Here’s a neat and eco-friendly idea. A transport service in Kenya is using wearable flexible solar panel vests to keep its employees’ mobile phones charged. Bicycle riders, the popular “boda-boda” riders, wear these vests to charge the storage battery, which in turn could be used for providing electricity to a mobile phone. When home, these wests can be mounted on a window or porch and continue to generate electricity as long as there is sunlight.
Boda-boda riders use mobile phones as an essential tool in their business, which includes bicycle rides for individuals who travel from “border to border”, through no man’s land between country borders…
[Via: renewbl]