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Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs

Posted by timothy on from the hey-mine-frequently-is-too dept.

(eternal_software) writes "A company called Vos Solutions created what they call 'a blueprint for future living' named The Vos Pad. The Vos Pad is the world's first apartment solely lit by LEDs. There are some images of the place up on their website."

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  1. Well... by Q-Hack! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I looked at this and said cool... My wife looked at it and said YUCK!!!

    Just goes to show, Not for everybody.

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    1. Re:Well... by l810c · · Score: 5, Funny

      I swear I've seen a porno shot in that apartment.

    2. Re:Well... by QHacksCumGuzzlinWife · · Score: 5, Funny

      My wife has bookmarked my slashdot account and reads this stuff.

      Don't worry about me, honey, I created my own account.

  2. what? by awing0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure there are tons of slashdotters whose apartments are already soley lit by LEDs.

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    1. Re:what? by Metal_Demon · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are giving a bad name to geeks everywhere. Most of us aren't ashamed pussies.

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    2. Re:what? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's not really. While he lived in his cabin in the woods (only a mile out of town mind you) he also kept his commercial schoolroom, lectured, made few of his out of state tourist journies, sold his produce commercially and continued to be an active member of the transcendentalist literary movement.

      It was, as he stated, an experiment in minimalist living, and the form it took was that of a gentleman farmer and scholar reduced to the barest essentials. He also happened to love nature.

      No, I've never met a "back to nature" person who PETA would want to have much to do with. PETA isn't much for slaughtering livingstock and keeping milk cows and hunting. PETA are the very antithesis of the back to nature folk and can only exist in cities. The Amish are religious Luddites, not back to nature people, perfectly civilized and like it that way and very effective capitalists. They tend to think of the back to nature folk as city loons, and they're right.

      The back to nature folk are sort of a cross between hippies, survivalists and new agers.

      They're not only anticapitalist, they're antimoney and often antitrade. They have some vague romantic notions about "being one" with nature and try live totally and completely self sufficiently, by farming mostly, with some hunting and gathering thrown in, and making absolutely everything themselves, eschewing everything they perceive as technology (without any apparent realization that farming itself is a technology, as is a house and a candle and a steel hoe). They can't quite make up their minds about whether they want to be hermits or communists. They virtually all come from cities (country folk think of them as city loons, and they're right) and they virtually all fail.

      You can do mountain man/hermit just fine if you want. A good knife and you're set. A gun is really, really nice to have though, and matches make life easier. Every one I've known also has some product to sell now and again, even if it's only racoon hides. But then a good knife is actually pretty high technology. A gun is even higher. You're not going make your own of either out in the woods or on your little farm thingy. You have to buy them.

      The only back to nature folk I've ever met who "made it" were the ones that eventually realized that the way you make a living from a farm was by being a farmer. You grow crops in excess of your needs. You sell them and then you spend the money on things you need. Things that other people make in excess while you're farming. Things like oil lamps, plough blades, maybe a radio, or a knife, or an electric generator, or, gasp, modern medicine ( 'cause those natural herbs just didn't seem to do the job after all on little Johnny's appendicitis).

      Because farming is a technology of civilization. Go figure.

      Thoreau sold crops and taught school. For money. To buy things with. Things he couldn't make himself. Like flour (remember I said don't grow grain?) paper and ink. His family owned a factory in town that made pencils.

      I only know of one way to go completely back to nature that works. Full blown late stone age living. It can be done. There are certainly at least a few people living like that right now, although fewer every year (The knife and the T-shirt seem to have made it nearly everywhere now). I've tried it as an experiment (just because it's the sort of thing I do sometimes for fun. Really). I can do it. Others less suited for it than I have managed with a little extra to work with. Selkirk, for instance. It isn't what most people would call "fun." Oh yeah, don't get sick.

      City person. In the woods. Naked.

      Riiiiiiiight.

      They don't even know how to make a proper pointy stick.

      KFG

  3. Big deal... by odie_q · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I turn off my monitors, my apartment is also lit solely by LEDs.

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  4. Costume by MSBob · · Score: 5, Funny
    Are you required to wear a shiny white uniform when you are in the apartment? It looks like a set for a B rate sci fi flick from the fifties...

    Perhaps it's just that my interior decorating tastes aren't up to date :-)

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  5. Kenny Roger's Chicken by qedigital · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the Seinfeld where Jerry has trouble sleeping because of the red glow of the neon sign from the Kenny Roger's Chicken across the street.

    Your colour vision would go all out of whack as you move from room to room with the different colour schemes never mind what will happen when you go outside for some sunlight (that rat fur hat might even look good).

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  6. I guess the Vos Pad is now lit by,,, by NoData · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the crackling embers of a slashdotted server.