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Alice Min Soo Chun
Alice Min Soo Chun (born 1975) is the founder and CEO of Solight Design and the inventor of the SolarPuff. Early life Born in South Korea in 1975, to an architect father and painter mother. Chun and her parents moved to the United States in 1978, settling in Syracuse, New York. As a teen Chun and her parents moved back to South Korea, but Chun wished to study and learn in the United States. Chun later returned to the US to study at and later graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. Work Chun became a professor of architectural design and material technology at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. Chun focused her work on solar energy and ways to bring solar energy into everyday living, beginning to prototype an inflatable solar light in 2008. In 2010, following the Haiti earthquake, Chun challenged her class of design students to create a solar light solution that could be used immediately in disaster relief situations. In 2011, Chun designed the SolarPuff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solight Design
Solight Design is an American company that manufactures portable solar lanterns intended to provide lighting in disaster areas and to people who otherwise have no access to electricity. It was co-founded by architecture professor Alice Min Soo Chun. She designed the company's signature product, the SolarPuff lantern, which is based on an earlier product created by Chun and some of her students at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. Products Solight Design offers portable, cube-shaped, water-resistant solar lanterns that fold flat when not in use. The high-end version is the SolarPuff solar lantern, while the more economical version is the SolarHelix solar lantern. Each lantern includes a solar panel, a rechargeable lithium polymer battery, and 10 LEDs. Exposing the solar panel to bright sunlight for about 8 hours charges the battery. A button on the lantern switches between off, low, high and blin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
