Thursday, February 14, 2008

Lightway OLED Shutters Could Mean It's Curtains for Curtains [Lightway]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/234932131/lightway-oled-shutters-could-mean-its-curtains-for-curtains

lightway.jpgLouvered shutters may not be everyone's idea of a great time, but Damian Savio's spangly, light-up version sure is mine. The 23-year-old industrial design student designed them for his final-year show at the University of Western Sydney. Using OLEDs and advance transparent Photovoltaic Nanoscale technology, the Lightway shutters allow the sunlight in during the day, whilst storing energy in solar cells to power the crazy lights at nighttime. Suddenly I feel like I want to party.

[Swongled]