Robot Monkeys » greenergadgets http://robotmonkeys.net The monkeys know all. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:38:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blinds + Light = Blight http://robotmonkeys.net/2009/03/01/blinds-light-blight/ http://robotmonkeys.net/2009/03/01/blinds-light-blight/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:28:11 +0000 jonathan http://robotmonkeys.net/2009/03/01/blinds-light-blight/

For Core77‘s 2009 Greener Gadgets competition, Vincent Gerkens of Belgium applied photovoltaics (similar to the ones seen before) to one side of venetian blinds and a electroluminescent foil to the other side to create Blight. During the day, it blocks light, but at night it releases it (so to speak).

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