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Rocking Chair with built-in OLED lamp powered by you

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.

He says that  “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.”

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.
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