Location: Omu hut and weather station West of Sinaia in the Transylvanian Alps of Romania (2500 meters).

Charges: iPod Nano and iRiver Clix. “We left our chargers at home for the trip. Here we got an hour of sun during a nice lunch break.”

Location: Top of Kilimanjaro

Charges: “It was a lifesaver - we charged our cameras and two cell phones in case we had to evacuate someone. In fact, without the Voltaic Backpack, we wouldn’t have been able to even take this picture! (since all cameras would have long since died)”

Location: On the window sill at the Manhattan headquarters of Green Order, one of the leading sustainability consulting firms. Employees leave their Voltaic bags outside during the workday to charge up their batteries.

Charges: Varieties of phones, iPods and Blackberries.

Location: Close to the North Pole as part of the Polar Race 2007
Charges: Creative MP3 and camera. “I thought you may like to know that it performed brilliantly. Carrying or strapping the bag to my sledge during the day enabled me to charge my MP3 player and camera battery overnight in the warmth of my sleeping bag…having music to relieve the boredom made all the difference.“

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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