A professor at MIT, Sheila Kennedy and her team at Kennedy and Violich Architecture (KVA) recently launched SOFT Rockers at MIT 150th-anniversary Festival of Art+Science+Technology (FAST) celebration.
SOFT Rockers is a sleek, solar-powered energy recharging station, disguised as a public furniture (teardrop lounge).
Imagine if your local bus stop allowed you to check your e-mail, share community information on a digital message board or monitor the local air quality? And perhaps best of all, what if it could tell you the exact location of that bus that you’re waiting for?
Vlada Davydova utilizes the solar panels and lights in a new way, Chaise lounge with solar energy.
Description from Vlada Davydova:
This is a concept how to use free solar energy. With this chaise lounge, that have three different positions, you can turn solar energy into electricity and use it, for example, as a backlighting at evening or night, charge your laptop or phone, if you want to work outside, or even use it for another places.
