Light, Time & Us... All we are sharing the same time and the same planet to which the sun gives life. However, modern life makes us self-focused, and causes us to forget that we are a part of total life chain on our planet. Global warming, enviromental pollution and biological pollution threaten this chain and a sustainable lifecycle.
Lightimus is a decorative lighting design emphasizing the importance of the life cycles of our planet by keeping on its own life cyle during its usage. The product is in the form of an hourglass. One side is composed of solar panels and accumulates energy during day time. The other side is composed of a series of LED lights to lighten its enviroment during night time. When fully charged, its NiMh Battery can illuminate 12 LED bulbs (3mms) for up to 8 hours. When the lights fade away in the morning, you rotate the other side and put it under the sun; in the night it will be ready to illuminate its enviroment again. And the cycle continues - there is no switch on this product.
There is a photo resistor on the solar panel side of the product. As soon as you turn this side downwards, you put the lights on. LED bulbs fade away gradually, passing time like an hourglass. (Technical details of the product are given on the project drawings.) LIGHTIMUS is an innovative green lighting device with pure and meaningful form, intellectual structure and didactic usage.
36 Comments
this is an art project.
simple, beautiful, functional, poetic.... daha ne olsun!
fantastic
marvellous design congratulations
this is magic ...
Good
Now THIS feels like the beginning of a better future. Beautiful, functional, progress of ideas.....All that's needed is to be sure that all the components are part of a cycle too....and that the manufacturing and transport is run on renewable energy!
very nice,please send me more info because very interesting best regards franco from Italy soco@socco.it
Really Cool and fatabulous.
The world is very important to live in the period of such forward minded and people oriented project to reproduce a very good source to see türk increase young people's interest in this area is very important to us and a new future of humanity is very important to make sure that the project will be.and to renewable energy accept the world or maybe even the first steps to start small if necessary in...okay now and it is necessary to start road is open MUSTAFA EMRE OLUR.....
very nice project.
All the Best
very brilliant!!
simple but beautiful. I love the idea!!!!
It is wanderfull. Perfect.
congratulations
For improving consciousness about using renewable energy, this not only offers a green energy consuming product, but also an instructional green experience. Good luck for deeply considered project.
Poetic, and obviously a nice piece of modern artwork. However, it's just an hour glass with a solar panel and some LEDs. What is the purpose or function, how does this change behavior, why is the world better with this device --- doesnt this defy a fundamental principle of sustainable design?
a different design
Cool :-) Loved the idea, appreciated the design, loved the name... Congratulations!!!
Greenhouse effect, carbon emission, air and water polution what else is needed to endanger our future? Are waiting aliens to come and help us as in "the time the earth stood still" The project looks so marvelous and I am glad a Turk signed it. We are ysed to copying other nations inventions. This little lamp gives me hope for future. I know it is not the Alladdin's lamp but still it has a gen(e) ious behind it.
Splendid! congratulations...
amazing
Very practical and specific work of this study. Congratulations
Really really a perfect design, a simple idea with a nice design, i have not more sentences to say....
very nice, magic, beautiful
it's great. i like it.i think, must to go by series production. it's name very nice. it's design simple but very graceful. Good lucks.
Please get this into production. I would like to sell it for you! Wonderful.
God job.Congratulations
Extremely brilliant!!
Fantastic idea, i have not seen anything so sustainable and innovative in a while! well done!
Simple
nice idea, a bit ugly though
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