Conductive ink continues to offer tremendous creative promise, but it seems industrialization has been slow in coming. Although a few years old, I found a couple of beautiful and creative videos showing off conductive ink: Apparently this video below was … Continue reading conductive ink videos
Another way conductive inks are moving towards mainstream applications…this time through low-cost inkjet printing. Continue reading Quickly Prototype Circuits With New Inkjet-Printable Conductive Ink
At the expo floor for Strategies in Light Europe, I met representatives from DuPont that were showcasing DuPont’s innovations in conductive ink for printed and flexible electronics. Some really amazing stuff they were showing, including conductive inks in silver, copper, … Continue reading DuPont conductive ink for printed electronics
T-Ink is a New York City startup that specializes in conductive inks. According to their description: T-INK, Inc. is a privately held innovative technology company that utilizes proprietary “thinking inks” to enhance products through the creation of unlimited applications in … Continue reading t-ink
I continue to be fascinated by the potential of electrically-conductive inks for architectural applications. The ability to radically simplify low-voltage DC-based lighting and sensing systems by integrating printed electrical traces directly into architectural materials offers a innovation path towards … Continue reading bare conductive
Several technology trends are coming together – digitally printed conductive inks, conductive adhesives for pick’n’place machines, ultra small LEDs and other electronic components – to make injection-molded structural electronics very interesting for the lighting industry. The immediate application is obviously … Continue reading tactotek injection molded electronics
In a previous Linked-In blog post, I wrote about the advancements we’ve achieved with Philips Luminous Patterns, a product solution for embedding patterns of light into wall and ceilings to create distinctive architectural experiences. In this post, let’s look farther ahead … Continue reading driving towards new applications of light
Quick update on Idaho-based startup Rohinni, which I first posted two years ago. They seem to be making progress, albeit still in stealth mode on their product. They have a full staff, full board, and new office. Not much information on … Continue reading rohinni
Voxel8 is a Boston-based, Harvard spin-out startup that is integrating the printing of conductive materials directly into 3D printing. The future is pretty obvious at this point: I’ve previously mentioned conductive ink and 3D printing — combining the two is an obvious step … Continue reading voxel8
Corning has a pretty cool vision of the future, but this really takes the cake: Corning’s Willow Glass so flexible that it can be rolled up and used like a laminate. It is shatter resistant and can even be cut with … Continue reading corning willow glass
Via Digital Arts: Microsoft demo’d a small research project showing how consumers may one day print and assemble electronics. What I found interesting were the two suppliers mentioned: Mitsubishi Imaging is Mitsubishi’s commercial printing division and they are now advertising a … Continue reading microsoft, mitsubishi, and 3m
I’m presenting a 90 minute session at the upcoming Lightfair 2015, titled “Embedded Lighting: The Future of Integrating Lighting into Architectural Systems.” My session brief: Lighting has historically been fragile, dangerous, objectified. Yet new technologies are being developed to permit lighting … Continue reading lightfair 2015: embedded lighting
Without a doubt in my mind, the future for the lighting industry will be heavily based on roll-to-roll electronics assembly processes. The use of individually assembled printed circuit boards makes little sense for many lighting applications, such as many common linear … Continue reading bosch rexroth – roll to roll plastic electronics
Katia Vega is a researcher experimenting with “Beauty Technology”. Her Kinisi project is awesome: Vega is using conductive ink to apply LEDs and some sort of movement switches directly to the skin, allowing the LEDs to be controlled by the wink of … Continue reading katia vega’s beauty technology
Via FastCompany, Idaho-based startup Rohinni is demoing a new application of LED lighting they are calling “Lightpaper”. Rohinni is using a mixture of ultra-small LED die suspended in conductive ink: In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs … Continue reading lightpaper by rohinni
A very inspiring TED Talk from Leah Buechley, head of the High-Low Tech research group at MIT’s Media Lab: “How to “Sketch” with Electronics” Buechley uses copper- or silver-based conductive ink to draw circuits on paper. She also demonstrates how … Continue reading sketching with LEDs
Douglas Steele sent me a most interesting research paper titled “Large-area display textiles integrated with functional systems.” The paper was published by a group of researchers from several universities, including Fudan University Shanghai, University of Darmstadt, UCLA, and the University … Continue reading large-area display textiles
Below are 4 articles I originally wrote on my Linked In account, exploring the concepts and potential surrounding embedded lighting – the fusion of lighting with architectural materials. The pieces included (in order below): Exploring the future of embedded architectural … Continue reading embedded lighting series
Terasel is an EU-backed research consortium studying flexible electronics. According to their site: The TERASEL project envisions a world where non-intrusive electronics are integrated everywhere. To achieve this twenty-first century dream using reliable and economical techniques, the TERASEL consortium targets … Continue reading terasel
Via Core77: A very fun interactive installation from retail design firm Dalziel + Pow at the 2015 London Retail Design Expo. Daziel + Pow silk screened Bare Conductive ink and graphics onto a plywood wall surface and used the Ototo capactive touch … Continue reading dalziel + pow
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