
Solight Design Inc. makes solar-powered inflatable lanterns, providing campers and backpackers with hours of continuous light without batteries.
Each lantern is made of recyclable PET sailcloth material to ensure it is lightweight and lasts through extreme weather conditions. To expand, the user pulls the handles and twists. Each light collapses flat because of its origami fold pattern.

The first Solight lantern produced was the SolarPuff™ cube, which provides up to 10 hours of light on its low setting. It takes eight to 10 hours of sunlight to charge or two hours with a USB-C cable. The QWNN™ and the MegaPuff solar lanterns allow campers to clip the lantern to a tree, tent or clothesline during the day to charge and use it to charge their other devices at night.
Originally from Seoul, South Korea, chief product officer and co-founder Alice Min Soo Chun grew up learning the art of origami from her mother. Chun received a master’s degree in architecture before teaching at Columbia University. She began to focus on solar technology and finding ways to create clean energy solutions when her son was diagnosed with asthma.