This thing looks great! Solar-powered lamps are often pretty corny-looking, and the ones for outdoors are all so plasticky. The Sun Jar is basically just a couple low-power LEDs in a jar, attached to a solar charger, but it looks great. I always wanted to capture the sun in a jar. Have a couple of these around for emergencies or just for mood lighting.
At £20 or ~$33, they fall under the “pricey but not outrageous objet” category. I’d buy one if I didn’t have to pay for international shipping, but you Brits out there should definitely pick one up. Lots more info here, and you can order one too.
[via The Daily What]
http://www.thinkgeek.com has them at a pretty reasonable price, if you want to avoid international shipping.
Ahhh, I didn’t know. Thanks.
It’s really cool … But didn’t understand that how those tiny LED’s will get charge without attaching anything?
All very nice but we “brits” (and I use the term loosely because I’m actually a kiwi), don’t see much of the sun over here. Still, I will buy one so I can at least say I have one and show it off.
I ordered one from a local webstore (http://details-dershop.de/) after I saw your post and it got here today. Can’t wait for tonight to see if it actually works…
It says on the Lifehacker website that the $44 is the cost to make all four! So they are a lot cheaper at $11 each!!
Sorry that was supposed to be posted on the make your own sun jar thread!