{"id":2245,"date":"2004-01-25T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2009-11-07T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T08:51:18","slug":"its-an-electrolumniscent-world-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/its-an-electrolumniscent-world-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s an electrolumniscent world after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a nut for anything illuminated (eg. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcodes.com\/motion\/gallery\/1999\/\">my sculptures circa 1999<\/a>) so this is definitely something I can relate to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIlluminated Handbags. Ladies, suppose that your handbag featured a \u201ccool, gentle light\u201d inside, so you could see where everything was\u2014wouldn\u2019t that be great? Of course it would, and the good news, reports Thaddeus Herrick in The Wall Street Journal, is that a recent innovation involving an old technology called \u201celectroluminescence\u201d is about to make it a reality.\u00a0 Electroluminescence, or EL, \u201cuses electricity to light up specially treated plastic,\u201d but does so in a way that \u201cgenerates so little heat that it remains cool to the touch.\u201d EL actually \u201chas been around for decades, but for years researchers puzzled over applications because of its low light intensity and the fact that originally it only worked on flat, rigid spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Those issues have now been resolved, as \u201cscientists and engineers at Bayer AG\u201d have developed \u201ca plastic film that can be molded into three dimensional shapes.\u201d Bayer has \u201cteamed up with Swiss lighting company Lumitec, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumitec.com\/\">www.lumitec.com,<\/a> \u201c which has licensed the newly flexible EL to Bree, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bree.de\/\">www.bree.de,<\/a> a German handbag company, which has been trying for a very long time to illuminate handbag interiors. The line of \u201cleather and nylon\u201d EL handbags, selling in the $250-$400 range, are due to roll out in April in Europe, Asia and Canada. The bags won\u2019t be available in the U.S., but Americans will be able to buy them via Taschen Inc., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen-canada.com\/\">www.taschen-canada.com<\/a> in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Handbags are just the beginning, though. Already the $350K Mercedes-Benz Maybach offers a luminescent interior dome, and interior designers see great possibilities to create all kinds of interesting new moods with the technology. \u201cLight bulbs owned the last century,\u201d says Robert Kumpf, vice president of business development for Bayer Polymers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayerpolymers.com\/\">www.bayerpolymers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern lighting technology will own the next.\u201d Some folks suggest \u201cthat clothes that glow could be all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drlevinkind.com\/priligy-dapoxetine\/\">https:\/\/www.drlevinkind.com\/priligy-dapoxetine\/<\/a> the rage.\u201d In the meantime, Alex Bree is pretty excited about his EL handbags. \u201cIn less than five years,\u201d he says, \u201cinterior light will be just as common in handbags as mobile phones are today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[via VirtualR]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a nut for anything illuminated (eg. my sculptures circa 1999) so this is definitely something I can relate to\u2026 \u201cIlluminated Handbags. Ladies, suppose that your handbag featured a \u201ccool, gentle light\u201d inside, so you could see where everything was\u2014wouldn\u2019t that be great? Of course it would, and the good news, reports Thaddeus Herrick in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[604,216,605,45],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-electroluminescence","tag-light","tag-materials","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}