Solar Vertical Lamp: one more reason to close the blinds
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 21st 2008 9:57AM
posted Nov 21st 2008 9:57AM
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I love how they couldn't find an actual woman to pose as a model...
Isn't this entire thing just a drawing... a concept piece....?
Uh, not to mention the fact that the lamp shown in the photo probably isn't the actual lamp that they are writing about.
People are asking just how you shut these things off. Here's an idea...
Flip the vertical blinds so that the side with the lights is now facing toward the window. Doing this may look strange however from the outside. Perhaps no lamp design is necessary and they should just evenly distribute the lights over the entire surface of the blinds.
The original drawing didn't have the lines at arm, waist, and ankle, I'd bet.
Frankly, the hovering lampshade looks wierd, but, if someone rushes to integrate smaller design patterns, this would make a fantastic eco-friendly nightlight for children's rooms.
I just hope their is a switch to turn them on and off.
Could you imagine waking up at night and walking into your living room to this?
Just as your spelling is "wierd." You know, "their" are teachers...
THanks Pavlindrom, everybody was really confused by the original comment... we couldn't figure it out without you.
I capitalized the H in "thanks" as well... hopefully that won't throw off the delicate balance of the universe.
"something that any second-rate hotelier (we kid... kind of) would love..."
People will steal anything that is not bolted down...
They should make it into an entire screen you can draw on. Touch one cube, it turns on, touch it again off. It would cost a HELL of a lot, but would be awesome.
I can see this in hotels and kid's rooms.
I do something like that already; I hang some solar yard lights in the south-facing window all day and at night set them where they will be handy as "night-lights."
So what happens when you turn them off and need to turn them back on again? Do they keep their charg?
Good idea and concept. Would save a lot on the ever increasing electricity charges.
Or perhaps I should just bite the bullet and have some solar panels fitted to my roof and an artesian well in the garden, only problem is how to pay for it:)
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I'm too lazy to follow links, how do you turn them on/off?
I'm too lazy to answer you.
i would
er.. not being funny but who puts their bed/bedside table against a window/blinds anyway? surely they'd be against the wall? I'll admit until I went through to the read link i assumed that was a wall behind the bed, but now I'm not really convinced it's that practical unless your entire wall is a blind.
Maybe I've just never seen them in the houses/flats/hotels i've seen. Cool idea though, didn't see anything on their site regarding turning it on and off but I may have missed that one.
Next step would be attaching an alarm clock system to the whole thing. Thus, whenever I want to wake up, those tiny light dots shine upon my face :)
apparently you can either open the blinds to turn them off, or there is a switch on the wall. the switch also allows you to choose the lamp shape as well: floor, chandelier, table or wall sconce I think.
they're cool either way.
I never understand why engadget reports so much crap from yankodesign.com. NONE of their "products" are even close to real-- they are whipped up by someone with either photoshop or cad. Its a DESIGN site.
If i send in a crayon drawing of my idea for a nuclear powered cell phone that is water proof and unbreakable and weighs 2 ounces while being 2mm thin, will engadget publish that as a "story" too?
STOP IT.
It all depends, does it have a capacitive touchscreen? eh?
I'd hit that.
Did someone design a way to turn it off?
It turns off at night when you don't need any light..
wait a minute...
I wonder if the glow is just on the inside, hope so. I'd buy ones with a soft glow on the whole of each blind.
Um couldn't you just paint your blinds with glow in the dark stuff that will charge during the day and glow at night, limitless design as well.
@ Freakin Ijit:
Hey! You were right. It's much hotter this way.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10575872@N00/3048290313/
Lol!
Is that the invisible woman from the fantastic 4?