Better Energy Systems Solio Review

In 150 million years , theSoliosolar gadget charger from Better Energy Systems will be completely useless . By that time , our sun will likely have burned itself out , rendering all these hippy - type solar gadgets useless . Take that , hippies !

as luck would have it for us , the Solio is not a dreadlocked follower of the String Cheese Incident . It ’s well suited to a roomful of irrationally profuse Mac - o - philes , and this is precisely why the gimmick made its first American coming into court at MacWorld San Francisco . The white shell intend it ’ll match your blank laptop , white iPod , white-hot socks , and white rolling paper .

The Solio , however , would rather not be indoors of anything : you ’ve got to be outside on a sunny day for this affair to work by rights , a fact which makes its British origins something of a mystery . On a sun - drenched California Clarence Day , this little trefoil - determine courser behaves like a champ . On a typically rainy London daylight however , this gadget is ineffective to show off its sunny inclination .

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But all is well , as the Solio also functions as a portable battery . It take quite a while to saddle said electric battery in the sunshine , anywhere from six to nine minute , but the included AC arranger makes that something of a debatable full point . just plug it in , and you ’ve got around four superfluous hour of iPod listening tuck away in your pocket .

Thanks to a whole mess of connectors , the Solio can also charge a myriad of cell phones , PDA ’s , and MP players . There ’s even an adapter for your GameBoy , something that can make playingBoktai 2 : Solar Boy Django , a solar - witting videogame , an almost zen experience .

The unit itself is fairly sturdy , and it comes with a convenient hole down the center . This is project to allow a pencil to be poke through as a prop , but I had a little trouble keeping it all steady like this . Perhaps it was the booze , but the Solio feel rather slippery . I also found that the thing was n’t terribly happy unless it was pointed now at the sun at all times .

Therein lies the only issue with the Solio . charge it on sunlight is something of a chore . Just go out it on the windowsill wo n’t fulfil it up , and look on the skies , it might not do much at all . Also , you ’ll have to buy the various adapters you ’ll need for your phone , PDA , and vibrator singly , though there is a elevator car - dash adapter that may work if you have those adapters for your gear .

If you ’re often in the Wood , or aside from release , the Solio will make your life much easy . Just pray that the skies are unmortgaged overhead , because cloud dally hell with solar powered iPods in the wild .

See also : Better Energy Systems Solio Solar Powered Charger[iPodlounge ] ( I stole your pic , Jeremy . Sorry ! -joel )

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