{"id":22742,"date":"2016-02-24T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/this-smartphones-display-is-also-a-solar-charger"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:58","slug":"this-smartphones-display-is-also-a-solar-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/this-smartphones-display-is-also-a-solar-charger","title":{"rendered":"This smartphone\u2019s display is also a solar charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-smartphones-display-is-also-a-solar-charger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You phone does all kinds of things when it\u2019s just lying there: checking your Facebook feed, pulling down Google Now updates, receiving emails and text messages. One thing it\u2019s not doing: giving your battery a break.<\/p>\n<p>Kyocera is <a href=\"http:\/\/liliputing.com\/2016\/02\/kyocera-demonstrates-solar-powered-smartphone-prototype.html\">working to change that<\/a>. How? By sandwiching a solar panel to a smartphone display. It\u2019s something they\u2019ve been working on in conjunction with Sunpartner Technologies. They actually showed off their progress last year at Mobile World Congress, and they returned this year to give the crowd a glimpse at their updated prototype.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an Android device with a five-inch screen, and like some of Kyocera\u2019s other phones it\u2019s waterproof and quite rugged. Curious how the solar layer affects the phone\u2019s display? Reports from people that have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/kyocera-solar-display-mwc-2016\/41987\/\">spent time with the device<\/a> say that you\u2019d be hard pressed to notice the difference. That\u2019s because the .55mm panel that Kyocera has integrated into their latest prototype\u2019s display is 85% transmissive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/this-kyocera-smartphones-display-is-also-a-solar-charger-1648136\/\">http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/this-kyocera-smartphones-display-is...r-1648136\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You phone does all kinds of things when it\u2019s just lying there: checking your Facebook feed, pulling down Google Now updates, receiving emails and text messages. One thing it\u2019s not doing: giving your battery a break. Kyocera is working to change that. How? By sandwiching a solar panel to a smartphone display. It\u2019s something they\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68253,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions\/68253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}