Will lighting designers be replaced by AI? Is that a scandalous enough proposition to start this post with? Automation via machine learning is a scary topic to many, with the belief that route, repetitive jobs are at risk of machine … Continue reading midjourney AI
Lumus is an Israel-based startup developing waveguide lenses for projection glasses in augmented reality applications. I found this interesting post and video by Robert Scoble with the marketing and product heads from Lumus on the technical challenges and design of … Continue reading lumus AR glasses
A recurring challenge in innovation process management is interfacing with stakeholders who have various levels of risk aversion and either a generative (creative) mindset or an analytical (deductive) mindset. This is sometimes dumbed-down to a binary of “creatives” vs “bean … Continue reading the innovation attitude matrix
A interesting conceptual design project called Little Signals from London-based industrial design firm Map Project Office and sponsored by Google: Little Signals explores new patterns for technology in our daily lives. The six objects in this design study make use … Continue reading little signals
Huge thanks to Nic Paton, editor of the Lighting Journal from the Institution of Lighting Professionals for including a piece I wrote urging lighting specifiers to rethink what “sustainability” in architectural lighting really means. Check out “Cleaning Up Our Act” in … Continue reading cleaning up our act
The Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise sci-fi blockbuster Minority Report is turning 20 years old. It is amazing how it portrayed the future – umm, I mean the present – with such a high degree of accuracy. The proliferation of digital screens … Continue reading minority report turns 20: the future of layered realities
I last posted in 2017 about Skullmapping and their Le Petit Chef projection mapping dining experience. I just came across this nicely produced video showing a recent iteration of the experience on Celebrity Cruises: This creative use of digital projection … Continue reading le petit chef and friends
Come join me May 9th in Barcelona as I present “Every Surface a Screen: Now What?” at the Smart Building Conference at Integrated Systems Europe. Here’s my abstract: How will digital interaction disrupt centuries-old concepts of architectural design? There is … Continue reading every surface a screen: now what?
Many professionals working on B2B innovation projects lump together a broad range of the promotional activities necessary to launch their innovation under the generic concept of “MARKETING” – which creates tremendous confusion when trying to properly derisk and scope the … Continue reading innovation management: marketing vs product marketing vs sales communications
Fusion CI Studios posted a short video on LinkedIn that shows how powerful a digital experience can be at full architectural scale, showing off a piece of content that is really just a simple view of a tropical ocean. But … Continue reading virtual experiences in architecture
Nice factory tour video by Leyard Europe of their European SMT assembly line for direct-view LED panels. Just amazing the technology required to produce these video walls. And an good video showing clearly how these walls are assembled. Continue reading leyard europe factory tour
Disney’s new Star Wars Galactic Galactic Starcruiser immersive entertainment experience just hosted its first paying customers, prompting a massive number of YouTube posts and reviews on the experience. First, if you’re not up on the whole thing, Theme Park Insider … Continue reading disney imagineering and live conversational character interactions
YouTube channel Technology Connections posted a very thoughtful video exploring the topic of disposable LED lighting versus socket/lamp designs: It is ridiculous that the LED revolution reduced the lighting industry to this state. The most basic, simplistic of module/lamp standards … Continue reading the pro’s and con’s of disposable lighting
Sublimotion is a luxury immersive, theatrical dining experience that originally ran in Ibiza in 2014 and now is located in Dubai. An utterly wild, creative combination of digital content, physical places/objects/devices and human showmanship! Sublimotion is an unparalleled multi-sensory journey, … Continue reading sublimotion
Is the architectural lighting industry really keeping pace with the rapid miniaturization of LEDs? Case in point, I stumbled upon this model supplies site on Alibaba that is offering mini LEDs pre-attached to wire leads. The seller’s photography beautifully illustrates … Continue reading incredible shrinking mini LEDs
Some classic photographs of the Edison Light Week in Amsterdam from 1929, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edison’s lightbulb breakthrough. Enjoy! For my friends who can read Dutch: And a bonus from 1969: Continue reading edison lichtweek amsterdam 1929
This came through my email: An interesting new concept for a “black neon” 360° LED tube via Potato Lighting out of Shenzen. It must be grossly inefficient, but it will offer some wild special effects in creative applications. Continue reading black neon
Goldeneye is a California company that back around 2016 launched a very thin, diffused LED light engine/fixture based on a ceramic circuit board and housing. What is most interesting is that in 2020, they achieved an LBC Red List Free … Continue reading goldeneye airelight
Last year Google shut down its development of the VR painting application Tilt Brush, but rather than killing the innovative program, thankfully it decided to open source the code. Already a group has creative a variant called Open Brush. This … Continue reading tilt brush is open source
Are we specifying, producing and installing lighting systems that we will be proud of in the decades to come? Given all that we know about the disastrous effects of global warming, resource depletion and toxic pollution, are lighting designers proud … Continue reading specifying a brighter future
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