Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has developed a solar lamp that is designed to be hung in front of windows so it can generate its own energy.
Called Sunne, the light is equipped with photovoltaic cells and an integrated battery, allowing it to harvest and store enough energy throughout the day to light up a room at night.
Sunne is designed to be hung in front of windows
Van Aubel designed the lamp as part of an ongoing project to normalise solar technology by bringing it inside homes.
"To facilitate a shift in our perception towards solar, it also needs to be more accessible to a larger group of people," she told Dezeen.
"People need to be able to familiarise themselves with it and have it in their surroundings. Sunne is a first step to integrating solar energy into our everyday life." The lamp has an anodised aluminium frame
Without the need for a plug or external electricals, the light is reduced to the shape of a simple oblong suspended from two steel wires.
One side, which is designed to be orientated towards a window, incorporates SunPower Solar Cells that Van Aubel developed in collaboration with The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands.
The side that faces the window incorporates solar cells
"It makes much more sense to have solar outside, as there is more sun there. But it is inside that you need lights," she said.
"By moving solar panels from the roof to hanging in your window, you have to focus even more on the process of ha...