Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woman in climbing gear looking at bright sun shining over mountain range The best solar chargers are great for keeping your phone, ...

A solar-powered laptop? Uh-huh! Tipped at MWC 2025, this prototype PC has panels on its lid to convert sunshine or ambient light into battery life. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years ...

Voltaic Systems has been making backpacks and laptop cases with built-in solar chargers since 2004. But so far most of the company’s backpacks have only generated enough electricity to charge small ...

Lenovo has sparked excitement with a solar-powered laptop concept, hinting at a future where your power source is the sun. Dubbed the Yoga Solar PC, the company unveiled this sustainable ...

Aligned with our interest in emergency kits, we’ve been looking into what items should go inside of them, according to agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Among first aid kits and ...

Here’s the first reality shock when solar-charging gadgets and laptops: you shouldn’t just plug them directly into the solar panels. This would result in too spiky a voltage due to clouds rolling ...

The dream of going wireless with a laptop or iPad becomes pretty meaningless when reality hits and you’re left with a battery drained to nothing. But Voltaic’s new solar backpack brings things back ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...