The lightpack by Martina T. from uk
designer's own words:
A backpack is one of the first objects we own since we are babies. As kids, we want to personalise it with monsters, princesses, pins, graffiti, then we grow and we need room for our computer, a pocket for our smartphone and a waterproof compartment for our home-made food. Everyone has got a backpack and the most of us uses it every day. I wanted to simplify our everyday life by optimising the feature of the most used item.
The lightpack has been equipped with OLED stripes in strategic parts of the backpack. It is made of a mixed fabric, composed by solar-cell fibre to capture the daylight and a black fibre to optimise the amount of captured light. The captured power will be stored and then used to light up the OLED stripes when needed or alternatively to charge our personal devices through a USB port. The OLED stripes will be featured with an independent battery that will allow the owner of the lightpack to wear the stripes as single independent items. Wearable light is only a matter of time, the way we produce light needs to become as instinctive as it is for a luminescent jellyfish, being able to manage the light sources we need according to the diverse contexts we live in is the next revolution of light.
The lightpack is a backpack thought to simplify our life in the most critic situations.
Imagine walking in the darkness, cycling the rush hour traffic in a rainy, foggy day…
Imagine being alone, lost, forgotten, in an unknown, dangerous, isolated place in need of help…
Imagine camping in the woods, exploring wild places… the only thing you have is instinct…
The lightpack helps you in all these situations, gives you the thing you need: visibility.
The lightpack is made of solar-cell fibre that captures light and transforms it in power.
The OLED stripes of the lightpack can be worn independently as separate items.
The lightpack is the optimised version of an extremely common, useful object as a backpack.