Inspired Design
The word origami comes from Japanese words "ori" meaning fold and "kami" meaning paper
Arts & Architecture
As a little girl growing up in Korea, inventor and CEO Alice Chun spent many days learning how a simple fold can be structure. Origami forms were taught to her by her mother, who also taught her how to sew her own clothes. Inspired by fabric and the trend in material technology for smarter, lighter and faster materials, she started to sew solar panels to fabric as early experiments for harnessing solar energy. While teaching as a professor in architecture and material technology at Columbia University, she created an early prototype that was inflatable with a mouth nozzle, but rejected that design because she didn't want the risk of diseases like cholera, Zika, or Ebola spreading in regions where sanitation was an issue. The design inspired by the origami balloon eliminated the need for a mouth nozzle and simplified the flat pack and self inflation for ease of use.
World's Only Self-Inflating Solar Light
The origami folding design allows for the flat-pack and easy pop open feature which naturally intakes air with a simple pull of the built-in handles. It can transform a flat polygon into a cube or pyramid of light in seconds.
Lightest Solar Lantern on the Market
The SolarPuff is less than 75g making it the lightest solar lantern on the market. Great for kids, the great outdoors, travelling or just lounging around at home or in the garden.
High-Tech Fabric Engineered for Extreme Weather
The special material used for our lanterns are designed with UV protection and is recyclable. The weave in the SolarPuff fabric creates an amazing spectrum of light patterns. Our products are strong enough to keep the rigid form of the cube but soft enough to fold flat.
Waterproof and Floats
All of our products have a special seal around the solar panel and circuit to make it dustproof and waterproof. Our lights are ANSI FL1 Standard IPX7 certified, which means that they are waterproof, or can be temporarily submerged in 1 metre for 30 minutes.
No Batteries Required
Our lights operate without batteries. When fully solar charged, each lantern provides up to 12 hours of illumination. We recommend at least 1-hour charge for 1-hour use.
