• The solar lamp and charger, devices that are helping shape the 21st Century

  • Lamp.jpgNothing’s more important to the 21st century than a solar lamp and a charger accompanying it. Now you might probably be wondering why we’d say this! Shouldn’t it be a mobile phone instead? Or rather, the internet? This cheap, not-so-beautiful device that’s mass produced in China is the 100th item in the BBC Radio 4 series to be unveiled, finding its place in the British Museum. Considered as an object that has helped shaped the world, and the 21st century, the simple solar lamp and the charger was picked up after a lot of thinking and searching for an object that tells the story of the ingenuity and the challenges that shape humanity in the 21st century, according to Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.


    Costing just £6 for the lamp, and £30 if accompanied with the charger, the solar charger and the lamp will, in future, be looked upon as devices that helped change the world for the greener good.
    [telegraph]

    Posted in Topics:Gadgets and Tech, Tags: on October 21, 2010