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May 8, 2011

Charge Your Gadgets With Solar Panels and Moving Furniture

Wander through MIT's Killian Court and you'll spot something distinctly modern nestled amongst its classical buildings -- a set of solar-powered lounge chairs called SOFT Rockers. These curved, solar-panel-covered seats rotate on an axis to keep them facing the sun, generating additional energy from the rocking motion created when people climb inside. All that harvested electricity can be used to recharge gadgets plugged into the three USB ports and to illuminate a light strip on the inside of the loop.
 
 

16 comments:

Lt Nite said...

Wow oh wow is that cool, and I like the fact that it shifts to follow the suns path. Innovated stuff, good post.

CPH said...

Would hate to get burned alive by this. haha

Teen Book Reviewer said...

This reminds me of Wall-E. I hope we never get here.

123 said...

that's amazing :D

although they seem expensive

Dave Benzene said...

I want one of these in my garden

CandleintheDark said...

Very very cool idea

PaulBlark said...

I wanna build one so bad now! That is awesome

Thatguyheis said...

clever idea

Genj0 said...

Seems pretty confort!

ExoticBlogger said...

looks cool!

BluRayBoy said...

That looks awesome!

Daniel Smotherman said...

That's so awesome

Benji Radman said...

Awesome!

Lucifer said...

cool stuff !

Shona said...

WHAAT! DO WANT!

Anonymous said...

Solar panels are awesome! Ive always wanted to put a bunch of them on the roof.