When I was a kid, a solar-powered lightbulb was a standing joke. A light powered by light? That’s like perpetual motion. Impossible! (I was pretty nerdy even back then). But with the wonders of modern technology, the same technology that brought us food-pills and jetpacks, the solar-powered lightbulb is here.
Made by Nokero, the lightbulb is claimed to be the “world’s only solar lightbulb”, although it seems to work a lot like the solar-powered lamps that my father has had in his garden for years. Designed for campers, the light has four solar-panels which charge the battery by day and five LEDs inside which glow for up to four-hours at night.
The bulbs are the same shape and size as the ones in your home, so you could even screw it into a standard fitting. The NiMH battery should last two years, and can be replaced. The bulbs cost $15 each.
So there we have it. The impossible made possible, a light-powered light. What next? A paperless book, a kind of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with a battery that lasts a month? Wait. What?
World’s Only Solar Light Bulb [Nokero via Uncrate]
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