solar wallpaper

Designers: Marta Lwin, Ty Whitfield, Teresita Cochran, and Ramakrishnan Subramanian

In a similar vein to Front Design's Light Sensitive Wallpaper, "solar wallpaper" (designed at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program) uses light (or lack thereof) as it's primary catalyst.

By embedding electroluminescent materials into the design pattern of the wall paper and incorporating a built-in light sensor, the wallpaper can respond to the lighting requirement of a room, acting as a decorative element when a room is naturally bright, and as a flat wallpaper light when the room requires more light. With power supplied from a solar charged battery, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity. Sustainable, efficient, functional, and technologically sexy.