Warm Your Apartment with a Compact, Candle-Powered Heater

In a matter of weeks, apartment dwellers will be switching off their A/Cs and resuscitating creaky heating systems after months of disuse. But if a whistling steam heater or an overzealous furnace doesn’t sound appealing, there’s another option.

The Egloo is made of terracotta and is roughly hamburger-like in size and appearance. It comes in an array of colors and textures, and using just four small candles, it generates enough heat to warm a 20-square-meter room. On Egloo’s already well-overfunded Indiegogo page, the creator, Marco Zagaria, wrote that he designed the heater to counteract the excess of electricity commonly used to warm domestic spaces.