Inflatable, rechargeable, waterproof and solar powered. It can hold a charge for up to 12 hours and stays bright all night long. The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show innovation design award winner and its company, MPOWERD, is the national honoree of the KATERVA sustainability awards.
LUCI – Inflatable Solar Lantern
A revolutionary product In the hands of people that do not have and have never had electricity this is a life changing product. But, lets rein in the claims a bit. It takes direct sun to get a full charge and from my tests on the 6 lanterns that I bought it is about an hour per hour trade off, hour of sun, hour of good light. On a day of fairly bright overcast my lantern just charged enough to give a little more than an hour of bright light and I am at 9 degrees north latitude in Panama. On the sunny days I get 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 hours of light that everyone sitting around my four foot round table can easily read by, even my 71 year old eyes have no problem. I would like to get more of these lights into the hands of the Indian people here, many of these villages have never had light after the sun went down. This is not darkest Africa, this is Panama, you know the canal, the huge new Trump Hotel, beyond Panama city are many that still commute by paddling dugout canoes. Anyway I will be ordering more Luci…
Nice concept, so-so performance 0