**BioLite: A Pioneer in Off-Grid Energy Solutions**

We recently had the opportunity to visit BioLite's New York office and learn about their innovative products that are revolutionizing the way we think about energy independence. The company is known for its cutting-edge solutions in cooking, charging, and lighting, all designed to help people connect with nature and live off the grid.

One of the first products we were introduced to was a solar panel generator that can charge devices like smartphones and laptops on the go. This compact device is perfect for camping trips or power outages at home. The company's engineers have optimized its design to make it run efficiently, even in low fan settings, which will keep your device charged for over 24 hours. On the other hand, when set to max fan mode, the solar panel can charge devices for over five hours.

We were also impressed by BioLite's smart lighting solutions, particularly their latest launch, a unique headlamp that redefines the traditional headlamp design. This slim and compact lantern is made from soft goods, allowing it to be worn comfortably on your head without any bulk. The electronics are integrated seamlessly into the fabric, making it incredibly lightweight and portable. We were able to turn it on and off effortlessly, thanks to its ergonomic design.

One of the standout features of this headlamp is its ability to adjust brightness levels with ease. With 330 lumens of output, it's perfect for brightening up dark spaces without being too overwhelming. The company has also incorporated a red light mode, which can be useful when you need to conserve energy but still want to see what's around you.

**The Sunlight Lantern: A Compact and Portable Power Solution**

Another product that caught our attention was the Sunlight lantern, a compact and portable device that can provide ambient lighting in various settings. Its unique design allows it to be set up on a table or hung from a tent, making it perfect for camping trips or outdoor events.

One of the most exciting features of this lantern is its ability to adjust color modes, including white, yellow, red, and more. This makes it a great conversation starter, especially when used in a party setting with friends. The company has also incorporated a convenient solar panel into the device's design, which can be charged during the day and provide power for up to 20 hours on low settings.

The Sunlight lantern also features a sundial-like stand that helps you align it perfectly with the sun's rays, ensuring optimal charging. This clever design makes it easy to recharge your lantern without needing any external power sources.

**Availability and Pricing**

All of BioLite's innovative products can be found on their official website at energy.com. Additionally, they are available through various retailers such as REI, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shop, and Amazon. The company is committed to making its products accessible to everyone, regardless of budget or lifestyle.

When it comes to pricing, BioLite offers a range of options to suit different needs and budgets. For example, the solar panel generator mentioned earlier is available for $1.99, while the headlamp and Sunlight lantern have more premium price tags, ranging from $70 to $100.

