All eyes on us: here’s the Hungarian smart bench

Platio, the Hungarian smart pavement, got a lot of recognition in international media, and now the inventors of it have come up something new: smart benches with solar panels. Nlcafe.hu reports that the whole world is interested in the smart benches set up at Városháza Park, Budapest.

Both the Hungarian and international media was swoon by a Hungarian invention, called Platio. Platio is a kind of pavement that harnesses and transforms those resources that would otherwise go to waste. These are human steps, biking, sunlight and night time public lighting.

The inventors of Platio came up with something creative and environment-friendly again, smart benches to be precise. These benches were made available to the public this summer at Városháza Park and can be used to charge your smartphone. Two international papers have written about it already, Mashable and Inhabitat.

The team worked together with the creators of Hello Wood, as they produced the wooden part of the benches. However, this time the emphasis is not on the exciting and comfortable design of the benches, but on the fact that they have the solar panel Platios built-in.