As if style were not enough - or is it the modern tendency to make everything doubly and triply useful in many different ways? Anyhow, this new creation by the Diffus Design team is more than just a cool quilt-patterned messenger bag. The pattern is laid out in so many small solar panels. Full story

One of the exhibits at the next week’s PFD International 2010 in Chiba, Japan, furnished by AUO will be a new 14-inch touch keyboard notebook that can draw power from the sunlight or other light sources. Full story

When it comes to cleaning out teeth, toothbrushes and toothpaste seem to be indispensable fixtures that will withstand the ravages of time and science and march on with us into the future. But on the other hand… they may not. Full story

A new Sharp SH6230C is there (will be later this month on the Chinese market, to be exact) to make you perfectly sure that, given a sunny day, your cell phone will run on full power incessantly. Sharp’s first solar-powered gadget to be sold in another country features Sharp’s proprietary solar cell module. There is an impressive 2.9″ LCD display with a 5-megapixel autofocus camera ... Full story

Sultry summers require strings of new and various methods of cooling the atmosphere down, and there’s an ingenious one coming – to use what is in abundance around, namely the sunlight! Full story