Lightly Technologies is a Dublin-based startup making flat, tiled light engines using LED. Very simply, they’re targeting the profile shape of OLED with the performance benefits of LED. They are currently in the midst of an apparently successful equity-crowd-funding program … Continue reading lightly technologies
Congrats to both the Ketra and Lutron teams: Lutron acquired Ketra. Founded in 2009, Ketra had raised approximately $31m to date as of 2015. I have no idea as to Ketra’s revenue or acquisition price. Lutron is a solid company, … Continue reading ketra + lutron
Skandal Technologies have updated their website with their new “Poet” system for controlling ambient information in architectural environments. The Poet system unifies sensors, online data harvesting, generative content engines, servers, lighting solutions, and content management into one solution. According to … Continue reading skandal technologies: update
There is a growing opportunity for design firms that fuse marketing and brand experience, systems technology/integration, and architectural design to develop location-based digital experiences. Put these together and it might look like this: Such an integrated agency would be very … Continue reading brand, tech and place
I ponied up the money to WordPress to eliminate the ads from my site. I had always used the “free” version of WordPress. But of course nothing in life is free so apologies to my readers – I didn’t realize how obnoxious the ads were until I moved to a new computer and saw lucept from the point of view of a normal reader – not via the WordPress authoring tool. I never made any money from those ads and do not endorse any of that content! Continue reading no more ads on lucept
Rogier van der Heide is curating a new conference called Trends in Lighting in partnership with Luger Research. The conference will be held in conjunction with Luger’s Led Professional Symposium in Bregenz, Austria. Rogier has been quite outspoken about pushing the conception … Continue reading trends in lighting conference
The Ishikawa Senoo Laboratory at the University of Tokyo is demonstrating a setup they call DynaFlash v2 and Post Reality. They combine incredible ultra-high speed projection (1000 FPS), high-speed 3D sensing, plus the processing techniques needed to drive 3D mapping … Continue reading dynaflash high speed projection mapping
LG partnered with Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka for an insanely beautiful installation at this year’s Milan Design Week. The installation consists of two primary features: “Chairs” created from LG’s doublesided (!), transparent (!!) OLED screens and a huge wall created … Continue reading lg’s senses of the future exhibition at milan designweek 2017
Advertima is startup combining machine learning with digital signage. According to their site: Artificial intelligence teams up with digital out of home experiences. As the world’s first experience management system (EMS) Advertima combines machine learning, computer vision and big data … Continue reading advertima
The global powerhouse design firm UNStudio recently announced that it is launching a tech startup/spin-off called UNSense that will focus on using sensor-based technologies for the built environment. According to their PR announcement: With UNSense, our aim is to improve physical, mental and … Continue reading unsense
Join me on Valentine’s Day at the Strategies in Light conference in Long Beach, California. I will present some examples of using BIM, parametric design and virtual renderings to sell and specify “embedded lighting.” You can find the conference info … Continue reading more photons, less paper
A new Silicon Valley startup called Brilliant is launching an interesting smart-home controller/lighting dimmer that integrates a touch screen with optional touch-sensitive physical sliders. Replacing native 120V wall switches, the Brilliant has real dimmers inside it (you can even select … Continue reading brilliant control
Via The Verge: At CES 2018, Samsung is previewing a “modular” direct-view micro-LED 146″ 4K TV. LEDs continue to race into the future…and it looks like the trend for direct-view LED screens with incredibly small pixel pitch is going to … Continue reading samsung microLED
Happy Holidays everyone! Hope you and yours have a great New Years! And of course, another iconic holiday lighting image. Personally, I think we should name Clark Griswold an honory IALD member. I mean, he’s delivering at least 1fc at … Continue reading happy holidays 2017!
A very fun use of projection mapping and augmented reality technologies, Tablemation Studios uses overhead projections to animate the place settings at dinner services with clever forced-perspective visual effects and character animations. Sadly, they only have a Facebook page – meaning … Continue reading tablemation studios
Check out this gorgeously produced video from Bloomberg on the art and craft of neon lighting! The studio in the video is Lite Brite Studios of Brooklyn, NY. PS, “Lite Brite” — what a great name!!!! Continue reading neon
Via my LinkedIn feed, I saw someone from Shenzen Meiyad Optoelectronics posting interesting LED screen modules that include flexible and triangulated panels. Wild stuff…I wonder what the durability of these flex panels really are – there is tremendous stress on … Continue reading meiyad optoelectronics
Some updates I’ve found for LG’s OLED program… Magnetic Mounting LG launched a very cool solution for attaching their panels to surfaces: A magnetic click connection with a 360 degree rotating electrical connection. The fundamental problem of how to use … Continue reading LG OLED – update
Lighting designer Tapio Rosenius and a few other founders have recently launched an interesting new startup called Skandal Technologies exploring the field of ambient architectural communication via embedded lighting. Not much is public yet, but according to Tapio’s LinkedIn page and their website: Ambient Communication is a new practice where data informs interventions into the physical environment. Humans have substantial ability to process ambient and peripheral information that directly affects our feelings and subconscious contextual understanding without the need to activate cognitive thought processes. Introducing meaningful digital feeds to our built environments through ambient communication we enhance and extend our … Continue reading skandal technologies
To echo a piece I just published on LinkedIn, I’m asking my network for what cool software tricks designers are using to accomplish embedded lighting installations. I’m doing a bit of research for my upcoming conference presentation at Strategies in … Continue reading what is your workflow for designing embedded lighting installations?
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