Designers WenCheng Hsiao & Jin-Dian Cheng have come up with this wonderful device. It’s a LED light powered by the wind. Originally intended to used as a patio light, the design lends itself well to be fitted to other household light supplies – so long as they’re close enough to the balcony or an outdoor surface.
The Wind Bulb uses a small vertical axis wind turbine to generate the power to produce light from the LED bulb. The benefit of using a vertical axis is that it doesn’t need to be point directly in the direction of the wind in order to work.
It’s a great design that will hopefully encourage more to plug into better electricity.
(Spotted on Yanko Design)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
