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The world’s smallest solar panel power bank is slightly larger than a credit card
Each hour, roughly 430 quintillion Joules of energy from the sun reach earth. Each HOUR. If humanity had the apparatus to capture and store just one day’s worth of that energy, it would practically offset the entire planet’s energy requirements for an entire year. The sad truth is that humanity just uses 0.01% of the solar energy we receive, and that’s something that can change only if solar panels became more affordable, commonplace, and convenient. Say hello to the Sunslice Photon, a product that ticks all those three boxes.
The Photon is, as its name suggests, highly compact. When folded down, the entire device is roughly the size of your wallet, and can slide easily into backpacks, purses, or even pockets. Open it out, however, and its 5 solar panels let you channel the energy of the sun into your devices. The Photon comes with 5 durable, weatherproof panels that capture solar energy no matter what the weather. Engineered to capture twice as much solar energy as conventional solar chargers of similar size, the solar panels found on the Photon come with high efficiency, highly optimized back-contact monocrystalline solar cells that help grab more energy, efficiently converting the harnessed light into electricity, and do it in a format that’s robust enough to last for years. All the energy that gets captured gets stored in the Photon’s 4000mAh power bank. The power bank comes with fast-charging and a multi-port 3-in-1 cable that lets you plug in any device, be it a smartphone, a pair of earbuds, or any other accessory you may have on you. Designed to be used when you don’t have a power outlet or socket in sight (aka the outdoors), the Photon even comes with a handy flashlight built right into the power-bank. Everything (including the cable) comes bundled into a nice fold-down case with a vegan leather exterior and secured shut using a magnetic enclosure.
If you’re looking for some more oomph than a 5-panel portable charger, the guys behind the Photon even developed the Zenith backpack, with nearly 3 times as many panels in terms of area covered. The Zenith Backpack is your regular go-to laptop bag, except its outer body comes fitted with Sunslice’s proprietary solar panels, covering the entire outer surface. The 8W solar panels can connect to any power bank of your choice on the inside (although there is an option of getting a 20,000mAh power bank with the backpack as an add-on accessory). Designed to be entirely waterproof and weatherproof, the Zenith backpack, just like the Photon, can be used practically anywhere, and can even be carried on flights as personal in-cabin luggage.
The Photon and Zenith are extremely handy when you don’t have a reliable power source around. Whether you’re at home during a power-cut, outdoors with no access to electricity, in a foreign land with no power-adapter to plug your charger into the socket, or if there simply isn’t a power outlet nearby, they let you tap into the biggest source of energy known to humankind. The solar-panels are weather and accident-proof, and both products come with a 2-year warranty to sweeten the deal. Plus, you know what the best part is about using solar panels to charge your phone? Never having to pay for electricity!
Designers: Henri Gernaey & Geoffroy Ghion
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Sunslice – The Smallest & Most Powerfund Solar Power Bank
Powered by Sunpower® technology, the Photon by Sunslice is a next-generation solar charger that includes more power and more storage, in the most portable format that exists. Its elegant eco-friendly faux-leather design makes it light, robust, shockproof, and water-resistant.
Tested in laboratory – On average 3 times faster in the sun than similar solar chargers, compatible with all devices, making it a perfect solar charger & power bank for iPhone, Android phones, GoPro, GPS, or any other electronic device.
The smallest solar charger ever created which unfolds into a large solar panel.
Sunpower® Technology
Over 3 years of research and development, they have created the smallest solar charger & solar power bank in the world. Their technology can store twice as much energy (up to 2 phone charges) more than their competitors, for the same volume and weight.
The team achieved this technological breakthrough by developing a strategic design and by miniaturizing and optimizing the control electronics for more storage, higher performance, and reduced power losses.
Photon Features & Benefits
Comes with a built-in flashlight.
As simple as plug & play.
The universal USB port allows the Photon to charge pretty much anything that can be charged with a USB port. The 3-in-1 cable already gives wide compatibility, but you can also use your own cable to charge other devices.
Charge your phone in about 3 hours thanks to the integrated fast charge 2.4 Amp battery technology.
Weather-resistant and robust.
The best size-to-power ratio. With the rated power output among the best solar technologies on the market of its solar panels of 4 Watts, it exceeds the power output of much bigger solar chargers.
Designed to be small, portable and practical, the Photon is great for camping, cycling, hiking, or any urban activities to charge your phone and many other devices on the go.
Made from vegan leather. The Photon follows your tastes and integrates the fashion codes to fit your lifestyle and your outfit.
The Zenith Solar Backpack
The Zenith is a great solar backpack, and it integrates the best features that make a smart backpack: anti-theft backpack, a powerful solar panel, a laptop compartment, and a modernist backpack design.
