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Sunny Delight

By popsci Posted 05.31.2006 at 12:39 pm 1 Comment

What to do with a pair of cheap speakers and those extra solar panels you have lying around? Blogger Radu got some balsa wood and built a solar-powered boom box. You could do the same: Just attach an MP3 player to the back, let it bake in the sun for a while and rock out to some tinny tunes. Why? Because its summer and you can.
Link via Hacked Gadgets. —Mike Haney

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