Repelight, from Compact Impact of Japan, is a 26-watt compact fluorescent “bug light” that glows gold but acts green.
With tropical mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile Virus and Dengue Fever on the rise, it makes sense to bolster your backyard bug banishers before the pesky varmints put the bite on you and your family. Now you can do just that while at the same time save bucks – and the environment – with the Repelight CFL (compact fluorescent light) energy efficient bulb.
Finish interior designer Elina Aalto has created a novel window shade that comes in cities, instead of colors!
Whether it’s Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, or Helsinki, the city’s night lights bring day lights into your home in a most delightful way! Aalto’s Better View Blinds reduce harsh light and glare in an artistic pattern that casts interesting shadows into your living areas.
Aalto’s patterns are sequences of square and rectangular cut-outs in her black fabric roll-up window shades. When the fabric is pulled down to shade a window, natural daylight enters through the pattern creating a night time view of a city. This juxtaposition of night upon day is very effective in limiting glare, creating interesting interior shadows, and making a cool, artsy wall design.
Here are some display photos of Better View Blinds in interior design. This first city is “Paris” at night.
Imagine walking into the room of tomorrow… no need to reach for a light switch; the walls are already gently glowing with scenes of an undersea paradise. Hit the remote and one wall transforms into a floor-to-ceiling TV screen or the backdrop to the newest video game.
Sound like a dream? Engineers at Japan’s Toshiba corporation are well on the way to making it reality.
The crux of the biscuit is the wallpaper. Not just ANY wallpaper, of course, this is a specially developed material that utilizes flexible OLED (organic electroluminescence) screen technology to emit light in a controlled manner.
Anything from a featureless glow that serves as room lighting to action-packed movies, TV programs and computer games is possible. Those impressed by the newest flat screen TV wall mounts are sure to do a neck-snapping double take.
Although OLEDs are not new, their low efficiency has been a roadblock to more widespread applications. Toshiba’s answer is nanotechnology.
According to Toshiba spokesman Kaori Hiraki, “The wallpaper uses light that has been redirected by an ultra-fine grating that is fabricated by self-assembled nano particles.” It would seem that the effect might be similar to that of a Fresnel lens like those used in traffic lights, amplifying the intensity without requiring additional energy.
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