The Berlin-based, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson launched Little Sun’s first Kickstarter campaign last month to raise €50,000 to start making its next product for rural Africa: a solar-powered mobile phone charger.
The Little Sun Charger is the result of customer feedback and two years of research and development.
“Every time we were in sub-Saharan Africa, people would say the Little Sun [a lamp] is amazing but a mobile phone charger would be much better,” Eliasson told us. As we went to press the campaign had raised over €200,000.
Eliasson founded Little Sun with the engineer Frederik Ottesen in 2012.