You might have a sunny disposition, but a new garment gadget could just turn you into a solar power source as you walk around.
Well here’s a gadget we didn’t have on the 2024 bingo card: a garment you can use to replenish your phone’s battery supply.
If that sounds too crazy to be true, think again, because the power storage folks at EcoFlow actually have a hat that can do just that.
Called the “Power Hat”, it’s not a hat that will give you power over people, but rather power for your devices, thanks to a cable and a series of solar panels built into its design.
Shaped like a sun hat and incorporating solar panels in the brim, EcoFlow’s Power Hat is essentially a solar panel that you wear, allowing you to harness the power of the sun as you go walking around, recharging a device either as you wear it, or even when the hat isn’t being worn.
Wearable solar panels: that’s what we’re talking about.
While a fan might be one of those things you might want your hat to provide, EcoFlow’s Power Hat is basically an IP65 water resistant sun hat designed to charge up to two devices at once, coming with both an old-school rectangular USB-A port and the common USB-C port, which means two devices being charged at once from the same source… a hat.
The hat will weigh 370 grams making it slightly heavier than other sun hats, with these typically coming in under 250 grams, at least from experience.
It’s also more costly than most sun hats, especially in comparison to the classic Bunnings Australian straw sun hat, which retails for around $7. By comparison, the EcoFlow Power Hat will cost $179 after October 31, with the early bird pricing sitting at $139.
That makes the EcoFlow Hat a little heftier in cost than other sun hats, even if it does something a little different, protecting your noggin’ from the sun while fuelling your phone.
Australians can expect to find this unique gadget from the EcoFlow site this week, priced at $139 to begin with and available in two sizes, medium and large.
