Rock the Power, Gramps.

Designboom recently gave a green design award to the Murakami rocking chair.

Great invention – it’s a rocking chair with a dynamo and a built-in reading lamp. Your rocking makes the light go.

Rochus Jacob, designer:
Advanced nano-dynamo technology which is built in to the skids of the chair and more efficient light sources such as the newly developed OLED generation makes it possible to build a rocking chair with a reading lamp running on electricity generated from the rocking motion. During daylight the energy gets stored in a battery pack. The construction of the flat and bendable organic light emitting diodes allows new form factors such as using the traditional shape of a lamp but instead of having a light bulb the lampshade himself turns out to be the light source.

[via Ubergizmo].

Tags: engineering