Simon Wilby is the inventor of The Smart One device that promotes solar energy which helps in decreasing one’s electric bill in addition to doing away with the national power grid. Aside from that, it also saves electricity and is quite handy. This device is a mechanical tool that fastens itself to an individual’s mobile phone and charges by using solar power. Moreover, Simon Wilby states that aside from sunlight, any ambient light will do.

Simon Wilby notes that this is just the beginning and that handy phones are just the first to benefit from this type of technology. This is because The Smart One is easy to manipulate and can be applied to different types of mechanical or electronic contrivances that humans use on a daily basis. Some of the gadgets that can benefit from this technology would be game consoles, music players and laptops. This can also be applied to power street lights which would save the government million of dollars.

Simon Wilby’s ingenious invention, The Smart One is a device that has the capability to transfer light energy into electric power which greatly benefits society. This is why it is supported by the government sector and by those who believe in going green.

The Smart One is a useful product that attaches to a cellular phone and lets it charge using solar power although practically any light source ensures your mobile phone is always powered up.

The brainchild of Canadian inventor Simon Wilby, The Smart One works discreetly with your phone. You don’t have to worry about lugging around one gadget to power another.

Next up for Simon Wilby is to adapt the technology used in The Smart One for other portable gadgets. Laptops, music players, and basically any handheld device might soon be freed from power cords and downtime. Eventually, the technology might even find applications to power streetlamps and reduce our dependence on traditional power sources like fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

It’s a brave new world and Simon Wilby is The Smart One with the right ideas to take us there.

The Smart Power, Inc’s CEO, Simon Wilby, invented a solar-powered lithium battery specially designed for that ubiquitous feature of modern life: the cell phone.

When he couldn’t take any more of the endless aggravation brought on by his cell phone battery dying on him right in the middle of important conversations, Simon Wilby took action. He figured that creating a new battery powered by the sun — a limitless source of energy – is the first thing he needed to do. With pen and paper in hand, he designed a new battery that can make his life easier, and possibly, the lives of the billions of cell phone users all over the world. His new battery will be retrofitted into the cell phones already in use around the world. The solar panels will be integrated into the new battery cover that will come with his new battery. He had his design prototyped in China and the final product became “The Smart one.”

Simon Wilby and his company, The Smart Power, Inc., launched The Smart One in February this year. It is set to conquer the world of mobile communications technology. Obsolescence is the fate The Smart One has in store for wall socket chargers; freedom from their dependence on said wall socket chargers is what it offers the everyday cell phone user.

Simon Wilby, is the CEO of The Smart Power, Inc., a Barbados-based company that offers practical solutions to many of today’s technological problems. A U.K.-born Canadian, Simon Wilby started inventing things when he moved from the U.K. to Canada in 1991. In Canada, he quickly made a name for himself as an inventor and an entrepreneur

What set everything into motion for Simon Wilby seemed rather simple. Being a pet-lover and having five dogs to keep track of, he was inspired to invent a device which would enable him to constantly maintain contact with his beloved pets. This device is a two-way voice collar communication system which useful to him personally, as well as the man dog-owners who might find themselves in the same predicament.

Next on the list of Simon Wilby’s inventions is a solar-powered lithium battery for cell phones. Exasperated by the frequency with which his cell phone was dying on him right in the middle of an important call, he thought of solar-powered batteries as a solution. This battery called “The Smart One” is being manufactured and marketed by The Smart Power, Inc. to help people like him who are frequently on the go and who conduct their businesses via phones. Finally — though not the last of his inventions — are solar-powered batteries for laptops, “The Smart Juice.”

The Smart Power, Inc. is a Barbados-based company that uses “clean technology” in manufacturing consumer products. Clean technology has become a buzz phrase in the wake of the recent global oil crisis which drove home the ominous message that the energy that fuels industries, and which practically makes the world go round, is not inexhaustible. On the other hand, solar energy is limitless, and as yet, underutilized. This is something Simon Wilby, CEO of The Smart Power, Inc., knows and intends to make full use of.

Simon Wilby is a U.K.-born, Canadian entrepreneur-cum-inventor. Frustration prodded him to create an alternative battery for cell phones which is solar-based, lasts longer and can charge with practically any source of light, at all. This eventually became “The Smart One” — which is the lithium-based, solar-powered battery that comes with a 20-second retrofit kit now being offered by The Smart Power, Inc. on the market. Ever the innovator, Simon Wilby extended this idea into the realm of laptops, which he calls “The Smart Juice.”

These are only two of Simon Wilby’s inventions. Indeed, the consumer products on the menu of The Smart Power, Inc. are smart, and as they mostly harness the power of the sun, clean.

