxury. However today I am on a mission to validate that we can indulge in luxury with out a guilt conscience by listing scores of nifty solar innovations. It is known that each hour enough sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface to meet the world’s energy demand for an entire year. If only this source is tapped the right way, we can reverse our electric meter and save millions to splurge on many more luxurious green options. And if you are thinking that Sun’s energy can only be used to heat water or burn a paper (like we did as kids with a magnifying glass), then open up your eyes to the most remarkable solar powered innovations to lead a opulent lifestyle.
12) Solar powered fashion for eco-divas
The Solar Bikini cools your beer and charges your iPod with a USB connection! The iDrink swimware line is meant for the hi-tech beach lovers who don’t leave for the beach without their iPod/ MP3 player and chargeable gadgets in toe. While the Triumph Solar Swimsuit is a unique beachwear entrenches solar panels on the front to harness sufficient solar power to charge small gadgets, such as an iPod or cellphone. And take a look at this beautiful and green (literally) bra-and-knickers set created by lingerie giants Triumph which actually made it to the brand’s official Autumn/Winter collection. The bra has a waist-mounted solar panel that powers a small, chest-mounted electronic billboard or any other electronic device you choose to connect. After the green innerwear and swimwear, you can wear your eco-consciousness and geeky attitude with bang with the Day-for-Night. It is a reconfigurable dress that comprises of 448 white circuit boards which can vary depending on the length of the dress. Each tile accommodates a solar cell, a RGB LED, or a photocell, and jumper connectors. A control board and a USB controller in the dress provides power, and links to a computer via RF so that you can use the solar energy soaked in the day to charge at night time. Accessorize it with Solarjo power purse and low battery will never be a problem again.
12) Solar powered fashion for eco-divas
The Solar Bikini cools your beer and charges your iPod with a USB connection! The iDrink swimware line is meant for the hi-tech beach lovers who don’t leave for the beach without their iPod/ MP3 player and chargeable gadgets in toe. While the Triumph Solar Swimsuit is a unique beachwear entrenches solar panels on the front to harness sufficient solar power to charge small gadgets, such as an iPod or cellphone. And take a look at this beautiful and green (literally) bra-and-knickers set created by lingerie giants Triumph which actually made it to the brand’s official Autumn/Winter collection. The bra has a waist-mounted solar panel that powers a small, chest-mounted electronic billboard or any other electronic device you choose to connect. After the green innerwear and swimwear, you can wear your eco-consciousness and geeky attitude with bang with the Day-for-Night. It is a reconfigurable dress that comprises of 448 white circuit boards which can vary depending on the length of the dress. Each tile accommodates a solar cell, a RGB LED, or a photocell, and jumper connectors. A control board and a USB controller in the dress provides power, and links to a computer via RF so that you can use the solar energy soaked in the day to charge at night time. Accessorize it with Solarjo power purse and low battery will never be a problem again.
11) Solar powered Showers
An outdoor shower can be so refreshing! And if it’s solar powered then it can refresh your green spirits too. The solar powered Emoe garden shower cylindrical sensor accumulates heat from sunlight and water returns to desired temperature. Its reservoir has a capacity of 25 L, so your whole family can enjoy consecutive showers. While the SunShower is the latest on the list of solar powered outdoor showers. Innovatively designed shower panel flaunts wonderful architecture to elevate your patio’s looks. Connect it with a garden hose and it is capable of providing a constant regulated flow of solar heated water and when you are done it stores the water for your next shower.
10) Solar WiFi TeePees
The luxurious solar WiFi TeePees in the Yukon offers you all the goodness of a reasonably comfy hotel room right in the lap of Mother Nature. With each tent fitted with two queen beds, an individual sitting and reading area, a fireplace center piece, personal dresser, original art, complimentary stocked bar, a variety of non - alcoholic drinks, a vanity table, two DVD players with wireless headsets, satellite radio, a spa, wireless internet access and a personal ‘outhouse’ for each teepee and, the service certainly makes you feel right at home even in the middle of nowhere.
An outdoor shower can be so refreshing! And if it’s solar powered then it can refresh your green spirits too. The solar powered Emoe garden shower cylindrical sensor accumulates heat from sunlight and water returns to desired temperature. Its reservoir has a capacity of 25 L, so your whole family can enjoy consecutive showers. While the SunShower is the latest on the list of solar powered outdoor showers. Innovatively designed shower panel flaunts wonderful architecture to elevate your patio’s looks. Connect it with a garden hose and it is capable of providing a constant regulated flow of solar heated water and when you are done it stores the water for your next shower.
