Everyone needs light. After the sun goes down, you need some kind of artificial illumination to read, to clean up the house, to work. And if you’re off the grid in a developing country, then that ...

A bioreactor is a useful thing to have in any biology lab. Fundamentally, it’s a tank in which biological activity can be nurtured and controlled. [The Thought Emporium] needed a visual aid for an ...

A unique camping lantern has been created by Lumir that uses cooking oil to power the LED lamp rather than other more harmful fuels such as kerosene or similar. On 1 L of cooking oil the LED lamp is ...

Before the widespread adoption of electricity and the dominance of rechargeable lamps and generating sets, the humble kerosene lamp held sway in Nigerian homes, shops and rural communities, lighting ...

In West Africa, where three-quarters of the population lives without electricity, households spend as much as 20 percent of their budget on kerosene, a combustible fuel burned for lighting. Not only ...

When the sun goes down over large swathes of the developing world, the 1.3 billion people currently living without access to an electricity connection are plunged into darkness. According to figures ...

[Shockwaver] stumbled across some old kerosene lanterns, and decided he also stumbled across his next project. He decided to leave the kerosene out, and in its place used some RGB LEDs to bring the ...

Ever since the first caveman scorched his beard trying to chase the darkness away, man has been looking for better ways to light up the night. When the sun goes down, humans want illumination to help ...