Imagine lots of fruits hanging in your backyard, moving softly along with wind and trees. As the sun sets, fruits would start glowing, giving your space a whole new and warm atmosphere for the rest of the night.

This idea of a solar LED lamp came up as a simple solution to exterior and/or interior lighting, taking advantage of the abundant solar energy of lower latitudes; the same energy that gives us and endless summer and an infinite variety of tropical fruits all year long here in Colombia.

The inspiration is obviously the mango, which grows across the countryside and cities of the Caribbean, along with many other tropical fruits.

Two ways of production:

The Totumo is one of those other fruits, a very particular one that goes extremely hard and durable once dried. It grows in a friendly oval shape that resembles a giant mango.

The Totumo has been used for centuries as tableware, for beverage containing, and also by artisans as it can be carved, cut and painted in many ways. This possibility could allow customization and mean more income for less advantaged artisan communities of the region.

For mass production where Totumos do not grow, the same mango shape can be achieved with regular blow molding, using recycled PET from beverage bottles.

Recycled PET plastic also means income for the poor. In many developing nations, recycling and garbage classification is not made by the state or companies, but by informal recyclers who had proven to be able to feed their families and send their children to school, only by selling recyclable material back to the companies; that would be the case with recycled PET bottles in those areas.

These guys are a significant labor and ecologycal force, so their right to work and way of subsistence is starting to get protection by the law in Colombia, and the plastic for \'Mango\' would mean more opportunities for them.

All of this, plus LED technology and flexible solar panels, makes this hangable product very profitable, ecofriendly, social responsible, and a funny choice for lighting our spaces.

Nature synergy:

Friendly Hanging. Trees wont suffer. Mango doesnt need any wiring or nailing.

Exterior lighting tends to attract bugs in tropical nights. Many get trapped in other ovalshaped lamps as they cannot escape the same way they got in. But with this lamp, every bug can escape without harm through the bottom hole, and the LED light wont let them get overtanned!