Archive for June, 2010

30
Jun
10

foscarini’s digital tunnel

I just picked this up from Foscarini’s website:  As part of their “Inside” installation for Milan Design Week back in April, Foscarini created a tunnel with digital projections on the walls and ceiling.  Check out the videos on their site.

It is difficult to pick out the actual projector locations from the images and video on the site, but I did notice in the video that the tunnel was visible from both the inside and the outside.  If you imagine a future with transparent OLED screens, this is how architectural spaces may look.  In the image below you can see the partial area of transparency:

08
Jun
10

the problem with reps and distributors

This a great quote, nicknamed “The Shirky Principal,” attributed to Clay Shirky.

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”

If lighting reps (or better yet, the actual manufacturers) simply posted lighting costs and markups openly, poof…no more reps.

If lighting manufacturers simply took money directly from…OMG…the actual customer, there would be no more need for wholesale distributors.

08
Jun
10

ny times: vintage light bulbs are hot

The NY Times has a piece on the resurgance in popularity over the past decade of Ye Olde Filament Bulb.

I especially love that the conclusion of the article is to use candles!  I often remind people that LED hotshot Color Kinetics, right before being acquired by Philips for $700m+, made only $65m in revenue, while Yankee Candle Co. makes well over $600m a year in revenue

People would still be buring whale oil to light their homes if it wasn’t illegal…

07
Jun
10

Flexible OLED screens: for real

Ecouterre posted a very interesting piece on Sony’s development efforts for flexible OLED.  Such “wearable” concepts for OLED screens have, frankly, been around forever and are getting quite tired, but what is notable is the embedded video finally showing an actual, flexible thin-film video screen in operation.




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