The walls were alight with Solar Powered Wallpaper

Barring price and, uh, style, seems like if you're after ambient lighting then you're not going to do much better than by embedding electroluminescent materials into your wallpaper. They don't mention a manual override, but apparently the Solar Powered Wallpaper system features a light sensor which bumps the brightness automatically, and draws power from both solar cells or the grid. Probably less than ideal for the bathroom.

[Via Near Near Future]

[FourOhFour @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

"it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity" sounds like a manual override to me.

Sounds like a cool idea to me. Especially if it were available in something other than black.

[Asher69 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

"With power supplied from a solar charged battery, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity."

Hm... Not one to pick nits or anything, but that looks like a manual override to me.

[el @ Dec 19th 2005 12:53AM]

I used to have some of that UV walpaper when I was a kid. It never had any great designs, just dinosaurs and racecars. BUt then again, I guess that would please a child, especially if it changed colors.