Simms to distribute solar powered chargers used by the military

Powertraveller is a portable power solution that offers main, battery, USB and solar power to recharge mobile phones, cameras, GPS units, games, consoles iPods, MP3 players, laptops and netbooks.

Danny Moore, managing director, Simms International, said products such as the solarmonkey are well suited to the Australian market and have the potential to save people money as they can use these products to recharge their mobile devices instead of plugging into a power outlet.

"Solar technology has now come of its time. It's ready and it really does work. A few years ago it was in its infancy but now it's ready," he said.

The range will be launched through retail partner David Jones in 10 days time and on the Powertraveller website.

Moore said it has also been in discussions with Apple for some time and has already had success with the Royal Marines in the UK.

Simms International supplies IT products and accessories to the corporate, Apple and retail channels for vendors such as Apple, Kingston, Linksys by Cisco, Bose, Elgato, Fuji, STM, VMware, Filemaker, Roxio, Western Digital, Quark and Tuccano.

The Powertraveller products include:

Motormonkey: a small, lightweight car charger.

Powerchimp: battery based charger for portable gadgets and phones which re-juice rechargeable batteries.

Solarmonkey and Solarnut: portable devices which get their power directly from the sun.

Powermonkey-classic: charges popular phones and most cameras more than twice.

Powermonkey-explorer: LCD screen, rubber casing in four colours (blue, yellow, grey, pink), water resistant charger.

Powergorilla: emergency charger for all portable devices including a laptop.

Solargorilla: power anywhere under the sun.