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This new sustainable lamp uses water to generate light
A Colombian designer has collaborated with renewable energy company E-dina and Wunderman Thompson to build a lamp that generates light using salt water. It could help over 800 million people worldwide with little access to electricity.
3 min readAug 10, 2022
Ever been stuck out in the wilderness without a torch? Phone run out of battery? It’s an inconvenience that can happen to any outdoor enthusiast.
A new sustainable lamp could be the answer to your problems. Created by designer Miguel Mojica in collaboration with E-dina and Wunderman Thompson, this new innovation is called the ‘WaterLight’ lamp and is able to convert seawater into electricity.
Think of it as a cross between a battery charger and a traditional torch, a handy tool to provide energy to those in remote areas or tricky situations. We don’t have access to an electric grid everywhere we go, after all.
