Imagine lounging in a chair out on the patio in the evening. You fancy putting your nose into a book, but there just isn’t enough light to read.
How about if your rocking chair has an integrated OLED lamp that can be powered simply by the chair’s rocking motion? In other words, you generate the power you need as you use it.
This is what Rochus Jacob, a designer from the U.S. came up with in his design for the Murakami chair.
“I was looking for opportunities to generate energy through activities we naturally do. The final result is a rocking chair that enables the user to experience production and consumption of electricity in a gentle and rewarding way. An abstract process becomes tangible and eventually cultivates natural awareness. Complexity is covered by simplicity,” Jacob says.
Jacob explains how it works.
“Advanced nano-dynamo technology which is built in to the skids of the chair and more efficient light sources such as the newly developed OLED generation makes it possible to build a rocking chair with a reading lamp running on electricity generated from the rocking motion.”
He goes on…
“The construction of the flat and bendable organic light emitting diodes allows new form factors such as using the traditional shape of a lamp but instead of having a light bulb the lampshade [itself] turns out to be the light source.”
How cool is that?
If you’re wondering what happens during the day, when you don’t need the reading lamp, Jacob says the energy gets stored in a battery pack instead of going into the lamp.
It’s a highly efficient way of turning energy into light to reduce consumption. Basically, if you’re not rocking, the lamp doesn’t light up.
Jacob reckons that “to have a drastic reduction of consumption, the big challenge will be to make consuming less feel like getting more.”
Jacob beat 3,709 other designers from 96 different countries to bag first prize in designboom’s Green Life competition with the Murakami chair design.
I don’t know about you, but it does it for me. If the OLED rocking chair ever hits the market I’ll be putting one of them on my wish list for sure.
I can just see myself rocking along with my laptop!
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That is awesome. It doesn’t say if or where they are available, however. I’d love to have one!!!