No, I did not mean Power Point:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4017784a11.html

Solar power breakthrough at Massey

By MERVYN DYKES - Manawatu Standard | Thursday, 5 April 2007

COLOUR THEIR FUTURE GREEN: Wayne Campbell, left, and Ashton Partridge
with a tiny demonstration solar panel filled with synthetic dye. Not
only is it environmentally friendly and capable of being made in New
Zealand, but it costs a fraction of the price of silicon cells.

This means teenagers could one day be wearing jackets that will
recharge their equivalents of cellphones, iPods and other battery-
driven devices.

The breakthrough is a development of the university's Nanomaterials
Research Centre and has attracted world-wide interest already -
particularly from Australia and Japan.

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