10) Solar WiFi TeePees
The luxurious solar WiFi TeePees in the Yukon offers you all the goodness of a reasonably comfy hotel room right in the lap of Mother Nature. With each tent fitted with two queen beds, an individual sitting and reading area, a fireplace center piece, personal dresser, original art, complimentary stocked bar, a variety of non - alcoholic drinks, a vanity table, two DVD players with wireless headsets, satellite radio, a spa, wireless internet access and a personal ‘outhouse’ for each teepee and, the service certainly makes you feel right at home even in the middle of nowhere.
9) Solar powered bags and cases
Everyone needs a little extra power to charge their cellphones, media players and laptop…as they keep running out of their juice all the time. So coming from Eclipse Solar Gear, this solar powered laptop case can generate enough solar energy to charge even your laptop. While the Voltaic Generator solar bag is also a powerful option charge a laptop. It uses high efficiency solar cells to generate maximum power to juice up most of your gadgetry. For $600, it can encase a 17″ powerbook inside its protective case. And lastly the Opti Metal solar briefcase$1,500) looks like a standard business briefcase but actually houses a powerful portable solar charger that can easily juice up your laptop, cell phone and other portables. With a standard solar panel on top and Li-ion batteries and chargers housed in the base, the Metal can provide up to 75 watts of power on a full charge. (
Everyone needs a little extra power to charge their cellphones, media players and laptop…as they keep running out of their juice all the time. So coming from Eclipse Solar Gear, this solar powered laptop case can generate enough solar energy to charge even your laptop. While the Voltaic Generator solar bag is also a powerful option charge a laptop. It uses high efficiency solar cells to generate maximum power to juice up most of your gadgetry. For $600, it can encase a 17″ powerbook inside its protective case. And lastly the Opti Metal solar briefcase$1,500) looks like a standard business briefcase but actually houses a powerful portable solar charger that can easily juice up your laptop, cell phone and other portables. With a standard solar panel on top and Li-ion batteries and chargers housed in the base, the Metal can provide up to 75 watts of power on a full charge. (
8) Solar powered tables for eco-geeks
Sun Table ($3,600) is covered in solar panels and is able to produce enough electricity to power your laptop and other electronic paraphernalia, even a television and DVD player. The maximum storage for its battery is 13 amps hours at 12 volts and it gets charged in three hours under full sunlight. To be more precise, the Sun Table allows for three hours of laptop use, and a couple hours of television. While the $2,200 Sun table (same name but different table) is also the perfect outdoor workstation which will enable you to simultaneously charge your laptops, cellphones, stereos and other gadgetry that occupies your workstation space. This one features unbreakable 64 Watt multicrystalline tilting solar panel somewhat like a piano and it fully charges in 4 hours of direct sunlight. And the differently christened SOLo Lounge Table by iF combines the functionality of an eco-friendly solar panel with minimalist modern design that befits the tag of the ideal lounge table. Using Bluetooth technology, SOLo collects distributes and exhibits information on the tabletop LCD display as well as between computers and on the internet via a wireless connection. The recharging credentials of the SOLo let you charge your PMPs and laptops via three USB ports as the silicon cells embedded in its glass surface of the table collect and convert solar energy into 17+ kilowatts of clean, green electricity. In the evening, the internal LED lights of the table provide an intimate glow that makes this lounge table a truly high end furnishing.
With such green table options, you don’t have an excuse to convert your backyard into an office.
Sun Table ($3,600) is covered in solar panels and is able to produce enough electricity to power your laptop and other electronic paraphernalia, even a television and DVD player. The maximum storage for its battery is 13 amps hours at 12 volts and it gets charged in three hours under full sunlight. To be more precise, the Sun Table allows for three hours of laptop use, and a couple hours of television. While the $2,200 Sun table (same name but different table) is also the perfect outdoor workstation which will enable you to simultaneously charge your laptops, cellphones, stereos and other gadgetry that occupies your workstation space. This one features unbreakable 64 Watt multicrystalline tilting solar panel somewhat like a piano and it fully charges in 4 hours of direct sunlight. And the differently christened SOLo Lounge Table by iF combines the functionality of an eco-friendly solar panel with minimalist modern design that befits the tag of the ideal lounge table. Using Bluetooth technology, SOLo collects distributes and exhibits information on the tabletop LCD display as well as between computers and on the internet via a wireless connection. The recharging credentials of the SOLo let you charge your PMPs and laptops via three USB ports as the silicon cells embedded in its glass surface of the table collect and convert solar energy into 17+ kilowatts of clean, green electricity. In the evening, the internal LED lights of the table provide an intimate glow that makes this lounge table a truly high end furnishing.
