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Tablets and On-Device Solar Power

Published on June 4, 2011 By admin

How close are we to powering our tablets with on-device solar cells? In a recent test I ran a tablet connected to the internet at an average 200 mW. That’s screen off, wifi connected and polling in the background to update emails, location, twitter and other processes. It’s nothing really surprising because most of the [...]

A Solar-Powered PC for 2010.

Published on January 31, 2010 By Steve Chippy Paine

I’d love to get out an do another Solar Computing Tour in 2010 but I’ll have to plan it carefully. Our new baby is due in March so maybe I can pull a long weekend together in late August but we’ll have to see how things go. It doesn’t stop me thinking about solar computing [...]