A basic necessity for a road trip, or any kind of traveling, is a battery pack for your smartphone. We live in the kind of world where being disconnected is as good as being dead, and HeLi-On brings users a brand new way to keep your battery pack charged for all your needs through solar power.
Solar Power Goes Portable with HeLi-On
The project, based out of Copenhagen, integrates a solar panel printed from a traditional printer onto a smartphone battery pack. This makes it accessible for anyone to charge their phone. If your battery pack dies in the middle of the day, all users need to do is splay it out under the sun. Charging it for 2-3 hours will give users 2-3 hours of charging, guaranteed.
HeLi-On Charges Your Phone While Charging Itself
What’s more, users can charge the pack’s solar power reserve while still using its internal charge. HeLi-On is not only the lightest solar charger, weighing 105 grams, but it is also the smallest. The device is 11.3″ long, 3.6″ wide and 2.8″ thick.
Two Danish Startups Combine to Bring the Best Solar Charger Yet
The device’s solar panel is powered by InfinityPV. Contrary to what some would think, the panel is printed from a regular printer, and it is less than 2 micrometers thick. The solar panel is water and shatter protected with a protective foil on both sides, so users can feel comfortable charging their solar panel on any cool or warm and dry surfaces.
The solar panel in the device is shatterproof and is rolled right into the battery pack. This makes for a non-bulky, lightweight device. Its power weight is only 3 watts with a mAh. The campaign also features a postcard solar panel, which can be used to power smaller electronic devices.
Solar Power Will Be Everywhere Soon Enough
The HeLi-On is a small show of how widespread solar charging will become. It is now not only in our cities and towns, but it will also be at the tips of our fingers soon enough.
Apple Portable Chargers and Co. Should Measure Up
This kind of technology has a lot of potential and really great applications. It will kickstart new, greener and cleaner trends. All of these are necessary for society to move forward in favor of reducing every kind of pollution affecting our planet. This makes it way more practical than other devices on the market. Even Apple portable chargers don’t measure up to this kind of genius.