With such green table options, you don’t have an excuse to convert your backyard into an office.
7) Solar powered Husqvarna robotic lawnmower
Everything around us is going green and lawnmowers are no exception now. Husqvarna, one of the world’s largest lawnmower manufacturers presents the autonomous electric solar-powered hybrid robotic lawn mower that will do your lawn quietly with nearly zero emissions. This lawnmower is able to mow up to 2300 square meters of grass and can be programmed to come on at certain times or days of the week. After 40 minutes of hard work in your lawn, the solar-powered mower returns to the charging base. Moreover, it won’t hurt your garden furniture, thanks to the embedded sensors. At £2,000 ($4,000), the Husqvarna’s eco-friendly lawnmower looks to be a bargain for a professionally cut lawn.
Everything around us is going green and lawnmowers are no exception now. Husqvarna, one of the world’s largest lawnmower manufacturers presents the autonomous electric solar-powered hybrid robotic lawn mower that will do your lawn quietly with nearly zero emissions. This lawnmower is able to mow up to 2300 square meters of grass and can be programmed to come on at certain times or days of the week. After 40 minutes of hard work in your lawn, the solar-powered mower returns to the charging base. Moreover, it won’t hurt your garden furniture, thanks to the embedded sensors. At £2,000 ($4,000), the Husqvarna’s eco-friendly lawnmower looks to be a bargain for a professionally cut lawn.
6) Solar powered Sharp LCD TV
To make its mark in the solar industry, Sharp has come up with a prototype of a 26-inch LCD Aquos TV that can be powered entirely by the sun. If put to production, it will be a blessing for those who are deprived of electrical power supply. The set has a contrast ratio of 10000:1 and a 20mm thick display panel. It requires about 30% less power than regular LCD TVs and gets its juice from one of Sharp’s triple-junction thin-film solar cell modules. The modules are about the same size as the television’s screen. Sharp intends to get this completely solar powered LCD to the shelves soon.
To make its mark in the solar industry, Sharp has come up with a prototype of a 26-inch LCD Aquos TV that can be powered entirely by the sun. If put to production, it will be a blessing for those who are deprived of electrical power supply. The set has a contrast ratio of 10000:1 and a 20mm thick display panel. It requires about 30% less power than regular LCD TVs and gets its juice from one of Sharp’s triple-junction thin-film solar cell modules. The modules are about the same size as the television’s screen. Sharp intends to get this completely solar powered LCD to the shelves soon.
5) Solar powered Tech Chair for the flashy geeks
Holidaying and relaxing no longer suggests bidding adieu to your must-have gizmos. And to cater to such clientele, experts at computer retailer PC World have come up with the Tech Chair concept. To start with, its features an automatic sunshade that moves with the sun to protect you from the harshness of sunrays while it feeds on the same energy to juice up all your gadgets. Befitted with techie stuff like speakers, WI-FI or Bluetooth connectivity and sockets to plug in your MP3s and other devices, it is the best rocking yet relaxing place to laze on. Moreover you can plug in your camera to instantly download your holiday snaps. It caters to the gamers too as there is a docking station for game consoles. And for bloggers like me, who want to keep a check on what’s hot in the blogoshpere, at every time of the day, there is a laptop table that slides along the chair. Just a GPS text reservation system allows you to secure this eco-friendly yet high-tech lounger for relaxing in geek style.
Holidaying and relaxing no longer suggests bidding adieu to your must-have gizmos. And to cater to such clientele, experts at computer retailer PC World have come up with the Tech Chair concept. To start with, its features an automatic sunshade that moves with the sun to protect you from the harshness of sunrays while it feeds on the same energy to juice up all your gadgets. Befitted with techie stuff like speakers, WI-FI or Bluetooth connectivity and sockets to plug in your MP3s and other devices, it is the best rocking yet relaxing place to laze on. Moreover you can plug in your camera to instantly download your holiday snaps. It caters to the gamers too as there is a docking station for game consoles. And for bloggers like me, who want to keep a check on what’s hot in the blogoshpere, at every time of the day, there is a laptop table that slides along the chair. Just a GPS text reservation system allows you to secure this eco-friendly yet high-tech lounger for relaxing in geek style.
