November 30, 2012
Over at GigaOm, Katie Fehrenbacher highlights a new business that could greatly help the lives of people affected by events like hurricanes:
In the wake of super storm Sandy, images emerged of New Yorkers without power crowded around public outlets desperate to charge their cell phones. A Serbian startup called Strawberry Energy has actually been installing devices, well before Sandy hit, that would have come in pretty handy after the storm’s power crunch.
Strawberry Energy builds solar-powered public charging stations that enable passersby to charge up their cell phones and gadgets.