Shining balloon

The suggestion of lighting equipment floating in the air.

Shining balloon is the lighting equipment that carrying around is possible. In a Task Ambient Lighting Plan that is the thought that there should be the necessary brightness for the necessary place, we install stands lights in several places as part illumination generally, but I substitute it with 1, so it is the lifestyle that "Take it to the necessary place". The assumed retail price is around 100,000 yen (The life for around 50,000 hours, the helium gas can be supplemented.). It is the suggestion that used crash-worthiness and light weight small size and the longer life that are a characteristic of the LED to the maximum.

The concept seems to be a pet. It drifts like a balloon with helium gas relaxedly in the air. For example, I come home, I take him that led (charged) to the entrance to the living with me, or he play on a ceiling of the living at the age of a meal, or I take him to the bedroom and read a book. The article is charge type, you charge him in the daytime, and use carrying at night. When battery decreases at midnight, brightness declines slowly（It revives if charged.）. As the pet, I assume a single life or a couple as the class of users.

With the point of the design is satisfying predetermined brightness although being small and light, carrying around is easy and is usable intuitively. It consist of the part of the balloon and the part of the power supply, and the part of the balloon consists of an LED source of light and a film and helium gas, the part of the power supply consist of weight such as battery and the adapter. The balloon part secures for a soft most moving passage feeling like a paper balloon and the durability. Through touch interface of the power supply part, power supply operation, adjustment of the light, the confirmation of the power supply residual quantity are possible.

As part illumination of the Task Ambient illumination, an idea to carry lighting equipment such as the pet in a house may be some sense of incongruity in the modern life, but look back upon the past, there are the times when he carries a lantern with and move at night. Like this idea examining toward commodification, I save energy by photovoltaic power generation daytime, and scenery to carry illumination freely at night will be seen in the future.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2009.09 -