Complexity Digest 2006.21 - 12

May-22-2006

Web Cast :

6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium

Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/06UCS/

Illuminating Changes Conventional Lightbulbs May Soon Be Obsolete, Science News Bookmark and Share

Excerpts:
WEAVE-AND-GLO. Mexican villager is illuminated by LEDs woven into a swatch of cloth to create a flexible solar battery-powered lamp. S. Richins/Univ. Michigan
In a remote mountain community of Mexico's Sierra Madre, people are tending fields, cooking meals over open fires, and field-testing light-emitting electronics woven into colorful swaths of fabric. Depending on how a person folds or hangs one of the hand-towel-size pieces of cloth, it serves as a cordfree wall light, table top reading lamp, or hanging lantern.

Sheila Kennedy's team at Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston designed the solar-powered lamps, which depend on light-emitting diodes (LEDs).