What will they think of next? Well the next answer to that question — in a seemingly endless line of answers — is solar powered furniture. Yes the design, texture, and color of your next bench seat could all be calculated by none other than that great fiery ball in the sky.
Austrian design team mischer’traxler has come up with a solar powered contraption that creates a wide assortment of very unique furniture pieces. The makeup of each piece — one per day — is dictated solely by how much sunlight the machine receives throughout that day.
One Tree of an Idea
They call it “The Idea of a Tree,” and variations in weather, sunlight, time of year, and any pertinent environmental factor will create furniture of different shape, color, size. You might call it photosynthetic furniture. Stools, benches, containers, lamp shades; these are a few of the “Tree’s” solar powered creations to date.
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