Posts Tagged ‘light’

Party in the shower?

November 5th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
Maybe you want to celebrate with Obama (not literally, of course), or retitalise yourself instead of a disco nap before a big night out. Or perhaps, like the ThinkGeek team, you just want to reduce the risks of painful early morning showers, in any case the LED Shower Light might be just what you're after - or never realised you needed but now have to have! The LED Shower Light is a brilliant idea. It installs to a standard shower pipe in mere minutes. When you turn the shower on, the water powers a turbine and the LED Shower Light...well, lights...
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As one door closes… a light bulb grows bright?

March 7th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
To make up for the relative quiet last week (hope you didn't miss us too much!) here's another post to keep you going. Happy weekend! Inhabitat and a free newspaper I found on the bus the other night were keen to discuss the merits of this new green energy Revolving door by Fluxxlab. Image from Techchee Inhabitat praise it as being "an ingenious sustainable energy harvesting idea that makes you wonder why no one else has thought of it before." Sorry to burst the bubbles guys, but somebody did think of it: in 2005 on Halfbakery. But that's not to discount the Fluxxlab...
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2-D lights?

November 28th, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
 
There has been an interesting experiment in lighting that originates from a 2d surface. Designer Jonas Samson has invented duel function wallpaper, which acts traditionally, as wallpaper, but also doubles up as light source. When the wallpaper is turned ‘off’ there is no indication the light is hidden inside. This is certainly a replacement for any mood lighting you have, it’s also space saving and innovative. This wallpaper raises a couple of interesting points and crossovers into the realm of technology. First, is that presumably the wallpaper would be at least partially customisable allowing anyone to design their own light whilst...
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