Phone battery running low? Light a candle!
The Argentine designer Francisco Gomez Paz has designed a light wind which, without power from the wall outlet, charges a phone. Named as the Candela, the cordless lamp was showed off at this year’s Milan design week.
The Candela lamp is the first product of the new Danish-Italian lighting brand Astep. The candle makes its own electricity by means of a flame on bioethanol.
The environmentally friendly fuel ensures a smoke and odourless flame, which supplies energy to power LED lights on and to charge a phone through a USB port. The electricity is stored in the bulb, so charging can also happen if the lamp is off.
“Candela is really something new and is also putting together the traditional and the future,because typologically it’s a lantern, an oil lamp, something that you move, that you bring around, but with 21st-century technology – because the magic is that the heat of the flame is transformed into electricity,” said Astep founder Alessandro Sarfatti.
“Of course I built the company to make money, but it’s not the only driver for sure, there are other things, there is an eagerness to try to make a step forward. “
The lamp can be used both indoors and outdoors. It is 18.6 centimetres in diameter and 24.1 centimetres tall in total.
Danish-Italian lamp brand ASTEP looks for Candela potential for use in cafés, restaurants, waiting rooms and homes. The company’s business is based in Denmark but its products will be made in Italy. Sarfatti is from Milan but now lives in Copenhagen.
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