Is hooking up electronics to a phone jack unethical? Maybe, but the RJ11 lamp can at least save some cash. The lamp, which features 8 LED bulbs, gets power from your phone socket instead of the grid ...

In off-grid communities, the power of plants can be harnessed to create just enough electricity to change lives. As its Spanish name suggests, the Plantalámparas is a lamp that runs on plant power.

While those of us living in First World countries may take an easily-accessible source of continuously-flowing electricity for granted, such is not the case in developing nations. Many communities ...

February 20, 2008 It’s the environmentally friendly lamp with gravitas. Clay Moulton, a Virginia Tech student, has created a 58-inch tall floor lamp powered entirely by gravity. Gravia uses a slowly ...

As part of a research initiative on how to harness off-grid energy for low-power electronics, a pair of U.K.-based designers created a lamp that uses gravity to generate light. Martin Riddiford, ...

Solar day lamps (SDL) are simple and cost-effective. A few examples of SDLs have been described in [1], [2] and [3]. An SDL without any energy storage element suffers from frequent changes in the ...

When you’re living in a remote area that’s miles away from the grid, you need to find alternative ways to power your daily activities. The SALt lamp requires only a cup of salt water in order to ...

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Power banks may be unsexy, but they still get me all stirred up in the loins. What? No, I don’t want to see therapist again. Stop saying that. Anyway, it’s tough to make external battery packs stand ...

A London design consultancy has developed a cheap, clean, and safer alternative to the kerosene lamp. Kerosene burning lamps are thought to be used by over a billion people in developing nations, ...

A British company hopes to bring electric light to 1.5billion people who live off the grid with an incredible electric light that is powered by gravity. The GravityLight uses a sack of sand to ...