EcoFlow’s Energy Hat is a floppy, phone-charging photo voltaic lid in your noggin

EcoFlow’s new Energy Hat have to be the dorkiest piece of headgear I’ve ever heard of — and I feel I like it? It’s a wide-brimmed floppy-ish solar hat filled with photo voltaic cells you can cost your telephone with. EcoFlow says it may possibly cost a 4,000mAh smartphone to capability “in as quick as 3–4 hours.” Sounds supreme for casually scrolling feeds at a campsite or surviving in a sun-blasted, Mad Maxian desert wasteland.

Based on EcoFlow’s specs, the $129 Energy Hat’s photo voltaic cells are comprised of a skinny, versatile materials referred to as passivated emitter and rear contact (PERC) monocrystalline silicon. It provides roughly 12-watt charging by way of the USB-A and USB-C connectors on the underside of the brim. The entire thing weighs 370 grams.

Oh, and the Energy Hat is IP65 rated, that means it’s dust-proof and might face up to water jets from any course (though I query whether or not that holds true in the event you’re pointing an excellent soaker on the USB ports). Right here’s a promotional video, full with an inoffensive, vaguely Kings of Leon-sounding soundtrack, which is ideal floppy hat music if my previous music competition expertise is any indication:

The hat is available in two dimension ranges. The smaller one is adjustable between 56–58cm (22–22.8 inches) whereas the bigger dimension is 59–61cm (23.2–24 inches). The Energy Hat can be accessible in preorder till August thirty first and EcoFlow says it expects to begin delivery them out in mid-September.