Orange dreams up glow-in-the-dark digital tent
by Dean Evans at Friday 26th June, 2009 at 2:47 pm [0 comments]
As the Glastonbury music festival kicks off this weekend, long-time event sponsor Orange has come up with another intriguing eco-tech gadget - the Solar Concept Tent.
Designed in association with American product design consultancy Kaleidoscope, the Solar Concept Tent is an evolution of the Orange Solar Tent trialled at Glastonbury in 2003.
With a shell made from photovoltaic fabric technology, the Concept tent is designed to capture solar energy and make it available for internal power.
With its imagination in full gear, Orange suggests that the tent could be fitted with bizarre “glo-cation” technology. This would light up the tent in response to a SMS message or RFID technology so that disorientated Glasto campers could always find it in the dark.
The Concept Tent would also feature a ‘central wireless control hub’. This would display the amount of energy being generated by the photovoltaic fabric as well as providing a localised wireless internet signal.
Other dreamy features include: a wireless charging pouch to charge mobile phones, digital cameras and other gadgetry; and central heating (provided by a heating element woven into the tent’s groundsheet).
“The development of photovoltaic fabric will revolutionise festival tent design,” says Kaleidoscope Strategist, Finn McKenty.
“In working with Orange we have created a vision for a solar tent that we believe is a great glimpse of what’s to come.”
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