Get Outdoors!

You might not think taking your expensive portable technology into rugged terrain is a good idea, but there’s no reason to use the excuse that your MacBook or iPod are too delicate to take outside as to eschew the great outdoors—or an opportunity to exercise and breathe fresh air. With the proper gear, your tunes and your data can venture outside with you and go back inside no worse for the wear.

Solio Magnesium Edition. Untethered from a wall outlet, the Solio Magnesium Edition lets you to charge your electronic devices for free, as long as you can find a bit of sunshine. The Magnesium has an internal rechargeable battery, so you can leave the charger wherever it can catch the most rays, and re-up your device later, allowing you to keep the Solio charged for future use. Out of the box, the Magnesium Edition can charge any device that connects via a standard USB cable, including iPods and iPhones. Additionally, the Solio Magnesium includes a charging cable for the iGo tip system (www.igo.com) and one free iGo tip by mail. In our tests, an hour of bright sunlight amounted to nearly as much iPod playing time, and the fully charged Solio juiced up two cell phones and topped off an iPod.