Solar powered furniture production and motion tracking pandas
Trundled down to London Bridge and visited the London Design Museum today for the first time. The main exhibition being the Brit Insurance Design Awards.
Fresh from my home horticulture failures in Valencia I arrived with a notably eco mindset and found myself warming particularly to:
- ANDREA living air purifier which absorbs undesirable effects of contaminated air by circulating air through a device containing a plant known for their effectiveness at cleansing air
- Omelet home bee hive which made me wonder whether the bees living inside them would have design snob mentality with their more rustic cousins
- Aquarium and hydroponic combos that keep both fish and plants happy and reduce the effort in maintaining both – my poor fish would love this!
- Solar powered furniture production that winds fibre around a spindle rotated by solar power. The fibre is dyed and coated in glue on its way to the spindle. The stronger the sunlight the faster the rotation so the paler the thread. The whole dyed and glue encoated spindle dries and hardens to form the final bench, lampshade or whatever.
- Habbits are online humanoid creatures that reflect their owners eco friendliness footprint by distorting different parts of the anatomy depending on their owner’s resource utilisation. My Habbit was rather grotesque the aim being to normalise it based on improving resource utilisation.
I really liked the Design Award winner. Given all the laptop and power adapter lugging around that I do the huge protruding UK plug has always been annoying. With its cunning rotations and interlocks the winning design manages to flatten it into a super thin cool looking device.
On a much lighter note the massive array of model motion-sensing pandas was great. As you move the field of pandas rotate and track you, apart from the odd one that rebelliously seems distracted by something else. Juliet would have loved this one.