Fake skylights make you less SAD
Who doesn't love to stare out at blue skies and spring-time cherry blossoms? How about a perpetual starry night?
Well, now you can do so year round, 24-7. Taking a step forward from prettily framed landscape photos, The Sky Factory has come up with luminous, faux skylights.
Basically, hi-resolution photos are screened onto translucent acrylic or polycarbonate panels and then lit up by 6500K, daylight-balanced fluorescents or LEDs installed into the ceiling.
Since those are the same kinds of lights that docs prescribe to people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), they help your impostor skylight look like the real thing.
The company also offers virtual windows.
While initially intended for lining corporate building hallways and hanging above dentist chairs, the systems can also be installed in your home for between $83 and $413 per square foot, depending on the system you choose. But isn't that worth a constant smile?
Posted by Natalie Rodriguez | Categories: Gadgets & Electronics | Permalink
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Every now and then, when looking at older houses from the 50s and 60s, I see an architectural feature that leaves me wondering, "What were they THINKING?"
This definitely seems to fall under that category. I'm sure that in 15 or 25 years, it'll seem just as ungood-funky as 30-yr-old photograph wallpaper of natural scenes seems today.