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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / May 2008Apple files patent for "solar cells on portable devices"
In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple reveals possible plans to integrate solar cells into devices such as iPods and MacBooks. This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? > In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells > on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple > reveals possible plans to integrate solar cells into devices such as > iPods and MacBooks. > > This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? It won't, unless a new type of heretofore unknown solar cell has been developed. I use a solar charger for my current phone than utilizes two cells each roughly the size of an iPhone. Together they output about 200mw of current in full sunlight, which would take 7-8 hours (again, in full sunlight) to charge my phone from dead. The charger has it's own rechargeable battery which stores the output of the cells to make the charger usable. (I bought it for use when camping, but use it more often in the car when using my phone's MP3 function through my car radio- the isolated charger avoids the car electrical noise picked up by my FM modulator when my DC charge cord is used.) Solar cells might Oh wow! Like this is something new? My Casio watch is solar powered and gets the time off the atomic clock radio station WWV in Ft. Worth, Colorado. China already has a solar powered phone(s). See: http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/721/ Hell. I'll just hire some snacky Asian model to follow me around with one of these: http://www.dvhardware.net/article27466.html and keep her tethered to my phone. B~ "B. Peg" <bent_peg69@worldnet.att.net> wrote in news:f7L_j.2163$jI5.1679 @flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com: > I'll just hire some snacky Asian model to follow me around Hell, if you got one of those 3 you don't need the bra or the phone! I'd never leave the house! On 5/26/08 10:21 PM, in article f7L_j.2163$jI5.1679@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com, > Oh wow! Like this is something new? > My Casio watch is solar powered and gets the time off the atomic clock radio > station WWV in Ft. Worth, Colorado. "Collins" as in "Ft. Collins, CO. Not Texas... At 26 May 2008 20:24:32 -0600 Todd Allcock wrote: > Solar cells might Ooops... hit "send immediate" by accident! I meant to peck "solar cells might help marginally if you lay the phone in full sunlight when not in use, but it's no replacement for for a 'real' charger." 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:109ddbc5-0972-47ac-a98a- e3431bfb14e1@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: > This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? "Iphone Owners Suffer From Terrible Sunburns and Skin Cancer!"..GIF at 11. Solar cells are STUPID on an iAnything. How are you gonna see what you're doing standing in the hot, bright sun? Solar cells don't work under flourescent light hardly at all. Devices with backlit displays look best in the DARK..... That's gotta be Stevie's stupidest idea yet! Take the pod out into the sunshine where the photons are. Try reading the display or doing anything that requires you to SEE what it says. I better keep an eye on my stock price before Stupid causes a drop in my profits. >4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:109ddbc5-0972-47ac-a98a- >e3431bfb14e1@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >That's gotta be Stevie's stupidest idea yet! Totallu wrong; the idea is to sandwich the solar cells behind LCD screens, so they take up zero net device real estate. http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/26/solar-lcd-powered-ipods-iphones-and-laptops/ >Take the pod out into the sunshine where the photons are. Try reading the >display or doing anything that requires you to SEE what it says. > >I better keep an eye on my stock price before Stupid causes a drop in my >profits. > Totallu wrong; the idea is to sandwich the solar cells behind LCD > screens, so they take up zero net device real estate. > > http://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/26/solar-lcd-powered-ipods-iphones-and > -laptops/ Ok, bright boy, you take your little iphone out into the sun and leave the display cooking in the hot sun and see what happens. Add the heat of a solar panel converting 65% of the sunlight into pure heat, adding to the overheating problem and watch what happens. I'll give you a hint....the display will turn black as the liquid crystals the display runs on melt into a liquid. They'll recrystalize when it cools but to stress the display in this manner WILL, not might, make it FAIL! Absolutely the WORST thing you can do to a liquid crystal display, Applecrap or not, is to leave it cooking in the hot sun!.....not to mention the effects on the electronics and a lithium-ion battery pack you can't change yourself under it. I think Stevie is trying to cook iPhones so he can sell more. This is a really stupid idea! >> Totallu wrong; the idea is to sandwich the solar cells behind LCD >> screens, so they take up zero net device real estate. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >solar panel converting 65% of the sunlight into pure heat, adding to the >overheating problem and watch what happens. Try and talk trash for an item that doesnt exist yet why dont you. On 5/27/08 9:17 AM, in article 7v5o34tirvfs27knqh98l8ib3b2s3m83t7@4ax.com, >>> Totallu wrong; the idea is to sandwich the solar cells behind LCD >>> screens, so they take up zero net device real estate. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> > Try and talk trash for an item that doesnt exist yet why dont you. Larry hasn't made it out of Sophomore Year. Give him a break! On 5/26/08 10:21 PM, in article Xns9AAAEDAF081B2noonehomecom@208.49.80.253, > 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:109ddbc5-0972-47ac-a98a- > e3431bfb14e1@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I better keep an eye on my stock price before Stupid causes a drop in my > profits. Right. Sure. You bet. BAWHAWHAWHAW!!!! Wow. There are battery problems with the iPhone ? Who would have that there was. :) > In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells > on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple > reveals possible plans to integrate solar cells into devices such as > iPods and MacBooks. > > This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? Should have said "Thought there was" ; ) > Wow. There are battery problems with the iPhone ? Who would have that > there was. :) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >> This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? > In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells > on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple > reveals possible plans to integrate solar cells into devices such as > iPods and MacBooks. > > This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? Damn, you mean like on any number of handheld calculators of the 1980s? Who'd a thunk it? Ought to be a good laugh for the USPTO. >> In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells >> on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Who'd a thunk it? Ought to be a good laugh for the USPTO. There are six separate patents on the use of a laser pointer for playing with a cat. Laugh if you like, I'm putting the finishing touches on my patents for pants, beef and television.  SignatureBlack candidate endorsed by former Exalted Cyclops and Grand Kleagle of the KKK! Film not at 11 or any other time... you're not supposed to know this. > In a patent application dated April 24, 2008 and titled "Solar cells > on portable devices" attributed to a number of Apple employees, Apple > reveals possible plans to integrate solar cells into devices such as > iPods and MacBooks. > > This might lick the iPhone battery problem, what do you think? I had a Sony Walkman cassette player that had solar cells on one side. It worked very well. You can see a photo of it at "http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/10/solar_walkman_w.html" However I'm sure that Apple invented solar cells on portable devices, even though Sony sold a product with solar cells 21 years earlier. |
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