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Products I like: Reactive Paint

I learned in Japan that a house must adapt to the seasons.

Fūrin, for example, are  Japanese wind chimes made of glass which are placed under eaves during summer to get a feeling of coolness every time they swing with the breeze. It’s like hearing the wind sing. That’s because senses dance together! Don’t you feel all sweaty when listening to “Summertime” by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong? I can’t help it. I crave for strawberry and banana milkshake right away.

Reactive Paint is a paint that, well, reacts to temperature or even light. So like fūrin, it transforms your space to directly communicate with your sense of temperature, which is aligned of course with the season you are in. Imagine a wallpaper that blooms when the sun starts to heat up again. Me wantee! It’s like domotics but with a twist of coziness!

Reactive Paint (and the images above) by Shi Yuan.