WakaWaka Light
WakaWaka
Solution Overview & Benefits
WakaWaka Light is a compact, highly efficient solar powered flashlight.
- The WakaWaka Light uses clean energy, and a full charge takes only 5 to 8 hours of sun thanks to its integrated and efficient solar panel.
- With a solar-rechargeable lamp, you can always signal in an emergency, especially as the WakaWaka Light includes an SOS setting.
- Choose your level of intensity with four light settings.
- A fully charged WakaWaka Light gives you up to 40 hours of bright, solar-powered light.
History & Development
It has been found that replacing kerosene lamps with off-grid solar powered products saves money, results in better school grades for kids and increases income-generating capacity for families as a whole. Burn risk, unhealthy side effects and carbon-emissions are eliminated while the ability to charge mobile phones enables communication and entrepreneurship. Acces to local, sustainable energy is a fundamental human right - it empowers, it powers connectivity and it saves lives.
WakaWaka’s story began in 2010, when future founders Maurits Groen and Camille van Gestel ran an active lobby to green the South Africa World Cup. Their design for an ultra-efficient LED lamp to replace millions of incandescent lamps won an international competition for emission-reduction ideas. VisitingSouth Africa one thing struck them very powerfully: namely, the number of South Africans who lived off the electricity grid and for which the wonderful invention was therefore useless.
Availability
- Publicly available: yes
- Countries where available: Worldwide
- Price range (USD): 29 to 50
- Available online: yes
Specifications
- Battery: 500 mAh, LiPo
- Solar panel: 18% mono-crystalline solar panel
- LED: 2 focussed LEDs, 110 lumen/Watt
- Max light output: >25 Lumen
- Indicator: 1 solar charge indicator LED
- Power Management: Patented Intivation SunBoost chip
- Housing: 100% recycled PC-ABS, high impact resistant
- Positioning: Table top, on a bottle, hanging from the ceiling
- Dimensions: 120 x 65 x 15 mm
- Weight: 96 grams
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