Aahana Bracelet is a Solar Lantern Bracelet designed specifically to be marketed in India. Aahana Bracelet is worn by women during the daytime to charge its solar cells by the sun’s rays, powering its LED to produce light when night falls. This Solar Bracelet replaces the use of harmful and expensive kerosene for lighting homes and it will surely help in improving the productivity and comfort in an off-grid home in Indian villages.

Aahana Bracelet was designed by Melissa Hui Wang and instructed by Choi, Young-Mi from School of Industrial Design, Georgia Tech, Atlanta.

Incoming search terms for the article:

Millions of poor homes in Philippines – and a lot more around the world – in the dark because the metal roof block all light and no connection to electricity in informal settlements.

A student of MIT found that one-liter plastic bottle filled with water and bleach and then mounted on a metal roof is a simple way to light homes that have no electrical connectivity or natural lighting. It was called Solar Bottle Bulb.

How to Make, How to Work and Spec of Solar Bottle Bulb

1. Fill plastic bottles with water and bleach then capped; bleach works to make the water clear and also to prevent fungus or microbe.
2. Make holes in the metal roofs, insert the bottle and then sealed to avoid leaks when it rains.
3. Plastic bottles refract sun light and pushed into every corner of the home rather than to highlight one area like an ordinary lamp.
4. Simple technology that can be installed in less than an hour, lasting for five years, and equivalent with 60-watt light bulb.

As part of their Solar Bottle Project, Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) organization has installed 10,000 of Solar Bottle Bulb throughout Manila.

Photo: Isang Litrong Liwanag

[Via]

Incoming search terms for the article:

A simple geographical background, Cambodia is an ASIAN country. In Cambodia, more than 70% of the native population has no access to grid facilities. After sunset it will be very difficult for people in Cambodia to perform everyday activity, such as cooking, reading, eating, etc.. They used kerosene lamps that are expensive and risky for a fire due to the high content of wood in the house they make. Moonlight, a solar-powered lantern has been designed to remove or provide an alternative source of electricity and kerosene lamps.

Moonlight can be purchased or leased for amounts of less than $ 0.8/day in rural areas of Cambodia and solve the problem of lighting in the dark, along with that it is very easy and absolutely safe to carry around.

About Moonlight Solar-Powered Lantern

• Manufactured by KamWorks
• Price: $25

Photos by Mathieu Young

Incoming search terms for the article:

Solar powered lights will provide all you need to light the yard, deck, or garden with a very easy and efficient. Many people now use solar lighting to decorate and lighting outside the home. Solar lighting is easy to install and can truly add elegance and style of your house outside. Outdoor solar lights are easy to install and will also help conserve household energy use and very safe to use because you do not need to use cable and cord.

Outdoor solar lights have a solar panel that will gather sunlight and convert it into electricity. If more sunlight collected by the panel, the solar powered lights will last longer and brighter.

Sunlight into the panel for six to eight hours is optimal, and can provide power to the outdoor solar lighting for a full night. Six to eight hours of sunlight can produce eight to twelve hours light. You need to place outdoor solar lights in a place where there is no shade and outdoor solar lights are ideal for the place where you can not install the power cord to the standard lamp.

Solar outdoor lighting is not be as bright as standard electrical powered light bulb. So, this is must be think first before making a purchase. Outdoor solar lights will not illuminate the entire region, such as spotlight and is used only for decorative purposes and track lighting.

Solar outdoor lights that is now more powerful than the first. Solar powered lights that you buy now comes with a battery that can be filled with a high efficiency. Light that emanated from the outdoor solar lights are now brighter and more white than the old version. Solar powered lights are also new is far more powerful and have longer endurance.

Solar powered lights are available in many shops that provide equipment for the garden and the pages and also available for sale online. If purchased online, you can save more money, not to mention there are many more and varied options.

Incoming search terms for the article:

Designed by Joe Bufkin, this was an InnoCentive challenge project to design a diffuser for an existing solar flashlight. The requesters wanted a diffuser so that the flashlight could be used for general illumination in a room in countries with no electrical grid. The part shown in red is the prototype model he constructed from PVC. He has included pictures of the prototype and two drawings that he also submitted.

Incoming search terms for the article:

Jeff Tani, an electronics engineer & solar backpack designer who is good at developing solar-energy products and design of any outdoor equipment combining with solar panel.

Recently, Jeff Tani designed Solar Lanterns, the latest solar products for your yard or garden.

Solar Lanterns specification:

• Solar Panel Spec.: 2v/0.4W
• Light Source: 3 Led High brightness
• Brightness: 2400 MCD
• Lighting Time: >13 hrs
• Build-in Battery: Ni-MH 800 mA
• LED color: Red, Blue, Green, Amber

Incoming search terms for the article:

What does the traffic light do?
What are you doing while while waiting for the green light?

Designed by Psychic Factory, the Droplet Traffic Light is a new traffic light that displays the latest news in blurbs, along with weather conditions. It is even eco-conscious as well as solar powered, making it comfortable and green.

psychic factory traffic light from psychicfactory on Vimeo.

Incoming search terms for the article:

Kusto is an exclusive lampshade that looks like a decorative piece when unfolded, and turned into a lampshade when folded. In the daytime, the colored surface (Dye Solar Cells) of shade harnesses sunlight unfolded onto a window glass, and stored energy transformed into light at night.

Functional prototype realized with Solaronix, presented during the worldwide exposition (Sunny Memories).

Via: Atelierpeekaboo

Incoming search terms for the article:

Emma Caselton designed Solar Garden Lamp that charges itself during the day and shine in your garden at night. The solar garden lamp, with six illuminating petals, is suspended by use of its cable give the appearance of falls butterfly wings that are illuminated. Made of transparent solar cells and each one embedded with LED, making the solar panels as a decorative element and also the environmentally friendly power source for illuminate your grass, garden or pond side.

Incoming search terms for the article:

Solar Pebble designed by Adam Robinson for Plus Minus Solar is a solar powered lamp that targeted for use in rural Africa, as innovative humanitarian products, and at home in England as a perfect gift for outdoors, camping and festival enthusiasts. The LED of Solar Pebble powered by batteries charged from the sun through a small solar panel. It can also charge cell phones and other devices. The shifting ratchet handle makes the product possible to be carried and tilted when standing or suspended.