KDKA Reviews SolPals MoonBeams with Dr. Frank Viggiano

KDKA reviews SolPals MoonBeams (solar-powered night lights) with Dr. Frank Viggiano.

SolPals Wins Mom's Choice Award

SolPals, Solar Powerd Nightlights MoonBeams have just WON the Mom's Choice Award under the Gear & Accessories Safety category. The Mom's Choice Award (MCA) is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, product and services.

Our product has been chosen by an esteemed panel of judges made up of education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists, and others.

 A sampling of panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, ten-time Emmy-winner, and founder of PBS's Reading Rainbow; Julie Aigener-Clark, creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project; Jodee Blanco, New York Times best-selling author; Priscilla Dunstan, creator of the Dunstun Baby Language; Patricia Rossi, host of NBC's Manners Minute; Dr. Letitia S. Wright, D.C., host of the Wright Place TV Show; and Catherin Whitcher, M.Ed., special needs expert and founder of Precision Education, Inc.

On June 11th 2012 SolPals, LLC  a Salt Lake City, Utah based company was notified by Creative Child that their product line MoonBeams Solar Nightlights had won a 2012 Kids Product of the Year Award under the Kids Room Category.  More information will be found in late August on the Creative Child.com website.

Founder and CEO Ron Gustaveson is very excited about the recognition we have recently received on our MoonBeam Solar Nightlight products.  We have some very cool things right around the corner that we will be introducing towards the end of the year.  We look forward to winning several more awards in the future.

http://www.solpals.com/solar-nightlights-solpals-news.htm

Solar Night Lights vs. Electric Nightlights / Power Outlet Nightlights

First, I am the inventor of the SolPals Solar Powered Hybrid Nightlights/Flex Lights.  I have spent the last three years developing these lights.  My a-ha moment was when I noticed my young children are attracted to the nightlights thus the power outlet.  I started to do some research and found several disturbing facts about the Power outlet nightlight.  See below:

1.       7 children per day are treated in the emergency room from electrical outlet accidents and boys are the highest risk.

2.       In and average year, Consumer Product Safety Commission receives about 10 reported incidents where nightlights were cited as being responsible for fires.

3.       80% of all injuries associated with electrical outlets occur in your home.

4.       65% of all electrical outlet injuries are on the hand.

5.       70% of Children under the age of 2 receive burns to their mouths from electrical outlet accidents

6.       Electrical accidents results in an estimated 1,000 deaths per year of which 200 are children.

7.       If 100% of children in the USA used SolPals night light we would save around $150 Million a year in power consumption revenue.

8.       If 100% of children in the USA used eclectic nightlights we would use 1.1 Trillion kWh which would power 107,784 homes each year.

I have been completely oblivious to the potential danger to my children and home.  So, I did a little more digging on the danger and found a US Consumer Product Safety Commission document#5063 which outlines only one immediate danger of the standard power outlet nightlight “the location of the nightlight”.  You can read the article by visiting my website at the following link:

http://www.solpals.com/solar-nightlights-verses-electric-nightlights.htm

In the next year I will provide several informative resources of the dangers of nightlights.  It’s my hope that you will look at our solar powered lights as an alternative solution for your kids lighting / nightlight needs.  And know that our primary objective is to lighten up the night with the power of the sun, because NO child should be left in the dark.

To learn more about our products please visit our website at www.solpals.com we will begin to sell our lights towards the end of first quarter of 2011.