Bright Idea Shade from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.
The Bright Idea Shade is a project of the Eyebeam OpenLab, by Sustainability Action Group members Michael Mandiberg and Steve Lambert, with Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres.
We are converting all of our silver tipped incandescent bulbs into CFL
bulbs (as they burn out.) The problem is a bare CFL bulb gives off
harsh light that sometimes prevents people from making the change. So
we set about designing a lampshade for the bulbs. We started with the Universal Polygon Lampshade
and made it fit a CFL bulb, built it out of heat resistant photo
diffuser material (found a diffuser material that could be laser cut,
and built a laser cutter template.)
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The Bright Idea Shade is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Our goal is to get these kits into the hands of decision makers at
retailers and manufacturers like Target, Walmart, Kmart, Ikea, Home
Depot, Bed Bath And Beyond, etc. We have no interest in doing the long
term manufacture & distribution of this project. We are not
business people. The promise of the CC-BY license is that it can go out
in the world and be reproduce by others who have much better
distribution channels and manufacturing expertise.