According to Simon Wilby, he finds Barbados to be such a wonderful country filled with natives who never ceases to amaze him; with its people being so friendly and welcoming to visitors. Simon Wilby’s main consideration, however, is the country’s climate. The island is a place where the sun never seems to stop shinning.

This is the reason why, Simon Wilby who happens to be the CEO of “The Smart Power” as well as being the creator of “The Smart One” chose the sunny Bridgetown, Barbados as the site of the international head office of his corporation.

It is a fact worth acknowledging that the island is the perfect place to establish a company whose principle product is a battery that has the ability to harness solar power which can be used with portable appliances, gizmos and gadgets such as cell phones.

True enough, solar technology is extremely much more superior and efficient compared to electronic technology. Since it is deemed as a type of Green Energy, it is much safer for the environment.

This technology by Simon Wilby enables cell phone users to get rid of their conventional batteries and the way they use to charge by means of using electricity. With “The Smart One” device, all you have to do is expose your mobile phone to any light and it will automatically charge up. This has been proven with the successful launch of “The Smart One” in Barbados last December 2008. Simon Wilby definitely struck gold with this one.

Simon Wilby is smart enough to notice that more and more businesses as well as individuals are slowly turning to solar power in preparation for the future. Simon Wilby’s creation, “The Smart One” is positioned to modernize the means in which we view the usage of solar power in our everyday life.

Simon Wilby’s “The Smart One” device is effortlessly clever and yet, it is an aftermarket product that is efficient when it tackles mobile phones which are easily fitted into using a tool that enables mobile phones into solar powered devices. It employs an exceptionally competent - mega thin plastic solar cell as oppose to the conventional silicon to exploit the compilation of energy from virtually any light source.

In addition to portable devices, several common domestic gadgets will soon have the opportunity to use the similar technology to that of “The Smart One” as produced by Simon Wilby. He is currently in the creative process of designing as well as patenting a solar power cell “skin” to be used for laptops; the purpose of which is to dissolve the use of bulky conventional chargers.

The future looks kindly on Simon Wilby. His inventions will soon be the talk of the town and his future will be sealed sweetly.

Simon Wilby is not only a genius but an animal lover as well. He adopted a dog and named him Levi who happens to be an 11 year-old black lab scheduled for euthanasia due to old age and high vet bills.

Even though Levi came with a lot of expensive hospital bills due to his many ailments, Simon Wilby never thought twice spending on his adopted dog.

He created an organization that helps pet owners who have high vet bills to pay for their beloved pet. Simon Wilby started “The Second Chance Foundation”.

Simon Wilby was quoted as saying: “Nine out of ten times when someone cannot afford astronomical fees, the vet will suggest to the owner that their pet be put to sleep. There are no payment plans for vet services; it’s almost like holding the pet for ransom if its owner cannot pay. The Second Chance will be sending money directly to the vet so the pet will get whatever help it needs when it is sick or injured. I just love animals and want to be able to give back to them for all they have done for me.

Simon Wilby finally took his pet Levi home and got along well with his other pets namely - Rigs, Emmy, George, and Abbie which happens to be all dogs and Cinder and Bear are the cats. Levi is likely to have a full recovery someday. Simon Wilby is fine with that. He just wants to enjoy his lab more than anything else in the world.

From the brilliant mind of British-Canadian inventor Simon Wilby comes The Smart One, a gadget that could leave your mobile phone’s charger in the dust bin. Wilby’s invention uses cutting edge technology to use an ancient power source – the Sun.

Unlike conventional batteries that use silicon cells, The Smart One uses plastic cells that retain full circuitry for faster and more efficient charging. It’s so efficient at storing power that it will continue to charge even if partially covered under ambient light.

Simon Wilby demonstrated the potential of The Smart One at its launch in Barbados in December of 2008 when he took out his own mobile phone which had not been charged conventionally since March.

Pretty soon, consumers from around the world will be able to travel with their assorted gadgets like laptops, game consoles and whatnot sans charger, predicts Simon Wilby. We like that…a lot.

Simon Wilby, inventor of The Smart One, a device which effectively turns regular cell phones into solar powered devices, has lined up several new applications of the same ingenious technology behind The Smart One with more and more applications on the horizon.

Simon Wilby is constantly on the look out for new and exciting applications for the ultra thin, plastic solar cells that made The Smart One possible. He has already adapted the technology to be used for laptops, eliminating the chronic dependence laptop users have on chargers and wall sockets.

Not all of  Simon Wilby’s solar panel applications are for home use though. Plans are already in the works to devise a system of street lights that work using solar power. This brave innovation could potentially save governments millions in electric bills annually. Who knows? Traffic lights might be the next thing to get the green light for “green energy.”