Changing the lighting in your home isn't as easy as it may seem, especially when you buy that new massage chair beside the TV. You may need to move the lights all the way around the room or the house for that matter. In any case, since the wiring has to be embedded beneath the surface of the wall and the wall has to be plastered over and repapered or painted. Change your mind about where the light fixture should be and you have a messy and costly problem on your hands. Phillips has developed an innovative solution for that; it has designed a wallpaper with conducting strips running through it. Philips says that appliances such as lights and displays endowed with the right kind of conducting pins could be powered by just sticking them into the wall so that the pins make contact with the conducting strips.

You could experiment an infinite variety of lighting arrangements in your sitting room, with no expensive remedial work needed. It's a different matter if you decide you don't like your wallpaper, though. Then you have a real problem at hand don't you?

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