Wireless Outdoor Solar Speaker rocks out on beaches, picnics

It's not like we had anything personal against the 80s style boomboxes that lasted a good half hour or so on eight D-cell batteries, but tagging one along to a day at the beach wound up getting pretty costly in a hurry. Joining the hordes of other eco-friendly and multi-faceted camping / outdoor gear is the Wireless Outdoor Solar Speaker, which is quite likely to be overlooked as a simple thermos at first glance. Atop the canister sits a solar panel that soaks up energy and uses it to pump out tunes through its (understandably weak) five-watt speaker. Additionally, a complimentary wireless (albeit battery-powered) transceiver allows any music source with a 3.5-millimeter output to be beam music to the solar speaker from "up to 150 feet away." Reportedly, the sun-lovin' device will run UK-based chaps £99.95 ($199), but that's assuming you can actually catch it in stock.

[Via PopGadget]

[thecount @ Apr 30th 2007 8:41AM]

All we need now in the UK is some sun

[Coos @ Apr 30th 2007 9:36AM]

We've just had the most sunny april ever recorded in Belgium and those outdoor speakers are definitely worth considering.

http://blogalong.eu

[NHAnimator @ Apr 30th 2007 9:55AM]

Sounds like I have something new to haul around in my five-watt solar car.

[tekdroid @ May 1st 2007 7:00AM]

200 bucks buys a lot of Eneloops and a stereo with integrated speaker.
http://www.eneloop.info