The Sunslice Zenith is a lightweight, practical and stunning solar backpack designed to give you combined functionalities of a good daily-use modernist backpack and a powerful solar charger. It is perfect for daily use, going to work, on your bike, city trips, and outdoor escapades into the wild, making it one of the best backpacks for travel.
The bag’s frontal pocket contains the solar panel’s USB output, which charges a power bank that can be stored in a dedicated pocket. This power bank charges automatically when the Zenith is exposed to the sun, allowing you to use the stored solar power when you need it. The external USB port also provides a convenient power source outside the bag when you’re on the go.
The Zenith solar backpack is made with water-resistant fabric, and the solar panel is completely waterproof, so rain is nothing to worry about.
The flexible CIGS cells of the Zenith, developed in California, offer some of the best performance available on the market for flexible solar panels with 15% efficiency. They provide high power and robustness while remaining lightweight and integrating perfectly with the fabric.
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Rocket Lab plans to send payloads to the Moon
Rocket Lab has been increasing the altitude of its missions in recent months, but now it wants to venture much, much farther. The private spaceflight firm now intends to help launch missions to higher Earth orbits, lunar orbit and even Lagrange poin...
This desktop lightbox makes your lighting setup as advanced as your camera
Looking quite like a miniaturized stage-setup from Coachella, the Photon was designed to give your photography the next big hardware upgrade. With an incredible camera now being able to fit right in your pocket, it only made sense to make expert studio lighting accessible to everyone too. The Photon isn’t your regular light box. It’s a modular system of more than 2700 LEDs arranged within 75 LED blocks. You can trigger any arrangement of LED blocks at any time, lighting up your subjects/products in ways that you never imagined… and you don’t need to manually move lights to change your lighting setup. You can just press a few buttons on your smartphone to switch off one LED block at one location, and trigger another one at a different location to dynamically change your light-arrangement.
Styled like most light-boxes, Photon is a 5-sided cube that you can photograph products in. A canvas/backdrop hangs from the panel at the back to the base, giving you a clean background for your products – but what’s really exciting is the Photon’s light-setup. The Photon’s remaining panels are, in fact, entirely made up of LEDs from top to bottom covered with a frosted diffuser-surface. These LEDs, connected to a centrally-controlled source, can be triggered to give you drop-down and side-lighting. Depending on your product, its shape, size, orientation, and the quality of its surfaces, you can trigger different combination of light blocks, creating dynamic or uniformed lighting that mimics the versatility of having an entire light setup with 5-6 lamps. You can save lighting presets or access light presets from Photon’s library, and even animate the light blocks to really make product photography interesting!
Things get really interesting is when you begin thinking out of the box… literally! Photon’s modular lighting panels don’t need to always be assembled in a box. They can work independently, or in different shapes, or can even expand to fit larger products, giving you the expertise of having professional-grade lighting equipment with the absolute versatility that the Photon prides itself in. The Photon works right out of the box, and doesn’t need any expertise or professional guidance. An easy-to-use interface allows you to toggle light-blocks, setting up a lighting profile that is unique to your sense of composition, your product, and that camera in your hand… be it a humble-but-powerful smartphone camera, or an expensive DSLR. The camera has evolved a lot in the past 10 years – the Photon Light Module System brings the same kind of evolution to the rest of your photography setup too!
Designer: Iaroslav Neliubov
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Photon Light Module System
An advanced mini photo studio with a fully controlled light system for detailed object shooting!
The advanced Modular Studio allows instant Light Scenes change, controllable via Smartphone or PC. Modular easy-to-install system enables you to shoot different size objects, miniature or massive.
Below: Features
– Each module consists of 25 active light blocks 4×4 inches
– Each block has 36 LED elements
– Total 2700 LED lights
– Module size: 20×20 inches
– Each module has its Wi-Fi transmitter
Advantages
Simple installation – Does not require any professional skills
Price – Much cheaper than studio equipment
Placing, space savings – 1/4 sq.m in contrast to 3 sq.m
Speed – Instant change of lighting
Visibility – When lighting is constant on the object, you instantly see the result of lighting scene
Skills – At home, in the office or shop settings you can easily produce quality content without any dedicated photography skills
Below: How It Works
1. Fully controlled Lighting System with instant change of Light Scenes. They do not relocate the light source, but they shift the light. The object is illuminated from many different angles using the optimally arranged LEDs in each module. It’s all about the control over the light!
2. Auto Mode. Shoot & Upload HQ visuals just in seconds. We created a sophisticated library of various light scenes. Enjoy results right away with 10-15 ready-to-use light scenes.
