Traveling can sometimes make it difficult to keep gadgets charged up, especially when hiking or spending time in remote areas. This backpack from Voltaic Systems has three durable, waterproof solar panels across the back of it which generate up to 4 watts of power, which is plenty to charge up your things.

Inside the backpack there are channels that run throughout the pack and shoulder straps to run wires through which can power and charge various items. A 2,200mAh Li-Ion battery and eleven adapters also come with the Voltaic Backpack to hook up to a wide variety of gadgets and run them temporarily with no power source. The battery has three different voltage settings available to store the solar power.

When riding in the car or indoors, the solar backpack also contains adapters to charge your gadgets and it’s battery through a standard AC outlet, a DC car charger or through a USB port. There is also a handy light on the logo of the pack to indicate when you are picking up power, solar or otherwise.

There are a few different styles of backpacks with four different colors available for the solar panels, and also a laptop-bag style. Although, the manufacturer states that this device in not intended to charge laptops, just smaller gadget devices. This was surprising to see on their website, since most of the reason we would envision using something like this would be to charge up a laptop. This still has numerous very useful applications, as I could definitely see using it to keep my mobile phone and GPS gadgets charged while on extending outdoor trips for example, but not charging laptops is a little disappointing.

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