Eco Factor: Outdoor furniture generates solar electricity.
People often don’t like waiting for someone, and the wait gets even more cumbersome if it extends after dark and you don’t have any place to sit other than some expensive restaurant down the road. Industrial designer Helena Bueno has tried to make your wait a little less boring with an outdoor furniture concept that keeps your wait illuminated.
Dubbed Cinco, the design offers a comfortable meeting point for pedestrians and also generates solar electricity using solar cells that are covered by a thin layer of transparent UV Acrilite, to gather solar energy during the daytime, which is used to power LED lights at night.
Made from anodized aluminum, the Cinco outdoor furniture offers sitting space for five, so when your wait is finally over you can start your conversations at the same place.
Via: TheDesignBlog
