Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
PHOTON portable solar panel system comes none too early for those who
on the crest of their mountain hike have discovered that the batteries
of their phone and camera are dead. No charger, no plug, no photos, no
bragging to friends. The designer of PHOTON is architect Kari Sivonen,
one of the partners in the Helsinki-based Valvomo. The prototype has been manufactured by Clothing+, a Finnish company specializing in intelligent clothing, or as they call it, wearable technology.
PHOTON is also part of SAUMA
[Design as Cultural Interface], a travelling exhibition produced by the
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. SAUMA (Finnish for “seam”)
presents 20 works of innovative contemporary design from Finland. SAUMA
is at the Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum till August 28, 2007, and will then move to Helsinki and Paris for 2008. By Tuija Seipell.
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PHOTON Portable Solar 
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