Archive for: interior design

Light emitting wallpaper is green in more ways than one

  • August 12, 2009 8:06 am

light-emitting-wallpaper

Imagine a world where we didn’t have to have lights in every room with accompanying fixtures and stands taking up valuable space in our living quarters. Imagine a world where light could be placed anywhere we wanted, invisible to the naked eye until we needed it. Jonas Samson has envisioned and created what is quite possibly the coolest interior design product ever: Light Emitting Wallpaper. The paper is actually constructed of several layers; one for electricity, one where the LED’s reside, and finally a traditional wallpaper layer on top. Using the LED’s will greatly reduce the size and energy footprint (green #1) of the household which in return saves money on your wallet for electric bills. One caveat however is the cost. Marketed as a higher end premium product, those green bills you will save from reduced electrical costs will go in to the rather pricey entrance fee to join the cool kids club. With a price of roughly 6000 Euros/$8,500 USD (per yard?….green #2), only the truly wealthy will enjoy this new wallpaper for the immediate future. If you’re itching to get your own, you may want to put the horse back in the stable for a bit as it hasn’t been released to the public yet. Prohibitive costs aside, this wallpaper is insanely cool. Would you deck out your house in it?

Source: Walyou, Jonas Samson

Spruce up your interior retro style with Donkey Kong shelves

  • August 11, 2009 6:30 am

donkey-kong-shelves

The old school gamer in you has been through a slew of gaming systems throughout the years each with their defining titles. Perhaps one of the greatest and most known titles in the history of gaming was that of Nintendo’s uber popular game Donkey Kong. While nowadays such a game looks godly outdated and too simple. However, back in the day, Donkey Kong was the cream of the crop. If your old school gamer soul has turned into an interior designers soul (haha…jk) or if you simply love to decorate your house with geeky stuff, the Donkey Kong Shelves will surely do the trick. What better way to display your fondness for old single digit bit gaming goodness than hanging crooked shelves that resemble your favorite game? I for one could use a bunch of these. Heck, I’d replace all my shelves with them. They’re pretty cool don’t you think?

Source: Geeky-Gadgets, Techeblog