Cold Light & Fiber Optics
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The Cold Light, a new fiberoptic sunlight tranport device, is the main attraction on display in Vienna at the Haus der Forschung. Called “0-24 Licht,” the design is the combined work of an architect and an artist named Angelo Stagno and Andrea Van der Staeten, who have won a design competition run by BIG, a development company in Austria. “0-24 Licht” is simple in concept: it uses a system of mirrors to focuses natural daylight through a fiber optic cable which can then be applied to many different lighting designs – producing interior lighting without any extra heat, hence the moniker Cold Light.
Cold Light
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A comment to Eva’s question. Fiber optic cable does filter the UV rays out of the sunlight. I don’t think this filtration would affect the benefit of using something like this for SAD. From my understanding it is more intensity based.
wow i never knew that Eva in NL, very interesting. I do lik the idea but i know that it isnt a new concept, furthere backing sean!
Am I right in thinking that this (unfiltered) light might also help those people suffering from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)? Currently a lighting system that mimics natural daylight is used to to trigger chemicals in the brain that helps them with this condition.
Eva in NL
this is no different from the fiber optic solar lighting made by Parans.