4) Solar-Powered Personal Boat
If solar speed boat is not your style then go for the Solar-Powered Personal Boat. This four seater can features ergonomic seating and a 700-watt electric motor that is powered by four deep cycle batteries that are constantly recharged by the sun during daylight hours and even when it is overcast, because the batteries hold up to a 6-hour charge. The boat features fiberglass hull and powder-coated aluminum superstructure that holds the solar panel. Just like its brilliant features the boat is priced at an equally rich price tag of $10,500.
If solar speed boat is not your style then go for the Solar-Powered Personal Boat. This four seater can features ergonomic seating and a 700-watt electric motor that is powered by four deep cycle batteries that are constantly recharged by the sun during daylight hours and even when it is overcast, because the batteries hold up to a 6-hour charge. The boat features fiberglass hull and powder-coated aluminum superstructure that holds the solar panel. Just like its brilliant features the boat is priced at an equally rich price tag of $10,500.
3) Solar Powered Sea Limousine
The Solar Powered Sea Limousine is designed and developed by Dennis Ingemansson. This idea is based on “The World” located in Dubai - a society with new needs of marine transportation between artificial islands. This concept powered with solar cells integrated in the window skin and moves forward with hovercraft. This vehicle is controlled by a satellite navigation system, therefore no human pilot. This solar concept delivers a new dimension of discrete sea limousine in terms of green luxury yacht design.
2) World’s first solar speedboat - Czeers MK1
Touted as the World’s first solar speedboat, this winner of a solar challenge contest has attracted serious investment power from Rabobank to get a full scale test boat built. Dubbed as the Czeers MK1 Solar Speedboat, this speeding beauty gets its fuel from one of the most abundant energy found on the seas that is Sun. Crafted from 100% carbon fiber and inlaid with leather trim, its isn’t surprising to find every inch of this power boat to be covered with photovoltaic cells on the surface that is. This boat’s 80kw electric engine is powered by the electric battery as the 10-meter boat manages to pack in 14 square meters of solar panels. Affixed with a LCD touch-screen control system this zooming green baby was launched at the Millionaire Fair in 2007, and has since proven itself up to 30 knots on the water. Though the price tag of this eco-friendly speedy isn’t mentioned, I’m sure if you want to own it; you’d have to shell out loads of green bills as price is strictly on request.
Touted as the World’s first solar speedboat, this winner of a solar challenge contest has attracted serious investment power from Rabobank to get a full scale test boat built. Dubbed as the Czeers MK1 Solar Speedboat, this speeding beauty gets its fuel from one of the most abundant energy found on the seas that is Sun. Crafted from 100% carbon fiber and inlaid with leather trim, its isn’t surprising to find every inch of this power boat to be covered with photovoltaic cells on the surface that is. This boat’s 80kw electric engine is powered by the electric battery as the 10-meter boat manages to pack in 14 square meters of solar panels. Affixed with a LCD touch-screen control system this zooming green baby was launched at the Millionaire Fair in 2007, and has since proven itself up to 30 knots on the water. Though the price tag of this eco-friendly speedy isn’t mentioned, I’m sure if you want to own it; you’d have to shell out loads of green bills as price is strictly on request.
1) Solar and Human Powered Concept Boat
This good-looking solar and human powered boat designed by Jonathan Mahieddine can seat 4 people on the benches of the circular cockpit. In case of a general tiredness, pedalers can lift up and seek help from the sun to lighten their efforts. The umbrella of the eco boat boasts a solar panel connected to batteries that supply an electric motor hidden in the top of the tower. Whether pedaled or in hybrid mode, the bracket is connected to a shaft leading to two propellers at the bow of the boat. The two bars connected to the rudder are located in facing back of the bench. Every detail is impressive, but unfortunately, we just need to sit back and wait, as this solar and human powered boat is just a concept for now.
This good-looking solar and human powered boat designed by Jonathan Mahieddine can seat 4 people on the benches of the circular cockpit. In case of a general tiredness, pedalers can lift up and seek help from the sun to lighten their efforts. The umbrella of the eco boat boasts a solar panel connected to batteries that supply an electric motor hidden in the top of the tower. Whether pedaled or in hybrid mode, the bracket is connected to a shaft leading to two propellers at the bow of the boat. The two bars connected to the rudder are located in facing back of the bench. Every detail is impressive, but unfortunately, we just need to sit back and wait, as this solar and human powered boat is just a concept for now.
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