Apple patents solar panels for portable devices

Displays of future devices will turn into batteries.

To the manufacturers of portable technology, improving and introducing into their products durable solar panels, joined the company Apple. In its new patent application called “Solar Batteries for Portable Devices,” Apple revealed plans to equip devices such as iPods and MacBooks with solar-powered batteries.



"Solar panels are usually made of transparent and opaque elements," explained in the patent. “Some transparent elements can be used to cover the display or keyboard of the device, be applied in the form of a logo, or cover the entire device body with them (Motorola recently patented this technology).”
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Although the effectiveness of today's solar cells and their production technologies cast doubt on the possibility of implementing this project, the idea itself seems very interesting. At the very least, such batteries, as an additional battery, can successfully replace a battery that is discharged on the road, and thus save the owner from unnecessary trouble.

Based on materials from www.engadgetmobile.com