Global warming is wreaking havoc across the planet and more and more people are trying to cut down on their carbon footprint. The most challenging part of turning over a green leaf is often bringing about a change in the way we consume electricity because most of us have become accustomed to leaving lights and fans on when we leave a room. But this new innovation by Petra Schmidt looks to help ordinary people learn more about the way they use electricity in their daily routines and modify consumption when it becomes wasteful.
The second part of the designer’s Completing Absence series, this lamp features light and dark elements, which are balanced through common mechanism. The lamp activates when users pull on the light-shaded element. As time passes by, this end becomes heavier indicating the amount of energy consumed by it since activation. When this side reaches it lowermost extent, the self-regulating lamp shuts off automatically.
This may seem a little extreme from a regular lamp-user’s point of view but ultimately the lamp helps immensely in educating the user about the amount of electricity they waste with thoughtless consumption. On an average, an urban user will require artificial light in one area of his home for not more than a few hours each evening before bed. However, more often than not, people tend to leave lights on in the entire house during the course of the evening only turning them off when it is time for bed.
Wasteful and irrational energy consumption patterns like these can be regulated via the Completing Absence lamp, which automatically shuts off after a while and helps users locate the areas of their homes where they may be wasting power and they can subsequently rectify their behavior accordingly.
Via: Yanko Design