Overall, BioLite's commitment to innovation and sustainability has made them a leader in the off-grid energy solutions market. Their products are not only functional but also stylish and compact, making them perfect for anyone looking to disconnect from the grid and connect with nature.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe've got Ryan from violight um Greg gave us another you know quick little intro but if you want to just get into your mission as a company and why you're here why you make the products that you do yeah sure thank you so I'm Ryan I'm the engineering Directorate violet and at BioLite we make personal scale off-grid energy products and we make those products for two different markets that we serve one is an outdoor recreation market so we make products for backpackers campers people that are in disaster preparedness situations and then we have another side of the business that focuses on those focuses on emerging markets so people are off grid because they lived there primarily the customers we serve or off-grid in rural parts of sub-saharan Africa and so we we try to focus on something we call parallel innovation which is to take core technologies and core product features and apply them to both sides of that business that we find a lot of the problems you're trying to solve or a lot of the use cases that you find are very similar whether you're off-grid for recreation or because you live there very boss yeah and you mentioned the mission statement yes um I wanted to get into that a little bit because the company is really focused on the social impact side of our business which is where we focus in emerging markets and we you know we build energy personal scale energy products that span cooking and lighting and charging we have solar products battery storage products so we're solving lots of big problems but sort of the the most acute global problem that we recognize when the founders were put in the company together was the the problem of indoor air pollution and it's an incredible over three billion people still cook on smokey open fires inside their homes and mostly as people are off-grid in emerging markets areas and the people breathe this harmful smoke it's got carbon monoxide it's got particulate matter and so over four million people die every year from from indoor air pollution and so our founders came up with a really ingenious design for a wood-burning stove that's able to take some of the waste heat in the cooking process and turn that into electricity which is great you can use the electricity for lighting you can use it to charge mobile phones which is something that lots of folks in emerging markets are starting to have access to but also and importantly you can use some of that energy to power a fan and the fan can bring the oxygen that the fire needs to burn completely and efficiently so you can really reduce all that smoke our stoves can reduce smoke by 90% which completely changes the the health impact incident and is that we you yeah so we've actually this is a product that abroad I guess I'll pick it up your cool it's a little big and it may block my view a little bit but this is the fire pit and this is one of our our newest products in our recreation space and it's basically a scaled up version of the stove that I just described to you okay in this product you're able to have like a full scale social gathering fire pit you can also do cooking with it so it's a really great sort of multi functional piece of kit and it's a real workhorse we take it every year the company does a big camping trip up at Lake George now we bring the whole company and we camp out for several days and we do all of our social fire pit gathering around this product we also do all of our cooking on the product and it was designed again with that forced air injection so that you can get oxygen into the parts of the fire that need it to burn really smoke free and it's great after a week of camping with this thing you normally come home after camping and you've got your sleeping bag and all your clothes smell like smoke you don't get that with this product it's really great it makes for a really enjoyable you take me through this times only because I so can you take me through the steps of like you're going camping you pack it you get there you unpack your stuff what do you do yeah so it'll burn the same cord wood that you normally would burn in the ring fire pit at your campsite and the other thing that the air injection gets for you is a little bit of improvement in terms of the starting sometimes that's the hardest part about a fire is getting the kindling going and starting the process if you bring a little bit of air into the beginning of that it makes it a lot easier and the fire pits not just for camping it's just as well suited for sitting in your backyard a lot of people now have fire pits either gas or wood burning fire pits in their backyard and it's it's great for that as well it's great for tailgating we've taken it to the beach or for just the day at the beach and as I said before it's also a cooking device so there's a grill grate that sits on the top here and you can you use wood and burn that wood down until you have wood char to cook over or you can use charcoal just like you would in your normal weber charcoal grill yeah the legs fold up I won't show you cuz you got a small table here but the legs fold up and if you go to our website there's also an available carrying cover case oh nice which does two functions one it's a great rain cover for the product product comes with its own rain cover but it's a advanced version of that rain cover that has a solar panel built-in and so that's a great way if you're using this in your backyard or for a long camping trip it's a great way to keep this power pack recharged and fresh and the power pack not only powers the fan but it's also an energy storage bank so if you have other devices that you need to charge off-grid there's 40 watt hours of storage which is a ton of storage it's like 10 phone charges this thing will run on the low fan setting for over 24 hours on the max fan setting it will run for over five hours great and what is the price point on that one this is $1.99 thanks yeah what a couple other products yeah yeah if you want to just go through them yeah sure so some of our other newer products as I said before the company builds products in sort of three categories cooking charging and lighting and so we've got the cooking side we just talked about charging we've got an array of solar panels that are generators to generate the electricity and then on the lighting side is how we efficiently use that electricity so when you're off-grid lighting is a sort of core necessity right and so I brought two products here one is our latest launch which is something I'm really excited about man yeah you can definitely try it okay and the back is where the battery