Bright Blinds: the Cube Farmer's Dream
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 11.23.07

All the workers of the world will unite to demand one of these for their cubicles; unlike Kenny's post where the blind generated power, Makoto Hirahara's uses just a bit to power electroluminescent sheets "to simulate a window where none exists."
It works just like a real blind: turn the plastic stick to control the brightness. Clever stuff from GNR8Pipeline, which we are now watching carefully.
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