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It would appear the nature is slowly becoming obsolete. Who needs real plants when fake ones are easier to look after? Who needs real light when light bulbs, light balls and light walls are easily available? And who needs beautiful scenery when you can make it in Photoshop? It is becoming more common for people to just ignore nature, and instead replace it with expensive electronic gadgets. And it would appear that not even the sky is excluded from this ‘anti-nature revolution’.

I am not saying that SkyCeiling is totally useless and has no purpose, and to be fair it seems to be very good at what it does; imitating the sky. It is programmable, essentially meaning you can customize the sky that you see through a skylight in your ceiling. It can change throughout the day, and throughout the seasons which will at least keep it interesting as well as having some ‘theatrical effects’ such as dark blue moonlight or long shadows.

The website for the product emphasizes the ‘health benefits’ of this product, claiming that it can help a range of patients, from dementia to Alzheimer’s, which you cannot deny is a good thing…but can it be comparable to the health benefits to being outside under the real sky?

In conclusion I cant see how this will sell particularly well, for several reasons. People don’t often look at the sky in the same way they would look through a window; and the principal purpose of a skylight is usually purely for light. This taken into account, it would seem that SkyCeiling is little more than an expensive, advanced and largely unnecessary novelty.

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