SOLo Lounge Table Powers Your Gadgets The Green Way April 22, 2008

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I have to admit that this stylish table from Intelligent forms (iF) looks better than most tech-oriented tables and, since it uses the power of the sun to recharge all your gadgets, it certainly gets the thumbs up on the green front.

The SOLo Lounge Table sports solar cells sandwiched into the glass top to gather up those free sun rays and convert them into 17 kilowatts of energy (per year) to charge your gadget and laptop batteries via three in-built USB ports.

It also features an LCD display and Bluetooth technology so that you can view, receive and wirelessly transmit data to any other Bluetooth-equipped devices like laptops and phones, as well as surf the net. The company says:

"The SOLo LoungeTable by iF can harness over 17 kilowatts of solar energy every year in a typical outdoor setting. This amount of power provides the equivalent of 6,300 mobile phone charges, 8,400 digital camera charges, or 168 laptop computer charges annually — all without draining traditional, overextended sources of energy."

And, after your hard day of environmentally friendly work, power gathered by the table can be used to run the SOLo’s internal LED lamps to give it that warm, romantic glow at night. There’s no price on this but you can express your ‘interest’ – a.k.a. ‘not cheap’ - over at iF’s site. –Martin Lynch

[Bornrich]

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