posted by Simon on Jun 29
Glastonberry Solar Tent Concept
The Glastonbury Solar Concept Tent from the U.K. company Orange has called this “the tent of the future”. The tent has photovoltaic fabric, specially coated solar threads woven into the fabric. It can capture the suns rays and use them for some power later. Not only that, the tent has a wireless control hub to keep track of the energy generated and consumed. This hub has an LCD screen and a wireless Internet signal.
Another interesting feature is Glo-cation technology. This enables campers to find their tent using an SMS message or automatic active RFID tech. So if you can’t find your tent, simply send a text, and the Glastonbury will glow for you. If the temps should happen to fall beyond a set level, the groundsheet heat, an internal heating element embedded within the tent’s groundsheet, will automatically come on. Not sure when or if we will see this product in stores but if we did, I could certainly learn to love the great outdoors then!
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