Practical accessory: solar charger for your mobile phone

Here’s a great gadget for the environmentally aware or the practical-minded (or both): a solar charger for your cell phone. It also plugs into your everyday wall socket and acts as an emergency charger for your phone. Great for those times when you forgot to charge your phone. More details in the full article.

Ever ran out of the house and forgot to charge your phone? Who hasn’t? Here’s the perfect gadget to make sure you have some extra juice for your phone so you’re not left high and dry: a solar charger for your mobile phone.

It’s not the cutest cell phone accessory around, but you have to admit, you’d be hard pressed to find a cell phone accessory that’s as useful and practical. Or environmentally friendly for that matter.

The accessory-gadget can also be plugged into your everyday wall socket to store up energy which you can later use to charge up your phone. Extremely useful when the sun is playing peek-a-boo.

The solar charger is manufactured by Strap-Ya and will be released in Japan this month for JPY 1,900 (US$ 18). A similar device was released by Solar-fine before but this one looks a bit more compact and portable.

Via Rakuten