pack is and that's actually yeah so literally just like this okay I'm not sure I look right now in this outfit but I think it's pretty sweet so what we did we've taken sort of a unique approach to the headlamp we look at headlamps today when you go to the store to buy one and they're all basically the same it's a big clunky brick that's cantilever it off of a an elastic band and we thought that's there's got to be a better way right electronics are getting better LEDs are getting better battery technology is getting more dense so how can we pack full brightness drove off because this kind of annoying spotlight a floodlight uh and a red light for nice like when you have to go to the bathroom ins but you just saw the white light is is extremely bright there's 330 lumens yeah which is a really tiny form factor on the front of your head like and what we've done is integrated the electronics and the plastics right into the fabric and the soft goods so it's a very slim compact very comfortable headlamp and we've balanced the weight between the the lamp portion and the battery portion on the front and back of your head to give you a really comfortable yeah it is it's really comfortable it doesn't feel like I'm wearing anything at all I thought it would be a little heavy but you don't feel it at all so just don't press that button um super cool and then we have we have one more oh sure this isn't light real quick so I just want to show you packaging there's these are two colors the the grey and the teal there's also a yellow and a red one you can see all those on the website and then this thing that's been kind of going in party mode in the background actually yeah that's great yeah we call this little guy the sunlight and this is a really exciting compact product it's a lantern that can be set to you you know white ambient light so you can just set it on the table and use it it's got a hanger for the night time if you want to put it in your tent and the one time I did go camping I did use that in a tent and it's very useful and it's such a compact little form factor you can turn this off and shove it into any of your pockets or little pouches on your backpack and then we saw there's some other color modes as well and you can select a color that you like or you can go all the way into this color fading party mode and that's something that's kind of cool to do we just had a bunch of people carve their Halloween pumpkins their jack-o'-lanterns and put this in party mode and then stick it inside rather than the rather than a candle it were very cool but it's just a lot of fun yeah that one's really that's great these are all really cool yeah and we call it the Sun light because it's got a solar panel built right in oh so this has got battery storage inside you can charge it before your trip and it'll run for I believe 20 hours on the lowest setting and then if it runs down you just use the solar panel to get it charged back up and it's got this convenient little stand with something we call the sundial here which helps you align it perfectly to the Sun and then you get it nice and recharged and can use it that night perfect yeah well so do you wanna you wanna tell our viewers where they can find all these great products yeah definitely I mean the quickest places BioLite energy.com that's our website we're available through REI Cabela's Bass Pro Shop as well if you want to go look at things in person and I think you could find us on Amazon for a lot of the products as well great well thank you so much for joining us thanks for coming to visit our New York office and showing us all these cool thingswe've got Ryan from violight um Greg gave us another you know quick little intro but if you want to just get into your mission as a company and why you're here why you make the products that you do yeah sure thank you so I'm Ryan I'm the engineering Directorate violet and at BioLite we make personal scale off-grid energy products and we make those products for two different markets that we serve one is an outdoor recreation market so we make products for backpackers campers people that are in disaster preparedness situations and then we have another side of the business that focuses on those focuses on emerging markets so people are off grid because they lived there primarily the customers we serve or off-grid in rural parts of sub-saharan Africa and so we we try to focus on something we call parallel innovation which is to take core technologies and core product features and apply them to both sides of that business that we find a lot of the problems you're trying to solve or a lot of the use cases that you find are very similar whether you're off-grid for recreation or because you live there very boss yeah and you mentioned the mission statement yes um I wanted to get into that a little bit because the company is really focused on the social impact side of our business which is where we focus in emerging markets and we you know we build energy personal scale energy products that span cooking and lighting and charging we have solar products battery storage products so we're solving lots of big problems but sort of the the most acute global problem that we recognize when the founders were put in the company together was the the problem of indoor air pollution and it's an incredible over three billion people still cook on smokey open fires inside their homes and mostly as people are off-grid in emerging markets areas and the people breathe this harmful smoke it's got carbon monoxide it's got particulate matter and so over four million people die every year from from indoor air pollution and so our founders came up with a really ingenious design for a wood-burning stove that's able to take some of the waste heat in the cooking process and turn that into electricity which is great you can use the electricity for lighting you can use it to charge mobile phones which is something that lots of folks in emerging markets are starting to have access to but also and importantly you can use some of that energy to power a fan and the fan can bring the oxygen that the fire needs to burn completely and efficiently so you can really reduce all that smoke our stoves can reduce smoke by 90% which completely changes the the health impact incident and is that we you yeah so we've actually this is a product that abroad I guess I'll pick it up your cool it's a little big and it may block my view a little bit but this is the fire pit and this is one of our our newest products in our recreation space and it's basically a scaled up version of the stove that I just described to you okay in this product you're able to have like a full scale social gathering fire pit you can also do cooking with it so it's a really great sort of multi functional piece of kit and it's a real workhorse we take it every year the company does a big camping trip up at Lake George now we bring the whole