bench turn up by George Morozov from russia
designer's own words:
Nowadays a lot of people spend most of the time indoors working, studying, etc. No wonder we often can’t say what the weather is like today. Lack of fresh air and sunlight results in health problems: psychological discomfort and depression caused by monotonous routine work. Meanwhile modern computers let us work outdoors, the only problem is the limited operating time of accumulators for computers, phones and other electric devices.
A bench is a place in the open air. There are o lot of them in every town and city they stand in the sun all day long. So, why can’t we supply them with independent ecologically safe element that work on solar batteries? Then we’ll get an opportunity to connect up any device in any place. . It can be important for tourists, students and schoolboys, mums walking with children and elderly people. It can be important in case emergency has an independent source of power supplies. It can be important for a small municipal transportation on power supplies. Problems can arise only during the winter period in the countries with strongly pronounced seasonal prevalence of a climate when very the idea of staying for a long time isn’t, and light day is becomes short. In this case there are two possibilities:
- A backrest with the built - in solar batteries is dismantling and there is only a bench
-The bench is dismantling to the following season
Similar benches can be used for the organizing of temporary actions: seminars, press centers, festivals and other. Benches can stand on city beaches, in the parks, on the territory of office and centers of science and campuses.
-To create an opportunity it is to spend more time in fresh air and thus to work on a computer and to use other electric devices.
-To create independent and ecologically safe additional charge in city for connection of various devices.
To use an existing object of a city infrastructure a bench.
To reduce the negative situations where is impossibility to connect emergency additional charge in a city.
Additional comfort at use of a bench: an opportunity for a person to choose position in regard to a landscape or neighbors, always a clean and dry seat, evening illumination.
The city bench is supplied with the solar battery, which is built in backrest. The bench stands in a city street and charges accumulators. After that it is possible to charge various devices. Backrest is overturned and it helps a person to choose position. When backrest is in horizontal position, it protects a seat from rain and overheats. In the evening accumulators use it’s power for illumination. Benches can be connected in a network for redistribution of an electric charge and for the greater efficiency are added with separately located solar battery.
The bench has a metal skeleton and wooden lamella.
A backrest is mobile; it can be fixed on one on the other side and allows to choose the position. When a backrest is in horizontal position it protects a seat. From the external side of a backrest there is a gauge showing a level of charge of a bench. At lateral end of backrest there are runners, the same are under the lamella at a level of a skeleton are located. Due to these runners backrest can overturn. From the external side of a backrest the solar battery is established with a built in accumulator, the socket on 12V, DС Out, USB Out, Power in. When backrest is open, it is possible to insert the device for additional charge. In future wireless charge of devices’ll be possible. Now it is possible to take advantage of wireless technology PowerKiss developed Finnish company. In a metal skeleton fixtures LED for evening illumination can be settled down from below.
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