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Tent Leeches Solar Power While Campers Leech Your Wi-Fi

Even if this tent were just a tent, it's fashionable enough to seriously covet. But because it's a concept with ubertech, the tent produces enough electricity to power a small town and connects to the internet wirelessly.

Telecommunication firm Orange's latest eco tent concept exploits photovoltaic fabric to produce energy without bulky, inflexible solar panels. This power feeds gadgets that are stored in a magnetic induction pouch, and also drives a flexible LCD screen with wireless internet.

The connectivity extends beyond the tent itself, however, as SMS or RFID can be deployed at any time to light up the tent, identifying your campsite (potentially, from afar). We're also guessing that the tent would obnoxiously pulsate any time you got a call to the rhythm of your ringer (Orange, feel free to use that idea, on us).

Who knows what Orange would charge for a monthly 3G tent subscription, but if you camped a WHOLE LOT...

         
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Posted by clementine 

Comments (4)

Jun 24, 2009
Nigel Lamb said...
I wonder what the RSS feed in the tent is for?
Jun 24, 2009
Hwee-Boon Yar said...
It's the magnetic induction pouch (sorry if that was meant as a joke, I couldn't tell).
Jun 24, 2009
Pedro Assuncao said...
It would be cool to be able to plug in your phone both to charge it and to provide Internet connection to other devices (tethering) while at it :)
Jul 06, 2009
Oli said...
i am more curious about the microwaves influences after spending a week holidays underneath the electro magnetic field.

If Orange can claim no troubles, like mobile phones heavy usage today ;) then i want one.
I will prefer a remote system than lying underneath the antenna field.

but definitively a great system for autonomous geolocalization for far remote location.

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