Murakami Rocking Chair

From the designer:

“I was look­ing for oppor­tu­ni­ties to gen­er­ate energy through activ­i­ties we nat­u­rally do. The final result is a rock­ing chair that enables the user to expe­ri­ence the pro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion of elec­tric­ity in a gen­tle and reward­ing way. An abstract process becomes tan­gi­ble and even­tu­ally cul­ti­vates nat­ural aware­ness. Com­plex­ity is cov­ered by sim­plic­ity. Advanced nano-dynamo tech­nol­ogy which is built into the skids of the chair and more effi­cient light sources such as the newly devel­oped OLED gen­er­a­tion makes it pos­si­ble to build a rock­ing chair with a read­ing lamp run­ning on elec­tric­ity gen­er­ated from the rock­ing motion. Dur­ing day­light the energy gets stored in a bat­tery pack.”

Inge­nious.

via design­boom