Green Daily

To help you harness the power of the sun cheaply this summer, Ikea will be rolling out a lineup of kitschy outdoor lighting products -- complete with solar panels and rechargeable batteries -- to add a little mood/safety lighting to your backyard gardenscape. While Ikea has yet to start selling cheap flat-pack DIY rooftop solar arrays, they seem to be wholeheartedly embracing off-the-grid outdoor lighting. Though they're not on sale yet, you can check out the products online here.

One of the coolest features of Ikea's solar collection -- aside from the fact that some of them look like lightsabers -- is that they allow you to move away from wires and plugs, replacing old incadescents with low-energy LEDS that last four times longer. I like using solar powered LEDs for lighting outdoor pathways, because there are no wires to deal with and you can rearrange them whenever you want with a low hassle factor. Unfortunately, some of Ikea's setups will have wires connecting your domes or lightsabers to a central panel. Still, they look cool and perhaps more importantly: they're cheap.

[via Inhabitat]