April 19, 2019 – The product goes by the name Solgami, a contraction of solar and origami. It is the invention of Ben Berwick, CEO of Prevalent, an architectural startup firm located in Sydney, Australia.
What does it do?
It is a new form of window blind that incorporates the Japanese art of origami folding to serve two purposes:
- bringing more illumination into the interior of offices and apartments, and
- harvesting the power of photons from the Sun by turning blind surfaces into mini solar panels.
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