Lampshade that knits itself

Nadine Sterk's Sleeping Beauty lamp is on exhibition at a show of design school projects, on display at the Design Huis in Eindhoven, The Netherlands -- it's "a lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed of three rotations per hour." Link (Thanks, Jeff!)

[#1 posted by Jeff , March 22, 2008 5:21 AM]

It looks like a giant sock knitting machine.

[#2 posted by Joyuna , March 22, 2008 7:38 AM]

Sleeping Beauty? More like Rapunzel if you keep it going long enough.

[#3 posted by noen , March 22, 2008 8:52 AM]

I like the image here. It sort of looks like a rocket engine. This would be even more interesting if after it reached this stage it reversed itself and then kept cycling through. Knitting and then unknitting itself over and over. Perhaps even adding variations to the pattern. That would be cool.

[#4 posted by Jeff , March 22, 2008 10:18 AM]

I think it would also be interesting if the light source would cylcle through a variety of colors, smoothly transitioning from purple to pink to blue...

[#5 posted by wah , March 22, 2008 2:23 PM]

Self-replicating robots are taking over.

Pay no attention to that lampshade in the corner.

[#6 posted by dichroic , March 23, 2008 12:49 PM]

SOmeone posted a link to this post on a knitting list of mine; as a result I read it today, March 23, at about 5:15. Thing is, I read it while sitting in a hotel in Eindhoven. Some quick research showed that today is the exhibit's last day, and that the Designhuis, which turned out to be only a short walk from my hotel, closes at 6. So guess whatI spent the next 45 minutes doing?

[#7 posted by Enochrewt , March 24, 2008 8:22 AM]

One of the sexiest things I've ever seen on BB.