3. Saving Light Scenes. Set up your own scenes and save them for later use or just download free pre-sets. Take control of every flare!
4. Module System. Choose various ways how to install modules: from 1 up to 20 blocks. Don’t need a cube? Build a wall with no sides! Want to have more light from the top? No problem, just set it!
5. Ready-to-use solution. Straight out of the box. Get the set and immediately shoot. Modify your module system with add-ons to achieve spectacular output.
6. Shoot like a PRO. Pre-sets provide impressive results without any dedicated photography skills. See how the object will look on a screen & rapidly adjust the light scene to get the most out of it. Put a Pro to work for You!
Below: Module System
Modules configuration is changed according to shooting object size, backgrounds and screens necessity. The system also allows connecting more than 3 modules:
2 Modules
3 Modules
The module system was invented and configured to shoot objects and compositions of virtually any size.
Software
Being assembled and connected to power supply, modules run test mode (turn all on) to check serviceability and welcome command (smile) to add a photo. Each module then connects to Wi-Fi, which is indicated in the App. After that you can easily manage modules from any device that’s in the same net. Modules control is managed through display of light scenes on the device screen, (Smartphone) by setting up your scenes or downloading pre-sets.
The Photon LMS App changes light scene instantly from any device: tablet, smartphone or laptop. Lightweight and easy to use app for those who appreciate Time, Speed & Quality. The App comes with a generous introductory package of FREE pre-sets. It is simple and straightforward to use, designed to pursue top efficiency. Everything is streamlined and simplified for your convenience!
Why The Photon
Price: Costs less than a set of flashes. Literally. The whole studio will cost you way less than a set of ordinary flashes and accessories.
Size: One easy-to-use photo studio instead of loads of equipment; when shooting small objects, the standard equipment is too large and bulky one. Moreover, the process also requires constant control and appropriate light settings adjustments.
Skills: You don’t need to have a wide knowledge of lighting settings or any photography skills to obtain a perfect result.
Time: Photon LMS is a straight out of the box, ready to use solution for e-commerce entrepreneurs to create in-house product photos!
Portability: Strong & Light materials to handle! To maintain the portable concept, we will use strong and light materials to make it easy to carry neatly.
Below: Taken With The Photon
Below: Tech Specs
New generation of Light Box!
Photon prototype basic electronics r.003 specification:
– LED Manufacturer – CREE;
– LED Package (mm) – 2835;
– LED Colour temperature – 5600K;
– LED CRI > 80%;
– Light pulsations level < 5%, frequency – 400-800 kHz;
– Illuminance on the bottom of Photon box – 25000 lux;
– 1 Module input DC voltage – 24 V;
– 1 Module maximum input current – 3.4 A;
– Maximum Power Consumption (All cells at maximum brightness)
– 100 W per module & 300 W per basic kit (3 modules);
– One cell power consumption – 3-3.3 W
The MONSTER POWER lighting to draw any light scene you may need to cover objects. Energy-efficient LEDs built-in in every module.
The Story Of Creating
We have come a long way since we first came up with the idea of creating fully controlled light system one year ago. We believed that the advanced modular studio can change the way we take photos at home. With this in mind our team spent countless nights designing, prototyping, testing, programming, and pitching our ideas to thousands of people, receiving feedback on Photon LMS. Six month in, our product has been verified and is ready for manufacturing.
In August 2018 we went public with that achievement and won Concepter Acceleration program as well as CES2019 booth supported by UVCA. It was a huge success!
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Rocket Lab’s Photon platform makes it easier to launch satellites
Rocket Lab isn't content with just carrying satellites into orbit... it wants to power the satellites, too. The company has unveiled a satellite platform, Photon, that handles much of the hard work. It looks simple, but it includes avionics, attitu...
Twisted light could make wireless data faster than fiber
As fast as fiber optic lines have become, they're still hamstrung by one key limitation: you still need to transmit that data over wires, which limits where you can transmit and the affordability of the fastest connections. Scientists may have a way...
Light-based neural network could lead to super-fast AI
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A lab-made black hole supports longstanding Hawking theory
In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward a hypothesis suggesting radiation can escape the light-sucking grip of a black hole. This week, and over forty years later, newly published research claims to have observed "Hawking radiation" (as it is known) in...
DARPA wants help hunting for individual photons
America's mad science division wants the ability to see the building blocks of light, but needs the scientific community's help to do so. The agency is launching one of its famous open calls for knowledge, this time under the auspices of the Fundamen...
DARPA wants help hunting for individual photons
America's mad science division wants the ability to see the building blocks of light, but needs the scientific community's help to do so. The agency is launching one of its famous open calls for knowledge, this time under the auspices of the Fundamen...