deLight recontextualizes the meaning of a lamp by mixing cultural and technological elements. The play of double coding --- traditional umbrella and hi-tech solar panels, juxtaposes contradictory styles and creates a hybrid object which signifies a new heterogeneous harmony.
By utilizing simulation of umbrella, it creates a new hyper-real experience. It blurs the boundary of indoors and outdoors and intensifies the feeling of leisure and relaxation. This kind of abnormal normality suggests a new domestic lifestyle.
deLight is suitable for many different situations. It can be used as indoor ambient lighting by placing it on a table-top holder or a free-standing holder. It can also be used as mobile lighting by hold it by hand to enhance visibility and safety at night. Of course, it can just be used as an umbrella or a sunshade for blocking blazing sunlight (and at the same time collecting solar energy).
deLight utilizes new technologies --- Thin film solar panels, Lithium-ion batteries and Electroluminescent (EL) light, to collect solar energy, store energy, and transform energy into light. It provides a new solution for energy conservation and proposes a new lighting ecology.
