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...years ago Bent formed SunNight Solar to manufacture and distribute inexpensive solar-powered flashlights. His BOGO (for "Buy One, Give One"; buy one in the U.S., and SunNight sends one to Africa) lights were a perfect fit for sun-rich Africa, providing five hours of illumination - with energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) - after a 10-hour charge. Bent designed the flashlights himself - even making one model in pink, to discourage men from seizing the products from women. (They wouldn't want to be seen with the feminine-looking lights.) But he ran into a problem: unlike kerosene lamps, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many People Does It Take to Make a New Light Bulb? | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

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