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Murakami Chair Comes With Its Own Light, Kinetic Charger

Some dual-function furniture items make sense.  The Murakami Chair, a unique piece that features a rocking chair with an attached lamp, could make a good argument on that end.  Even better, though, it sports an integrated kinetic charging facility, powering up the light source using energy created from rocking back and forth.
Created by Rochus Jacob, the plain-but-elegant piece managed to snag top honors at the Design Boom Green Life Competition.  It’s a pretty nifty idea, after all.  Why waste all that rocking action when you can use it to illuminate a small area of the room?

The Murakami Chair is clad as a simple rocking chair, with a long piece of wood protruding on the right side that holds an OLED lamp (in the shape of a lampshade) on top.  According to the designer, it uses nano-dynamo technology that’s built into the skids of the chair to facilitate the conversion of [...]

Dynamic Lamp Lights Up Using Kinetic Energy Without The Cranking

Ever tried one of those hand-cranked dynamo lamps?  They’re awesome for saving on electricity and all, but they do require too much work to get even a decent amount of light produced.   Karin Johansson’s Dynamic Lamp, on the other hand, uses the same dynamo function to generate the power, but does it without requiring you to strain your limbs in the process.
A spinning globe mounted on a diagonal axle, the Dynamic Lamp creates movement with just a minimal amount of effort.  Instead of one hand crank giving you one dynamo rotation, a soft push at the globe gets it to turn several times, essentially multiplying your efforts.  As such, the internal mechanism manages to harvest more kinetic energy than what you’re actually providing, allowing it to produce greater loads of electricity than when you put in the same effort cranking a lever.
According to the designer, the ball (which fits LED [...]