Addressing the design and innovation, designer Léa Longis has created the Hélio DAB Radio which uses colorful solar Grätzel panels that are transparent and add a brilliant creativity to the interior.
The Grätzel solar panels get their color from vegetal ink, upping the green quotient. The LED panel and Speakers compliment the radio and are in sync with the form. The source of this revolution is EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), where Professor Michael Graetzel, inspired by plant photosynthesis, began to use molecules from colorants to transform the sun’s light into electricity. Photography by Véronique Hughe.
