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Kurage Fibre-Optic Chandelier Adjusts Brightness By Tweaking its Curves
Posted by Kit Eaton at 10:27 PM on August 20, 2008
This chandelier-ish lighting design, dubbed Kurage3, allows you to change its level of illumination by changing how curved a shape it makes. Simple science really: If you make it curve past the critical angle for the 1.5-mm fiber-optic, instead of shooting through the tube of glass, the light from an LED light source leaks out at the corners. It's a messy, organic-looking light fitting, which is how fibre-optic lighting should be, or so it feels to me... that way it'd fit into my organic-looking, messy home. It's from Schemata Studio, but there's no info on whether you'll be able to buy it for real. [Yanko Design]
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jkr's bold comment
Posted 11:01 PM 20/8/08
for some reason when I look at this, I get the urge to use scissors.
jkr's bold comment
sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
Posted 11:10 PM 20/8/08
@Curves: It might require a feather duster.
"Con Permiso?" but with "glass" instead of "ass"
sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
Curves
Posted 11:06 PM 20/8/08
The same thing I always say for these beautiful, if impractical, things. How are you going to clean it?
Curves
Jimbuck
Posted 11:34 PM 20/8/08
So does it spin resulting in larger curves or does it remain stationary? *Brushes off old Paul Oakenfold album*
Jimbuck
Log1c
Posted 12:24 AM 21/8/08
@Curves: The lasers zap all the dust. Just turn it on full blast!
Log1c
Ike_Skelton
Posted 3:22 AM 21/8/08
I'd buy one. And I doubt it'd require all that much dusting, I wouldn't worry about it anyway.
Ike_Skelton
godwhacker
Posted 9:36 AM 21/8/08
yanko = never gonna happen
godwhacker
VideoVampire
Posted 11:47 PM 21/8/08
Cool a spaghetti light!
VideoVampire