company and we camp out for several days and we do all of our social fire pit gathering around this product we also do all of our cooking on the product and it was designed again with that forced air injection so that you can get oxygen into the parts of the fire that need it to burn really smoke free and it's great after a week of camping with this thing you normally come home after camping and you've got your sleeping bag and all your clothes smell like smoke you don't get that with this product it's really great it makes for a really enjoyable you take me through this times only because I so can you take me through the steps of like you're going camping you pack it you get there you unpack your stuff what do you do yeah so it'll burn the same cord wood that you normally would burn in the ring fire pit at your campsite and the other thing that the air injection gets for you is a little bit of improvement in terms of the starting sometimes that's the hardest part about a fire is getting the kindling going and starting the process if you bring a little bit of air into the beginning of that it makes it a lot easier and the fire pits not just for camping it's just as well suited for sitting in your backyard a lot of people now have fire pits either gas or wood burning fire pits in their backyard and it's it's great for that as well it's great for tailgating we've taken it to the beach or for just the day at the beach and as I said before it's also a cooking device so there's a grill grate that sits on the top here and you can you use wood and burn that wood down until you have wood char to cook over or you can use charcoal just like you would in your normal weber charcoal grill yeah the legs fold up I won't show you cuz you got a small table here but the legs fold up and if you go to our website there's also an available carrying cover case oh nice which does two functions one it's a great rain cover for the product product comes with its own rain cover but it's a advanced version of that rain cover that has a solar panel built-in and so that's a great way if you're using this in your backyard or for a long camping trip it's a great way to keep this power pack recharged and fresh and the power pack not only powers the fan but it's also an energy storage bank so if you have other devices that you need to charge off-grid there's 40 watt hours of storage which is a ton of storage it's like 10 phone charges this thing will run on the low fan setting for over 24 hours on the max fan setting it will run for over five hours great and what is the price point on that one this is $1.99 thanks yeah what a couple other products yeah yeah if you want to just go through them yeah sure so some of our other newer products as I said before the company builds products in sort of three categories cooking charging and lighting and so we've got the cooking side we just talked about charging we've got an array of solar panels that are generators to generate the electricity and then on the lighting side is how we efficiently use that electricity so when you're off-grid lighting is a sort of core necessity right and so I brought two products here one is our latest launch which is something I'm really excited about man yeah you can definitely try it okay and the back is where the battery pack is and that's actually yeah so literally just like this okay I'm not sure I look right now in this outfit but I think it's pretty sweet so what we did we've taken sort of a unique approach to the headlamp we look at headlamps today when you go to the store to buy one and they're all basically the same it's a big clunky brick that's cantilever it off of a an elastic band and we thought that's there's got to be a better way right electronics are getting better LEDs are getting better battery technology is getting more dense so how can we pack full brightness drove off because this kind of annoying spotlight a floodlight uh and a red light for nice like when you have to go to the bathroom ins but you just saw the white light is is extremely bright there's 330 lumens yeah which is a really tiny form factor on the front of your head like and what we've done is integrated the electronics and the plastics right into the fabric and the soft goods so it's a very slim compact very comfortable headlamp and we've balanced the weight between the the lamp portion and the battery portion on the front and back of your head to give you a really comfortable yeah it is it's really comfortable it doesn't feel like I'm wearing anything at all I thought it would be a little heavy but you don't feel it at all so just don't press that button um super cool and then we have we have one more oh sure this isn't light real quick so I just want to show you packaging there's these are two colors the the grey and the teal there's also a yellow and a red one you can see all those on the website and then this thing that's been kind of going in party mode in the background actually yeah that's great yeah we call this little guy the sunlight and this is a really exciting compact product it's a lantern that can be set to you you know white ambient light so you can just set it on the table and use it it's got a hanger for the night time if you want to put it in your tent and the one time I did go camping I did use that in a tent and it's very useful and it's such a compact little form factor you can turn this off and shove it into any of your pockets or little pouches on your backpack and then we saw there's some other color modes as well and you can select a color that you like or you can go all the way into this color fading party mode and that's something that's kind of cool to do we just had a bunch of people carve their Halloween pumpkins their jack-o'-lanterns and put this in party mode and then stick it inside rather than the rather than a candle it were very cool but it's just a lot of fun yeah that one's really that's great these are all really cool yeah and we call it the Sun light because it's got a solar panel built right in oh so this has got battery storage inside you can charge it before your trip and it'll run for I believe 20 hours on the lowest setting and then if it runs down you just use the solar panel to get it charged back up and it's got this convenient little stand with something we call the sundial here which helps you align it perfectly to the Sun and then you get it nice and recharged and can use it that night perfect yeah well so do you wanna you wanna tell our viewers where they can find all these great products yeah definitely I mean the quickest places BioLite energy.com that's our website we're available through REI Cabela's Bass Pro Shop as well if you want to go look at things in person and I think you could find us on Amazon for a lot of the products as well great well thank you so much for joining us thanks for coming to visit our New York office and showing us all these cool things\n"