“It’s a good example of how design can accommodate ease of use,” says Rama Chorpash, director of product design at Parsons the New School. “It’s related to things like the iPod; you touch it and it responds directly instead of setting off some other mechanism.”
You may know it as the Pixar lamp but "The Anglepoise Lamp" can easily adjust to any angle you demand, and it’s industrial-looking and anthropomorphic at once. The key to its function is a rigid but highly flexible spring-and-lever mechanism that creator George Carwardine developed while designing car suspensions.
Translucent Fiberglass structure
Day-lighting living room using natural light from the Sun (as a light source)
Day-lighting living room using natural light from the Sun (as a light source)