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Solar Panels in the Screens of Smartphones Could Power the Devices (smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by pif on March 5, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> Phones, like Samsung’s Blue Earth, have solar cells embedded on the back. But when using a phone, the back is obscured by your hand, and it's the screen that gets the most exposure to light. So Kyocera has incorporated transparent solar technology into the screen of its rugged Torque line.




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