The Apple Company has successfully filed a patent allowing them to integrate solar cells into their array of portable devices by placing them underneath the layers of a touch-sensitive display. This was according to the delivered patent application. Solar power helps immensely in making devices portable because they will no longer need wires to connect them to a power supply.
The larger the solar cell panel, however, occupies a large amount of space, leaving only a small area for other tools. How is this solved? One way around this dilemma is to stack a touch-sensitive layer, a display and a solar panel on top of the other.
Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch then make good candidates for this new form of power supply because the display itself occupies almost the entire face. As of today, the use of solar-powered charging is getting all the rage, especially with the highly mobile lives people now lead. They will no longer worry about having to carry around their chargers because their phone will be able recharge by itself.
The wonderful thing about solar-powered energy is that it is able to dramatically reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 by 50 percent. If all the mobile applications used this, the future of the world may not be as bleak as it is today.
At the recent ITU Telecom Africa 2008 Conference, the members discussed the promising results of this form of power. Apple may become the leader of this new trend, thus providing people the technology that they need without the danger of exposure to harmful gasses.
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