Thanko's solar-powered DAP urges you outdoors

So we've seen a few solar-powered gizmos (that we wouldn't touch with a ten twenty foot pole), but Thanko's own sun-lovin' DAP actually doesn't look half bad. The Solar Digital Audio Player, from the front, looks like any other ho hum unit, with a 1.8-inch 220 x 176 resolution display, 4GB of internal storage space and a miniSD expansion slot. Flip 'er over, and you'll find a thoughtful kickstand that just so happens to have a solar panel slapped right on, enabling the brilliant, outdoor sunshine to give it a few more minutes of life. There's no official word on a price or release date, but we wouldn't bank on it ever coming Stateside, anyway.

Update: Seems this is just a rebadge. So much for thinking ahead, huh?

[Nihility @ May 31st 2008 9:26AM]

Cute idea. How about this one: an all purpose solar charger that can hook into anything you own; laptop, phone, audio player, dancing musical robot etc...
Something built of thin solar panels that folds up neatly.

[OneLove @ May 31st 2008 3:55PM]

The internets is fun!
http://www.solio.com/

[Christy McGrory @ May 31st 2008 11:04AM]

That's quite ironic actually, encouraging you to take an ugly mp3 player outside... doesn't really make sense if you think about it.

[Christy McGrory @ May 31st 2008 11:04AM]

And yes, I do know it has solar panels.

[Hackius @ May 31st 2008 11:10AM]

It looks like a slide phone

[gzeusmants @ May 31st 2008 1:34PM]

The first (terrible) PMP I bought came with earbuds exactly like those, and I'd say they're with about $40.

[judysolar @ Jul 8th 2008 12:15PM]

This idea is similar to Solar-mobile phone in China last year. One solar panel is incorporated on the back of mobile phone. But it turned out that it was only a concept business, lacking practical function, because the solar power was not powerful enough to support mobile phone at all.---judysolar.spaces.live.com