Minister Cramer tests first solar-powered mouse

Minister Cramer of the Ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment is taking part in a user trial of the world's first exclusively photovoltaic-powered (PV) computer mouse. The trial should demonstrate whether the mouse, named 'Sole Mio', can be fully charged during busy daily activities. The computer mouse was developed within the Syn-Energy programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO in Dutch), in which the Universities of Twente and Utrecht, ECN and TU Delft cooperate closely. Minister Cramer’s Sole Mio is one of the first test series of 15. The minister has been asked to take part as a tester in the user trials to see whether the unit can reach its full charge during busy daily activities. For TU Delft and its partners the Sole Mio is primarily a demonstration design, which should show whether renewable energy products, with higher functionality and given an attractive form, would also encourage users to adopt modern and consistently sustainable conduct.//TUDelft