Squeezing some green-friendly juice out of the sweet orange of the sun to charge your MacBook isn’t a totally unpleasant thought. Picture an azure-skied spring day, taking your work to the park, ...

Voltaic Systems has been making backpacks and laptop cases with built-in solar chargers since 2004. But so far most of the company’s backpacks have only generated enough electricity to charge small ...

Just about everyone who has traveled with a laptop for business or pleasure has wished for more run time from their battery at some point. Some computer have removable batteries that can be swapped ...

A solar-powered laptop? Uh-huh! Tipped at MWC 2025, this prototype PC has panels on its lid to convert sunshine or ambient light into battery life. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years ...

Solar chargers have come a long way thanks to new high-efficiency panels and rugged designs. We favor units with an onboard battery, which let us bank energy to use in driving rain, at night, and in ...

The Solar Joos Orange is a portable solar battery charger. It’s designed to charge cell phones, tablets, GPS units, MP3 players, digital cameras and more. It’s a very rugged unit with a polycarbonate ...

The sun is finally making a comeback, which means festivals, garden parties and – most thrillingly of all – the prospect of harvesting free electricity from the sky using one of the best portable ...