What Does The Future Hold For The Curtain?
It feels as though nowadays there is a relentless requirement for unique designs or different takes on everyday products and it seems that the traditional curtain is no exception. In the last few years, several alternatives to the fabric and pole technique of covering our windows have appeared and the old design just might not be enough anymore.
Listed below are five of the new choices coming into the market to take on the conventional curtain:
Curtains Created From Liquid Crystals
The technology behind the ‘Flexible Electronic Curtain’ seems pretty simple, but the actual process of it work seems a bit more complicated. This curtain is constucted from a flexible film that you set over your windows. It is filled with liquid crystals and becomes opaque when electricity is run through it.
Magnetically Designed Curtains
Now these type of curtains look pretty cool. They are rather large pieces of material with compact magnets embedded all the way through, which allows them to bunch up and keep together. I’m sure these would look fairly good if you had huge windows to utilise them, but they most likely wouldn’t look anywhere near as good on usual sized windows.
Curtains Made From ASCII Computer Code
ASCII-Code curtains, produce graphics onto material utilising the unique codes that stand for computer text. The ASCII code is a form of computer language based on the English alphabet. So these curtains are created from computer language. They can produce really incredible graphics in a silhouette-esque way, so it may resemble a huge landscape outside your window for example. This curtain is a modern method to blend technological innovation and furnishing.
Curtains Powered By Solar Energy
The creation of architect Sheila Kennedy, this curtain, that is in the development stage, has small versatile solar energy panels built into the fabric. The theory is that any energy that the curtain takes from the sun is stored and channels through to other electrical equipment throughout your home. If this design comes to fruition, fabrics will soon have the capacity to take the sun’s energy and turn it into electrical power.
Foliage Curtains
Some of the most progressive and unique types of curtain are not even made from materials anymore! A company thats is based in Japan designed ” green curtains” which are made out of plants stretching 1000’s of feet all over buildings, in a bid to keep them cooler, and greenhouse gas emissions low.
Using extremely technical equipment (that looks just too sophisticated to try to explain), they were able to ensure that the environmentally friendly curtains resulted in reduced outside wall temperature by 15 degrees Centigrade (27 degrees F) when compared with walls that were out of the shade.
At the same time, the green curtains are working to absorb around twenty four thousand pounds of co2 emissions (which is lots!) Extremely amazing stats, but I would say that this style of curtain isn’t entirely realistic to put up in our houses.
So, Are These The Curtains Of The Near Future?
Bearing this all in mind, it makes me wonder how many consumers will actually put any of these new curtains into their homes? I think I would probably say that many of these designs are more geeky gadgets rather than functional additions to your decorations, but you never know…
One of the leaders in the curtains sector, Paul Simon Home Furnishings operates online and has 51 outlets throughout England.
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