If you can live without an amazing view, you can save a lot of money when renting an apartment. But why make that tradeoff? With these Better View blinds you can have the best of both worlds. More »
If your bedroom is positioned in such a way that you don’t get much light all year ’round, there’s a way to now fake sunlight with these illuminated faux-shades. More »
Your TV is trying to kill your children. Your DVD player is trying to kill your children. Your robot lawnmower is trying to kill your children. And now, your blinds – your soft roman blinds! – are trying to kill your children. More »
I like this idea very much: Instead of normal blinds to hide horrible views—and make horrible interiors—use one of these Better Views roller blinds. You can get night cityscapes showing Paris, Tokyo, Helsinki, and Stockholm. More »
Mods don’t get much simpler and more useful than this: It’s an alarm clock that whisks open some window blinds when the alarm goes off, so the sun can tempt you out of bed. There’s a microcontroller to handle detecting the alarm signal and to drive a servo wired into the blinds, and some switches to override the alarm and open or close the blinds on command. Check the video of it in action.
Sometimes a simple idea will make you react with ambivalence, but designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim’s Solar Vertical Lamp probably isn’t one of those. At its core it’s a solar-powered lighting system, but unusually it’s embedded in standard window blinds. During the day tiny solar panels charge up the individual lighting elements (LEDs?), and at night they light up. These guys have conceptualised the eco-friendly solution being an elegant lamp shape, but basically you could arrange the pixels however you liked. We wouldn’t recommend the legend “love palace” and a great big arrow pointing at your bed. [Yanko Design]
