Solar-Powered Wallpaper
by on 12.17.04
Yet another bright idea from the innovative brainiacs at NYU. The Solar Powered Wallpaper
project is smart lighting powered by the sun. By embedding electroluminescent materials into the design pattern of the wall paper and incorporating a built-in light sensor, design students have created a wallcovering that can respond to the lighting requirement of a room, acting as a decorative element when a room is naturally bright, and as a flat wallpaper light when the room requires more light. With power supplied from a solar charged battery, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity. Sustainable, efficient, functional, technologically sexy, and very TreeHugger, the idea was inspired by the sustainable designs of Ross Lovegrove, Julian Lwin, and Droog Design (stay tuned for more on Droog later today). Check it out at NYU Tisch School for the Arts Winter Show, December 19-20 in New York City. ::NYU Winter Show [by MO]
I WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN ABACK BY THIS CONCEPT.IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT WE STARTED LOOKING AT OTHER MATERIALS INSTEAD OF TEARING DOWN THE VERY THINGS WE NEED TO CLEAN OUR AIR.SO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEHIND YOU 100%.
A ripoff of the movie "Rare Birds". The wacky inventor had luminescent wallpaper in his tunnel from his house to his workshop.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0295552/
Glad to see it can really work though. Now someone work on that air car from the Jetsons.