Zyrus Solar charger | USB Memory Stick
Zyrus combine solar energy and memory in a practical device.
Memory sticks are everywhere now being a much more convenient device for transferring files between computers then copying everything on to CD or DVD. You might even have one attached to your key-chain loaded up with photos, music or those little flash games that you are addicted too.
Over the years the storage capacity has increased just like computer RAM. You can now carry around Gigabytes of data in this little device ready to be inserted in to virtually any modern computer that has a USB socket.
Zyrus, a Korean Company, have taken an extra little step combining two of the most wanted gadgets around today, The Sun-Drive is a USB storage device that is also a Solar Powered Charger. Needing just around 15 hours of the free environmentally friendly sunlight to fully charge the Sun-Drive and if your using your USB Memory stick plugged in to your laptop computer while you laze around outside in the sun then it will constantly keep topping itself up while you browse those important files. In addition to being charged by Solar powered the device can be quickly energized to full capacity in around 50 minutes by the USB connection on your computer.
The Sun-Drive comes in various versions with memory capacities ranging from 2 Gigabytes up to a staggering 16 Gigabytes, That should be enough storage spaces for those MP3`s or collection of photos that you never want to be without.
Also being a Solar powered energy storage device this has the ability to power your other gadgets that you carry around. Those mobile phones or MP3 and MP4 players and virtually most modern portable electrical devices.
When the batteries in your mobile phone loose their charge this Sun-Dive is capable of giving around 30 hours of standby time and up to an hour of extra talk time for you cell phone.
Measuring just 64mm x 25.8mm the USB Sun-Drive is small enough to be hardly noticed an the combination of two devices, the UBS storage and Solar Charger, make this an ideal combination that should be a standard in a few year. Or at the rate of development in Solar and Portable devices standard in a few months.
Available shortly in the Korean electronics market, the Sun-Drive will cost around the equivalent US$23. Expect worldwide availability shortly of this and other great idea of using solar energy in electronics.
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