Illuminate your blinds

Feeling a little blasé about how ordinary your blinds look from day to night? OK. Fine, so you don't care. How about if they did something more than just open and close?

Designed by Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim, the Solar Vertical Lamp takes an average vertical blind and embeds it with special mini photovoltaics and LED pixels. Close the blinds during the day and the miniature solar pads on the back of the blinds start to soak up the sun's energy. Once the sun goes down, artfully placed lighting pixels illuminate in certain parts of the blinds.

(Credit: Inhabitant)

The two-dimensional lamps come in table lamp, floor lamp, and chandelier forms. Besides being completely energy-efficient and saving you tons of money on your monthly bill, they create a sexy and dramatic ambiance for any part of the home.

(Credit: Inhabitat)

[Mr. Bloggerific Himself]

So, let's see. Close the blinds to charge them up. Leave them closed to use the nice lamps. Again, keep them closed to charged... So, can we just mount them on a wall?

[UndrMediKated]

STOOOPID!!

[frobation]

i dont get it....what is the points for these??? im pretty sure u can buy blinds and the actual light, get the lights professionaly installed and STILL get it cheaper then those blinds

Useless design #12343253 =]