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New Solar Concept Tent
    #15966153 - 03/19/12 04:29 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10271672-54.html

Technology junkies rejoice!
Advances in solar technology bring us a prototype of the ultimate tech junky / festival tent.

A solar tent that charges your phone, laptop, etc.
Has it's own illumination, heated floors, WIFI?? and "glow technology" that lets you send a text to your tent and it lights up.



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Telecom giant Orange unveiled a concept solar tent in conjunction with the opening of this year's Glastonbury music festival in the U.K.

Inspired by the new flexible photovoltaics in development, the tent--if produced for consumers--would be covered in a semi-photovoltaic fabric woven with both coated solar threads and conventional threads to form a solar shell that could be adjusted to face optimum sun throughout the day.

The solar energy would then be channeled into four main power uses: heating, lighting, communications, and recharging.

The goal of Kaleidoscope, the design firm working in conjunction with Orange, was to create a tent that would help attendees of Glastonbury, the U.K.'s famous open-field music festival, which is sponsored in part by Orange, to keep their bearings and to keep in touch with friends while on site.

Most interesting is the idea of a wireless charging pouch. Instead of plugging in, people would drop their phone or other portable device into a pouch inside the tent. A coil in the pouch would carry an electric current that generates a magnetic field to produce a charge, which would then serve to power the device's battery.

In addition, some of the captured solar energy would be channeled toward radiant floor heating--something that would be much appreciated by anyone sleeping on the commonly damp British ground.

And how many times have you been to a field festival only to spend an eternity trying to find your way back to your camp? The development team for the tent noticed that this wandering was a common problem at Glastonbury each year.

For that reason, the tent would be equipped with "Glo-cation" technology that would allow users to find their tents by sending an SMS message or using an automatic RFID tag similar to the ones used in London's Underground Oyster subway cards. The tent would then glow in response.

The tent would also serve to broadcast a Wi-Fi signal, though it's unclear whether it would have a Wi-Fi booster for a central area hub or act as an independent Wi-Fi router.

While this week England happens to be pretty bright and sunny, I'm not so sure a solar tent is the way to go in the land of perpetual, mild drizzling. But I could certainly see this being a favorite at Burning Man.





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Re: New Solar Concept Tent [Re: Shroomism]
    #15966165 - 03/19/12 04:44 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

That looks neat. The next step is to have solar powered clothing made from the same cloth.


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Re: New Solar Concept Tent [Re: Aser]
    #15970367 - 03/20/12 02:24 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: New Solar Concept Tent [Re: Shroomism]
    #15985702 - 03/23/12 12:34 PM (11 years, 10 months ago)

why?


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Re: New Solar Concept Tent [Re: demiu5]
    #15986084 - 03/23/12 02:11 PM (11 years, 10 months ago)

why not?

One can make the argument, camping is to get away from technology as much as you want.
But the fact is a lot of modern camping equipment is FROM advances in technology.
And when is it not handy to be able to charge your mp3 player/GPS/phone/whatever out in the middle of nowhere?
Nothing wrong with harnessing power from the sun imo


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Re: New Solar Concept Tent [Re: Shroomism]
    #16038398 - 04/03/12 01:41 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

The only issue with this is, you can carry an array of small solar panels that weighs a few pounds, for 300 dollars, and keep an expeditions gear charged. I'd be surprised if this tent weighs less than 30 pounds, and could keep more than 2 people's devices charged. Why have wifi anything in a tent? I either teather off of my phone or bring along my -11db antenna and external cell modem, and will soon have a GPS device that can send emails for when I'm out of cell range, which is most of the time... My sleeping entire sleep system weighs 2 pounds in summer and 4 in winter, and you can hang the solar panels on your pack during the day if your moving. I also already need another tent that's going to cost 500 bucks for winter, I'd hate to think about what this would set someone back.


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