How about batteries that charges it self with no adapters and even a wall-plug? Well these concept Solar Batteries may be at a store near you soon. Duped as the SunCat batteries, designer/inventor Knut Karlsen recently unveiled an inspired approach to portable power that can’t be beat for its elegant simplicity: a prototype battery capable of charging itself when exposed to sunshine. His slick set of SunCat C-cells are wrapped in flexible photovoltaic panels and will slowly recharge when left to bask in the sun.
via – Inhabitat
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[...] although more slowly than their electric counterparts. Still, how cool is that? They’re called SunCat batteries. [...]
I have to wonder what shelf life these will have as we probably won’t need batteries too much longer as more and more products go solar