The Lightie

Lightie

The Lightie

Contact Solution Provider

Michael Suttner
Lightie
Cape Town
South Africa
+27 (074) 799 69 82
lightup@thelightie.com

Solution Overview & Benefits

The Lightie™ is a patent-pending, test-tube shaped solar-powered “light bulb”. It is a Picosolar device, designed to bring affordable lighting to the predominantly impoverished masses worldwide that still use paraffin for their lighting needs.

The Lightie’s innovative design has been crafted to screw onto, and fit flush within the mouth of a standard soda bottle that is 22mm in diameter, thus converting the bottle into a multi-functional and waterproof solar-powered lantern/task light.

Benefits of the Lightie Solar Bottle Light include:

  • State-of-the-art flexible solar panel
  • Built into a durable acrylic housing
  • Utilizes Lithium battery technology
  • 8 hrs in the sun yields 40hrs+ of light (low setting)
  • Will charge under cloudy/rainy conditions
  • Outputs 12x more light than a paraffin lantern
  • Battery will last 4-5 years (2000 CYCLES)
  • Designed to fit all 22mm PET Soda bottle necks. 22mm is the world-wide standard size.

Once in full production, the cost of the Lightie should be around R80 - R90 (USD $6-8) per unit, the equivalent of one hour's worth of paraffin.

History & Development

The Lightie was created by 27 year-old Michael Suttner, of South Africa, whose background includes mechanical engineering and social entrepreneurship.

Availability

Publicly available: yes
Price range (USD): 1 to 20 USD
Available online: yes

Additional Information