A friend sent me a link to the Regen Living website. I have to say I was very impressed. It's a sexy looking product and great idea. They have a solar charger with a battery to store the power. This is the base unit. Then they offer some accessories that can use that power...like an iPod dock to charge your iPhone or iPod as well as a Sound Dock to play music off your iPod. They also have an LED side lamp. I assume they will be coming out with more options to plug things in to the panel.
Coming soon will be a solar powered speaker system where you can dock your iPod and play music. It is about 3 feet tall so I'm thinking you'll be able to really crank it up! This will work on regular power (120v) as well or "hybrid" mode as they put it. The draw back it it's not cheap.
Regen Living definitely has the cool factor in their corner here and I applaud the effort. I struggle with the cost though and justifying a purchase solely to charge my iPhone. It's about $250 for the charger and iPod dock. It probably cost me a penny to charge my phone off the wall and nothing really if I have it plugged in to my computer while I'm working. Am I missing something here?
Regardless they are heading on the right direction and I hope they are successful.
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