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).
Glass window as a source of electrical energy can now be realized with ease. Many methods can be done, one of which is transparent solar cells that are used as a coating of glass.
For a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the utilization of solar cells as a coating of glass windows is not enough. The team consisted of Vladimir Bulovi? and Richard Lunt, managed to make organic solar cells are integrated into the glass with a coating on the inside of two sheets of glass, with modern technology, the two sheets of glass are combined into a glass. In this way, a layer of solar cells are protected from outside weather and friction that will cause damage.
