Philips Electric Wallpaper

Low voltage wiring embedded in your wallpaper? As soon as we saw this patent application from Philips, we had images of rooms full of lamps, tv's and stereos without the accompanying pool of wires on the floor running from the outlets.

The concept relies on embedded metal strips that are pierced by special plugs, similar to pushing a pin into the wall. Now if we could only get it out of our head that touching the wallpaper would electrocute us then we think Philips has a definite winner.

-via Physorg

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This idea sounds good on the surface but it is a bit impractical if you think about it. I don't consider wallcoverings a permanent part of the house. The idea that one would literally need to rewire the house when he/she got sick of staring at the same wallpaper all day makes what used to be a fairly inexpensive project of redecorating your walls a massive feet.

I think imbedding the wiring into a permanent fixture of the house like foot, chair or crown moulding would be a better idea.

posted by Comicgeek on February 15th 2008 at 4:13pm
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The same idea can be applied to window coverings.
Somfy, one of the biggest manufactures of hardware for
electrical widnow treatments, released a complete wireless
solution for window coverings.
The motor is connected to an outlet on the wall and the
shade can be controled from anywere in the house via wireless switch.

Here is how it looks

posted by dave65 on February 26th 2008 at 9:34am
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