With such orotund - scale instalment asThe weather project(London , 2004 ) andNew York City Waterfalls(2008 ) , Danish - Icelandic creative person Olafur Eliasson has show he can bend the natural element to his will . And with his latest endeavour , Eliasson is look to harness the power of the Sunday to a more hard-nosed end : excite cell speech sound .
In 2012 , Eliasson launched his planetary solar vigor task Little Sun with the Little Sun Solar Lamp , a solar - powered machine that , according to Eliasson ’s Kickstarter page , has brought light to M of mass around the world , over 670,000 of whom are disconnect from the electrical grid . Now , Eliasson is spearheading a Kickstarter campaign to make Little Sun ’s second product , the Little Sun Charge , a realness .
The Little Sun accusation is a hand-held , solar - powered cubicle speech sound battery charger that well clips to your haversack or wallet to becharm rays while you go about your day-by-day life . Five hours of sunlight is enough to power your phone for the entire solar day — you simply get in touch your gadget with a standard USB cable length .
“ twinkle is for everyone , ” Eliasson writes on his Kickstarter pageboy , “ it determines what we do and how we do it . ” Which is why , with his Little Sun product , Eliasson is attached to bring solar power to off - the - control grid biotic community around the earth . With Little Sun Charge , he and his team have partnered with Ethiopia and 12 other countries across Africa to bring off - control grid communities quality sound chargers .
“ Our actions have consequences for the world , ” Eliasson writes . “ Little Sun is a wedge that opens up the urgent discussion about bringing sustainable vigor to all from the perspective of artistic creation to evoke awareness about energy access and the unequal distribution of get-up-and-go today . ”
Not to mention , the Little Sun burster depend fairly dapper , too ( Eliasson is an artist , after all ) .
