Hands-on with the solar powered Iqua Sun

Not a lot to say here -- which in the case of the Iqua Sun is a good thing. The term "solar powered headset" evokes images of headborne monstrosities no sane individual would allow to ride on their noggins, but the Sun is a totally reasonable looking and reasonably sized Bluetooth headset that just happens to be able to charge off the sun's rays. Yeah, it takes longer to juice it that way than it does via the mains, but hey, it's free and it's everywhere. Good stuff!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 5:22PM]

This is very cool. Where do I get one in Canadamerica?

It would be nice if they started incorporating solar cells into all portable electronics. Even a trickle of juice would be a life saver if you were stranded somewhere with a dead cellphone...

or even for more mundane things like trickle charging a notebook in a sunny room.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 6:00PM]

I'm no trademark lawyer, but can you really call a product SUN? I think that one's already been trademarked in the computer/electronics market.
http://www.sun.com/suntrademarks/index.jsp

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2008 9:09PM]

There's at about 45 live trademarks on the name sun - most of them not owned by our favorite microsystems. Trademarks are more narrowly defined than "computer/electronics" - and calling a product 'sun' doesn't seem to infringe on the might microsystems.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=um5kei.2.1&p_search=searchstr&BackReference=&p_L=100&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=sun&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24FM&expr=PARA1+and+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=live&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24LD&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query