GravityLight: Safer and healthier for all; light up without kerosene

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GravityLight is the latest revoluntionary approach of storing energy and creating illumination with it.
The innovation is to help break the poverty cycle as it pays itself off thereby replacing a dependence on kerosene. It is fast gaining usage in many country and is sure to empower children and adults as it gives them a safer and healthier way to study at night.

The video below is just a tips of the iceberg on how it works.

The problem of bringing light to remote parts of the developing world has been tackled in the past with everything from solar-powered lamps to wind-up devices and rechargeable batteries – all of which require relatively expensive kit or physical effort by the user.

But two London-based designers have now developed a light source that operates on the stuff that surrounds you – earth, rocks or sand – with the helping hand of gravity.

Two London designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves developed the device as a way of making it easy to remote developing community to use light with ease and less expense.