Sunlight Pills Bring Tropical Beaches To Your Medicine Cabinet

Ceaseless snow flurries, power outages, the mercury bar of your thermometer stubbornly frozen near 0--if you’re anywhere on the US’ Eastern half right now, chances are you’re already bored with this current Ice Age. But over at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhine, Germany - a country that’s forever stuck with bleaker-than-bleak winter conditions and giant pale people - an exhibition called Lightopia may house just the Rx needed for your Vitamin D deficiency.

If you captured the sunshine from postcard paradises like BoraBora or the Seychelles Islands, and condensed it into 10-pill packages available for purchase over-the-counter, you’d probably give Zoloft and DayQuil a run for their money. While big pharma isn’t quite capable of doing something that advanced yet, French design firm Vaulot & Dyevre has created a clever series called MINIFLUX to suggest what such a medication could possibly look like:

“Moodiness, flaccid skin, looking dull, tendency to depression! You are obviously in lack of sunshine,” says a somewhat poorly translated English description over at Vaulot & Dyevre’s website. “Sunset Laboratories offer a wide range of solar radiation, from BoraBora to the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas.”

“Just ask your pharmacist. Read the instructions carefully. Do not exceed the recommended daily dose. These Solar supplements are not intended to be a substitute to natural exposure. Avoid abusive use.” You’ll still have to spray tan, though.

The series is on display with more than 300 other illuminated works at the Vitra Design Museum until March 9th, but you can check out any of Vaulot & Dyevre’s stimulating designs over at their website all year long.

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