In the second installment of our story about a new product collaboration between PopTech, Timbuk2 Designs, and the Portable Light Project, Timbuk2's Kevin McSpadden talks about transforming the company's typical messenger bag into a portable solar-powered light source.
When Andrew Zolli, executive director and curator of PopTech, and I were talking about ideas for the PopTech community and Timbuk2, a light went off. What if Timbuk2 partnered with Sheila Kennedy of the Portable Light Project to create a bag to serve both a first world and developing market need--a portable, clean, and renewable energy source? It made so much sense--Portable Light Project makes portable lights and we make portable bags.
Thus, the Flap--Flexible Light and Power--project was born.
So, what’s all the Flap about? Every day in most of the world, we flick a switch, and voila--light. We take light for granted in our everyday lives but much...
When Andrew Zolli, executive director and curator of PopTech, and I were talking about ideas for the PopTech community and Timbuk2, a light went off. What if Timbuk2 partnered with Sheila Kennedy of the Portable Light Project to create a bag to serve both a first world and developing market need--a portable, clean, and renewable energy source? It made so much sense--Portable Light Project makes portable lights and we make portable bags.
Thus, the Flap--Flexible Light and Power--project was born.
So, what’s all the Flap about? Every day in most of the world, we flick a switch, and voila--light. We take light for granted in our everyday lives but much...
- 10/2/2009
- by Kevin McSpadden
- Fast Company
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