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Photos: Top tech for the festival season

Charge your phone and find your tent in the dark...

Tags: sat nav, nfc

By Tim Ferguson

Published: 26 June 2008 17:33 GMT


With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the most interesting tech O2 and Orange have come up with to improve the festival experience.

This is Orange's Recharge Pod which is being used at Glastonbury. It uses solar and wind power to charge up festival goers' mobile phones. It can charge up to 100 phones at a time.

Picture credit: Orange


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