Solar headphone radio: MC Hammerin’ your way into the year 2002

Even with online radio, streaming services, and mp3 players, some people still love good ‘ol fashioned radio. Who says FM is dead? While I personally don’t listen to terrestrial radio any more simply because they never play anything outside of the top 50 popular songs, repeating each one until it’s imprinted in every nook and cranny of my brain. Personal gripes aside, sporting your FM radio on the go can be done in so many ways as FM radios have taken an almost infinite array of shapes and sizes. One style in particular, the headband radio is to me, the most iconic image of 80’s technology and the personal radio. If you’re going to be a complete nerd walking around in your MC Hammer pants, cut off t, and walking along noddin’ your head, you might as well at least use the latest and greatest in technology. Throw out those sweat stained, older than dirt headband radios you’ve been using and replace them with the Solar Headphone Radio. It’s no secret what the highlight is here — solar power in a headband radio. It makes sense doesn’t it? Unless you walk on your head, it’s usually pointing in a northernly direction meaning it should grasp at least a few waves of sweet mother sun’s gleaming light. How well does it work?

One hour of sunlight is enough to keep you bangin’ to the beats for 1-3 hours of uninterrupted music. When fully charged, the AAA NiMH battery will allow you to strut your 80’s stuff for a good 20 hours before the good times (and memories) get replaced by cold silence and the sound of your foot steps reverberating through your headphones. Super. As much as I joke, it isn’t a bad design or idea at all. Is £24.95 (~ $41.42 USD) too much to relive those glory days?