More solar powered shenanigans for Friday, this time is to building world. The LuminAID Light consists of a solar panel, a slimline battery and a few LEDs, all wrapped up in a tough, inflatable cosmetic bag.
The flare itself is deceased simple, and thus reduction expected to go wrong. The bag inflates similar to a span of kids' H2O wings, permitting it to float and moreover diffusing the pointy light from the LEDs inside. Once charged by sunlight, the flare can put out 35 lumens of light (high) for 4 hours, and 20 lumens for 6 hours on low. The battery may be cycled 800 times before it dies.
The scheme, being launched on Kickstarter-alike Indiegogo, functions similar to the OLPC give-on-get-one campaign. You pay $25 for two LuminAIDs. One is sent to you, and one is sent to help people in building countries. You can moreover select to only send a flare to somebody who needs it for $10. And since they fill up gaunt and flat, 50 LuminAIDs may be shipped in the space indispensable for only 8 periodic solar flashlights.
LuminAID [LuminAID Lab. Thanks, Nadin!]
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