A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, for instance at night to aid sleeping, or to stop light from escaping outside the building (stopping people outside from being able to see inside, often for privacy reasons). Florian Kräutli a design student at Eindhoven had a very clever idea when he made the Magnetic Curtain, a curtain which you can shape to any form”, magnets embedded in the curtain fabric allow the user to shape the curtain innumerable ways, both open and closed. Embedding hundreds of evenly dispersed tiny magnets into a grid of prefab folds allows for the easy manipulation of the silhouette or strategically modifying exposure for light and/or privacy. – Via – Yankodesign & Moco Loco
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Published by Michael February 6th, 2008 in Ideas
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Tags: curtains, design student, Eindhoven, magnetic, Magnetic Curtain, technology
February 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Supper cool, but quite ugly i think.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:52 am
An excellent work!
February 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I think that the idea is remarkable and unique and if some has a difficulty to make the room more brighter then this invention is more than helpful. As a Toronto realtor I`m very delighted by the new practical ideas but I prefer to combine with decorativeness. That curtain doesn`t represent me the beauty now but with minor alterations I think that it could be a very impressivel part of the home. Thanks for sharing with us.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Yes, you are right, the curtain doesn`t impress with the beauty, but I’m sure that if a designer could take a look at this idea, this curtain would look awesome.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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February 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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June 8th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I can’t believe this “Fact is that more and more people are suffering from sleep disorders caused by stress and high anxiety levels.”