I love gadgets. Yeah, I love gadgets and gizmos a lot. I was employed once solely because of my fanaticism to gadgets and gizmos. Oh, the glory days…but I digress. I’ve been enjoyed the Sony PSP since I got mine in the US in May, but one of the shortcomings is battery life. You have to keep recharging the thing. This isn’t a problem in itself, but when I saw this solar charger from Logic 3, I just had to give it a go. The unit itself is made from shiny black plastic and opens up to reveal two solar panels. These are to be exposed to the light and recharge the inbuilt LI-ON battery inside the unit. It should take around 8 hours to charge it in good light and then you can use the charget to either charge up your PSP or use it as an external battery/power source. This is great if you are travelling and aren’t near a power supply. I’ve been using it for a day now and I am impressed. I can keep my PSP topped up or I can run it from the Solar Charger. How cool is that? However it does take an awful long time to charge via the solar panels (but that’s living in England at this time of year) but you can use the PSP’s charger to boost power levels – though this defeats the whole point of the solar charger. So it’s a good idea, but it is let down by the lack of sunshine at the moment! 🙂

The Logic 3 Solar Charger
It cost me a reasonable £23 from Simplygames.com and you can read more about this handy device here.
If I were to give this a rating, I would give it a healthy **** out of ***** (That’s 4 out of 5 stars, purely for effort) 😉

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