The sturdiness and durability are in the material, and for the SAMMANLÄNKAD table lamp, that’s stainless steel for a quality finish that weathers the outdoors”, Philip explains. “Solar-powered products are best charged outdoors, so we have to make sure that they last in that environment. Like how every layer of glass in a window can significantly reduce the power of an indoor solar charge, even if it seems bright enough. Having worked with solar cells at IKEA since about 2006, Philip sits on a great deal of knowledge regarding the capacity of solar powered products, not least at scale. It’s really the size of the LED light source that makes this possible”, Philip explains. “An important aspect was to get a higher light output than the cosy, soft garden lighting with low power in this collaboration. An aspect he notes with particular enthusiasm is the power of the light, a feature managed to differentiate it from many decorative solar lamps on the market. The result? SAMMANLÄNKAD, two solar-powered LED lamps designed to spark curiosity about solar energy in everyday objects by artfully bringing a piece of the sun down to earth with them.Īt IKEA of Sweden in Älmhult, Product Design Engineer Philip Holm places the SAMMANLÄNKAD table lamp on a workshop table, going on to detail the lamp’s qualities. It’s something a collaboration between Little Sun and IKEA set out to change, joining the former’s work as a social business at the intersection of design and technology with the home furnishing expertise of the latter – and drawing on Little Sun co-founder and artist Olafur Eliasson’s vision to make solar energy tangible by way of art and science. Many people don’t have a real feeling or understanding for the possibilities to implement it at a medium level yet, where it can make a tangible difference in their daily life”, says Philipp Käfer, designer for Little Sun. “I think the massive solar panels and tiny solar lamps are the most common approaches to solar energy. Like in tiny solar lamps decorating a garden, or a solar powered calculator set up for a math test. But solar power also tends to dot many daily lives in small ways. The latter calls to mind massive solar panels on roofs or industrial fields that feed directly into the grid. Energy that humanity has also harnessed in the past few thousand years – from the once simple ways of concentrating sunrays for starting fires, to the complex systems that convert sunlight into a fast-growing renewable energy source today. About one hundred and fifty million kilometres away, the hot, glowing ball of hydrogen and helium known as the sun radiates energy vital to most life on our home planet.
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