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07-01-2014, 08:00 PM
It wasn’t long ago that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “vowed to eradicate” Twitter. Citizens successfully fought his attempt at censorship, and the demand for Web access remains high—even among Turkey’s sheepherders, who are strapping solar panels to their donkeys to go online in the remote countryside. Solar panel company Ser-Gün teamed up with a local sheepherding association to produce the Plug-and-Play Solar Pack. The panels it contains can generate as much as seven kilowatts of electricity, which can power and tether (to connect a mobile phone to a device for Internet access) cell phones and laptops.

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