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This website aims to focus strictly on the broad subject of solar power for homes. That means that, up to now, we have not generally covered the more niche areas within the subject of solar power for homes. However, every so often, a breakthrough occurs in an area that is just so fantastic that we feel we simply have to bring it to your attention. That is the case with a recent innovation in the field of solar power lights.

Now solar power lights are not a new thing, but a young man has just invented a revolutionary new design for solar power lights that will blow you away!

Imagine post-it-notes that you stick on your window during the day? At night, they become fully charged up solar power lights producing ambient light for any room you choose! How cool is that?

These environmentally friendly solar power lights are called “sticky lamps”. They are as thin as a magazine cover, and they are the brainchild of a young toy designer called Keikko Lee, 26, from Hong Kong. The design for the solar power lights has recently won the Gold Prize in South Korea’s first International Design Competition.

The solar power lights stick, like post-it-notes, to pretty much anything. So it makes sense to attach them to a south facing window in the day for solar charging. They complement your solar power for homes facilities and you can then put them just about anywhere you might want ambient lighting at night time. No extra electricity is needed to run them.

The solar power lights have electroluminescent material on one side, and solar panels on the other. Similar thin-film solar panel technology is already being used quite widely in the installation of solar power for homes. These unique solar power lights will run entirely from solar power.

Using the biomimetic gecko stickiness that many designers are talking about these days, the mass production of these solar power lights would cut down on many of the raw materials traditionally connected with light bulbs. Because the lamp so very thin and light it would not need complicated manufacturing procedures and thereby it would save on raw materials.

So, not only is the product itself ecological, but the manufacturing process would be ecological too. In other words, like solar power for homes, these solar power lights would actually improve our environment. (We like that!)

In this age, when thin-film solar products are spreading like wildfire (from backpacks to clothes) solar power lights that work like post-it-notes simply make sense.

Already there is full funding for solar power lights in the form of ‘solar trees’. (They look like trees. They follow the sun around all day like trees, but by lighting up at night? … Well they are solar trees, right?)

So, it follows that surely solar power lights that act like luminescent post-it-notes could catch on too. What a great addition to any solar power for homes installation!

In our opinion, all in all, the future for this invention looks … well, if you’ll excuse the pun, it looks very bright indeed!

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

 

 

PS. I have an idea! Why not let’s cheer it on so some entrepreneur can give these revolutionary new solar power lights the financing they deserves, and thereby take the ‘sticky lamp’ into full production soon?

You, (yes YOU!) can play a part in this. Simply bookmark this page in your favourite social bookmarking site like Digg or Reddit or technorati. At the bottom left of this article you will find a facility that allows you to do this with just one click. Sending this page as a bookmark on to all your friends will surely make a huge difference. If financiers see how many people are talking about this, then they will see that the idea behind these solar power lights will take off. Investment will surely soon follow.

So, go solar power for homes! Go solar power lights! … and … Go Sticker Lamps!

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Info and Pic via: The South China Morning Post and Treehugger.com
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