Solar Skin Cell Phones Edit

Eclipse Intuit
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Following Apple’s recent solar skin patent which promises portable gadgets that are covered with solar cells, we bring you the Eclipse Intuit Phone by designer Eddie Goh which follows the same concept.

Parts of the Eclipse phone are made from a chemically-based thin solar skin that charges the battery when exposed to any kind of light.

Other than the solar skin, the Eclipse concept comes with a 5 megapixel camera, slide-out touch keyboard with tactile feedback, integrated software for editing images and uploading to online photo albums, and the required humongous touchscreen.

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