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A History of the World in 100 Objects - Solar-powered lamp and charger

Hardware — A look at how solar-powered lamps change our world

HardwareWeak defense · cost & scale (weak)hardware-salesest. 2016

● Verified live

Verdict from HTTP liveness real

last probed Aug 26, 2026

Pulse 40.0 · 1/4

40.0

Pulse Index

1/4 families · real

0.0

30-day Δ

pulse momentum · real

HTTP probes

liveness history · real

Functional tags

observed attributes · real

Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real

17 probes · Jun 16, 2026 → Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only

Liveness probereal

alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 1586 ms

Developer tractionchecked · none

No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.

Press & sentimentchecked · none

No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.

Web footprintreal

resolved host
bbc.co.ukedge
direct originserver
BBC-GTMTranco rank
unranked

Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

A History of the World in 100 Objects - Solar-powered lamp and charger's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity

Company	Basis	Overlap	Pulse	30d Δ	Status
PBspoonhardware	similar	100%	30.4	+22.4	● live
Ring Clockhardware	similar	100%	40.0	0.0	● live
Mi Band 2hardware	similar	100%	8.0	0.0	— unverified
Xiaomi Redmi 4hardware	similar	100%	40.0	0.0	● live
"Full Metal Jacket" Customized Jeephardware	similar	100%	16.0	0.0	→ redirected
Pluggy Lockhardware	similar	100%	8.0	0.0	— unverified
Spinnhardware	similar	100%	44.3	0.0	● live
Hippo Rollerhardware	similar	100%	40.7	0.0	● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes

Business modelhardware-sales

Liveness tierquiet

Competitive alternativesnone linked

Open sourceNo

Public APINo

Free tierNo

Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes

PROBED	HTTP	ORIGIN → RESOLVED	SERVER	MS	VERDICT
2026-08-26 12:05Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	906	alive
2026-08-18 13:14Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1115	alive
2026-08-11 00:10Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1349	alive
2026-08-08 06:01Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1617	alive
2026-08-05 18:22Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1597	alive
2026-07-30 17:36Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	970	alive
2026-07-18 15:31Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	952	alive
2026-07-16 09:41Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	3844	alive
2026-07-10 10:30Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	2730	alive
2026-07-04 09:20Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1465	alive
2026-06-23 13:39Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1283	alive
2026-06-21 21:56Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1081	alive
2026-06-20 20:04Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1381	alive
2026-06-19 15:18Z	200	bbc.co.uk	BBC-GTM	1911	alive

Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.

Launch Sentinel tear sheet · A History of the World in 100 Objects - Solar-powered lamp and charger · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-objects-solar-powered-lamp-and-charger · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.