If you need flashlights - they do have a fairly nice set of solar flashlights at costco. They are 2 for $20.

They weigh 4 ounces and they're these ones:
http://www.hybridlite.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y


I use 'em while touring in my kayak - leave them strapped to the front deck at night and have them while I'm camping at night.


I've been avoiding solar chargers for now... I figure the longer I avoid buying them, the longer the technology will have to mature. There's a company that is working on making flexible paper thin solar cells, I can't remember the name.

Obviously, while I'm kayaking, weight & space isn't as big a deal as it is while backpacking or touring on a bike... but I have 2 batteries for my cell phone, and I've got a little thingie that I can pop a couple AA batteries into and charge my phone from the AA. My GPS uses AA batteries. I buy several hong kong cheapies batteries from ebay for my digital cameras and charge all fo those and just take along spare charged batteries. The rest of my headlamps or anything like that take AA, but i use those solar flashlights as much as possible. So I just take spare AA batteries with me.