Location: somewhere in Nevada along the off-road, Tennessee to Oregon Trans-America Trail

Runs: Garmin 276c (note, this GPS unit can’t be recharged via its car charger, but it can run off power from either the panels or the bag’s internal battery).

Mike told us, “Worked like a charm…I only used it after the internal battery lost power and/or I couldn’t recharge it; however, this ended up being about 6-7 times over the course of 21 days.”

For some great pictures of adventure motorcycle riding, see www.advrider.com

Location: South of San Diego

Charges: Backup power for portable satellite antenna, VoIP phone, satellite phone, wireless router, PDA, GPS device, interoperable radio bridge.

U.S. Marines used this CommsPack to create a data and radio communications network with equipment carried in and powered by the backpack during an emergency management exercise. The pack included a satellite terminal for Internet access and inter-agency radio bridging in remote areas.

Location: Beijing

Charges: Sony Ericsson GSM

“Backpack [was a] big hit in Beijing and Shenzhen.“

Locations: Texas to Mexico

“I sent all my phone chargers home and was able to charge all my devices without problems.”

Location: Madagascar

Charges: ASUS PDA for recording bed net usage data

Moving to electronic data gathering meant they received “preliminary results in three days after the results came in” instead of “six weeks to two months” with paper based systems.

Location: Palm Springs, CA

Charges: Concert goers phones and iPods

See more photos from the Energy FACTory at Coachella 2008.

Video on Dvice. “Vanessa explores the idea of going “eco-sexy” with some green portables, including a hand-crank charger, a handheld wind turbine and, the emerald aphrodisiac, a backpack with a solar panel.”

Locations: much of Europe, Chile, Peru, Tanzania and Mozambique. Next up, Hong Kong

Charges: iPod, Canon camera

Location: Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Charges:

“Yours truly, revealing the secret to keeping my digital devices active and connected: Voltaic Systems solar backpack.”

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