Green or not these are pretty damn cool er, hot. The English company IDC announced in a recent press release that they will be mass-producing an inflatable solar panel and make it available for ...

Whether you’re camping, waiting out a power outage, or fixing your car on the side of the road at night, having a ready supply of light is handy indeed. Maybe the coolest lamp out there is the ...

New York City-based Mpowerd introduced the Luci solar-powered inflatable lantern earlier this month. The lantern folds like an accordion and shines with the force of 10 LED bulbs. Its integrated solar ...

No one wants to mess around with clunky gear on a camping trip, especially if you're carrying everything on your back. Mpowerd took on the challenge of shrinking down the standard too-heavy camping ...

Trying to illuminate your campsite at night without wearing a dorky flashlight-headband and without blinding (and irritating) your neighbors with what, in the blackness of a peaceful campground, seems ...

Although it can be considered as a basic human need alongside food, water and shelter, 1.6 billion people all over the world have no access to stable and safe source of light. It's a situation that ...

The clever folks over at Ford patent a lot of ideas. Some are cool and potentially revolutionary; others are just downright weird. But a new Ford patent application for inflatable solar panels that ...

Disaster relief efforts traditionally focus on supplying the basics -- food, water and shelter -- to victims. Columbia University graduate students Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta want light added to ...

The dream of a solar-self-charging electric vehicle lives on. A Ford patent application was published this week for a roof-mounted device that, with a flip of a switch, cocoons the entire parked ...