I reserved one (and so has a mate of mine) mostly to support the development of the bigger version , the one designed for the third world countries.

The village where my parents grew up (in the Italian alps) still had many houses with open fires when I was in my teens (I cooked on them...) and folk that used them all their life did suffer from the effect of smoke.
I saw the same thing in Nepal a few years ago .
A stove that can charge multiple devices at the same time as heating and cooking will make a big difference to the life of folk in remote areas .
Just having a light on will help...

Back to the small version.
Obviously a wood burning stove is only practical where you can burn wood and it is plentiful, however a solar panel is also only practical where the sun is shining and for many hours a day.
Often the two do not coincide. So I see the BioLite and solar panels complementing each other rather than competing.

Franco
BTW, here is another version of a fan forced portable wood burning stove :
http://www.solhuma.com/products.php?idCatPri=2&lang=en&idCatLevel=16&idPro=9
($129 here in Melbourne)