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Advertisement charging a cellphone

Nice idea for an advert for Nivea sun care products: A solar panel integrated into a printed magazine ad allows to use the sun not only for tanning, but also for charging your mobile phone.

by WAN-IFRA Staff executivenews@wan-ifra.org | June 18, 2013

This is innovative advertising and it shows the power of print! The ad, which ran in the Brazilian magazine Veja Rio, includes a wafer-thin solar panel and a phone plug for charging.

What might appear as a marketing gimmick is not far from reality. The Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany, presented a technology to print solar cells on paper already in 2011 The technology is called 3PV (printed paper photo voltaics) and uses a normal print process to apply special ink with electrical properties to paper. Electricity is generated when the paper is exposed to light.

A video shows the device in action.

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