Tech: What the world needs next: Solar-powered laptops
- This needs to exist someday: As anyone with a laptop already knows, the worst possible place to use a machine like this is in the sun, because the screen is hard to see and you have to pump up the brightness to even compete, meaning that you’ll lose a ton of battery life in the process. But in this concept by designer Andrea Ponti, it actually works with the sun, using it as a source of energy thanks to its built-in solar panels. The Luce Solar Panel Powered PC, a shortlisted entry in Fujitsu’s 2011 design competition, has a battery but doesn’t include a secondary power source, meaning it’s all solar. Which is awesome. source