A mid-century Danish couch, fresh floral bouquets, an heirloom grandfather clock, and more—few would argue that home is a haven for personal expression.  And what better way to share your taste than with a room’s color scheme?

Many use paint (low- or no-VOC, of course!) to create a room’s ambience, but wallpaper is another great way to dress up a home and give it some attitude.  While typical paper options consist of floral patterns, stripes, solids, and other fancy schmancy designs, new technology has paved the way for digital wallpaper. Pretty cool, huh?

Lomox is currently developing OLED lighting technology to light up a room with sunlight-like coloring and consuming far less energy than an overhead lamp or light source.  The wallpaper will play as the light source and OLED lighting will be integrated into the wallpaper.  Lomox was granted $720,000 by the Carbon Trust to work on this and integrate the OLED panels into the wallpaper.  The Financial Times reports that the digital wallpaper could be available as early as 2012 since all financial and technological obstacles that were initially holding back the project have now been resolved.  The future holds a place to be energy efficient through décor and to have really cool, glowing walls!

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-Brittany Golde, KIWI marketing manager