It's not a lamp and it's not a window, it's a completely new sort of product.
Solros is essentially a sunshine distribution system, where you put a
mirror dish on the roof and use fiber-optic cables to lead in sunshine
into any dark rooms of your building.
If you're underground, for instance, or if you're deep within buildings, you can
install a Solros System and you can get the sunlight without the heat.
Most people prefer sunlight to artificial light, sunlight prevents depression,
sunlight makes us feel better, it makes us more productive, and yet, ninety
percent of our day are spent indoors, in electric light; this electric light or as
we like to call it fake light, makes up for twenty percent of the global
electricity consumption; using real light instead, we save money and lead a
healthier more sustainable lifestyle.
Solros means sunflower in Swedish, and like our system, it follows the Sun. I am
Jon Ramstedt, Founder and Engineer at Solros. I worked with sunlight since
2011, and we wanted to make a system that was affordable, easy to use, and robust; we
wanted to make the sunshine available to everyone. The sunshine is very natural
product, so the experience should be physical without taking too much space;
I'm working on designing the Solros System Dish and the Solros Box, I'm
doing it in very traditional Scandinavian way, in order to fit the
most environments; we are aiming to sell Internationally, so we have to think of
many different home interiors; we also want to design a product which is
affordable, but has great quality in all details and finishes.
The Solros System is really easy to install, all you have to do is mount the
system where you have Sun, put the cables inside the room where you want the lights
and turn it on, and then it will automatically find the Sun and you will
get sunlight in your room.
Every day, the World is becoming more crowded, look at
the streets of dense cities where the Sun is being blocked out by all the
surrounding tall buildings, this is where Solros could make a real difference
by bringing real light to where the Sun doesn't reach, Solros will make a lot of
rooms better suited for both life and work. With Kickstarter, we can go global
straight away, we want to be able to try it out everywhere around the world at
the same time, in order to make it even better experience further on.
We have this fantastic source of light already, which is the Sun, we just need to
harvest it and use it properly.
Hi there, I'm Dr.Diva Tommei, and as many of you know I'm the CEO of Solenica and
Inventor of Caia, the natural lighting robot. Caia first premiered on Indiegogo
this past September and ever since we've been offering her on Indiegogo, in demand
as a pre-order; over the past several months Caia has evolved past even what I
could have dreamed, we have changed her name, for those of you who remember Lucy,
and have significantly improved her design, to the point that today we call
the final version Caia 2.0; we are now in the process of getting Caia manufactured
and the entire Solenica team is absolutely thrilled that we'll be able
to start shipping soon to our backers, in just a few short months, but now let me
tell you a little bit more about what she does:
using Caia couldn't be easier, just place in a sunny spot, point her towards the
room you want to illuminate, and turn her on, she'll find the Sun all in her own
and redirect its light into your home or office;
Caia is solar-powered, so you never have to worry if she's charged, and she
continuously monitors the movement of the Sun throughout the day and remembers
where you want to send the sunlight, so you have natural light indoors all day
long; if you have a dark or gloomy room in your home or office
then Caia is for you. With more than half a million dollars raised to date on
Indiegogo, it's been a truly life-changing experience to see the
amount of support for Caia around the World; as an organization, we here at
Solenica believe in the importance of upgrading our indoor spaces into places
in which we don't only live but we thrive. We won't be on Indiegogo forever,
so I strongly encourage you to take advantage of our limited pre-order
offers on Indiegogo and as always have a bright day.