The Lighting’s On the Wall(paper)

by Vanessa Quirk

Imagine if your wallpaper was like a giant, touchscreen remote for your house: touch a flower here and, voila, your lamp is on; rub a petal there and, hark, the sweet sounds of your iPod begin to play.

As crazy as it sounds, The Living Wall is just that. The “High-Low Tech Group” at MIT’s Media Lab, a group that aims to “democratize engineering” by designing technologies with low-tech materials, created The Living Wall with only paper and magnetic/conducive paints.

Not only is this the only interactive wallpaper we’ve ever seen (unless you count that tasty wallpaper in the Willy Wonka movie), it also happens to come in vivid colors and gorgeous patterns.

This is one practical paper that comes with a serious “wow” factor.

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