Copenhagen-based Diffus Design presents a large collection of amazing research projects, exploratory designs with e-textiles and other unique concepts fusing electronics, light and materials. According to their site: Diffus is founded by Michel Guglielmi and Hanne-Louise Johannesen. Michel is an architect working with tangible … Continue reading diffus design
Via Dezeen, a demo video by London-based visualization studio VRtisan showing the potential of the architectural design process in VR. My own group at Philips Lighting, our Luminous Patterns team, is experimenting with the Unreal Engine for live renderings of our … Continue reading unreal engine demo by vrtisan
Yacht builder Oceanco, design firm Van Geest Design, and lighting design firm Temeloy Advanced Lighting Design debuted a new super yacht with a triangulated, animated, glowing hull design. It is a staggering engineering challenge, to equip a massive hull with a … Continue reading moonstone yacht
Via Engadget. Hover Camera is a miniature drone that can fly safely indoors. How about we add a light sensor that can detect li-fi/coded light signals, send it to map out an interior space and the position of all the … Continue reading hover camera from zero zero robotics
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
Along similar lines of work such as John Rogers is working on: And here is the background (I believe) for the video: 29.02.16 – EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original … Continue reading liquid metal stretchable electronics
Philips Lighting hosted a great interview with three leading lighting designers, Paul Traynor, Neil Skinner and Tapio Rosenius. I really enjoyed this discussion – in my opinion, its very on-point for what the real future and potential is for “lighting design”. … Continue reading future of lighting design
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 Dezeen. “What is fashion missing? Micro-controllers.” Some wild fashion concepts by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht that combines 3D printing, embedded lighting, projection mapping, sensors, etc. (not to mention some crazy insane 3D modeling skills!) into some very futuristic ensembles. Gorgeous … Continue reading anouk wipprecht
I hosted a session on embedded lighting for a group of local architects and we captured it to share as a webinar. I cover how fusing lighting into surfaces offers new opportunities to advance modern architectural lighting paradigms; some tips … Continue reading philips luminous patterns: embedded lighting webinar
L.E.S.S. Lighting is a Swiss based startup with an apparently novel new form of light source they call “nano fiber lighting”. According to their site: L.E.S.S. (“Light Efficient Systems”) introduces the next generation of distributed lighting systems as a new alternative to today’s LEDs or discharge tubes. Based on an active nanostructured fiber of the thickness of a human hair, our technology generates high quality light that exhibits both ultra-uniformity and brightness characteristics, surpassing today’s quality standards. In addition, the thinness of our fiber offers a high integration potential and unlimited design potential. Here is an article on their history/success. Their … Continue reading l.e.s.s. lighting
Via Dezeen: American car manufacturer Ford is developing lighting technology that can automatically detect pedestrians on dark roads and widen headlight beams at low-visibility junctions (+ movie). Ford has designed a headlight system that uses an infrared camera on the … Continue reading ford predictive lighting system
Lace, lingerie, and the future of lighting electronics! Forster Rohner AG is one of the leading companies for fashionable embroideries in Haute Couture, Ready to wear and Lingerie. As an independent business unit within the Forster Rohner Group, Forster Rohner Textile … Continue reading forster rohner textile innovations
Thanks to everyone who attended my “Embedded Lighting” conference presentation last week at Lightfair 2015. I had great attendance considering the “red eye” time slot! And lots of great Q+A from the audience and follow up after. For anyone who wants … Continue reading lightfair 2015 – embedded lighting – slidedeck
I had previously posted about what I call “solid state beam shaping” three years ago, so it is nice to see some actual industry innovation in this direction: OSRAM revealed a new multi-array lighting technology called Omnipoint that was named … Continue reading osram omnipoint
I’m certainly not a programmer (unless you count 1980’s vintage Apple Logo with the green turtle), but a colleague just informed me of a simple protocol standard called CITP that allows programmers to connect advanced lighting devices: CITP is an open protocol for integration of lighting controllers, media servers and visualizers on a higher-than-control level. It makes it possible to browse a media server with thumbnail previews of content as well as effects, to use the correct effect-specific parameter names while programming and to preview output from a controller or visualizer. It also allows bidirectional DMX, device selection and patch transfer … Continue reading CITP
Zane Berzina is a textile researcher who created a fascinating project called “E-Static Shadows” back in 2009. Berzina’s website contains an in-depth documentation of her research incorporating LEDs and sensing into textile production. According to her website: Artist, designer and … Continue reading zane berzina
I just found another project called “Living Wall” from Leah Buechley’s High-Low Tech group (which I previously posted here). This one dates from 2010. From their High-Low Tech site: This project experiments with interactive wallpaper that can be programmed to … Continue reading living wall
A very interesting projection-mapping art project, which I find very inspiring as a possible alternate lighting simulation tool: …the projection-mapped installation by Ravensbourne University students Mike Alger, Ana Mickovic, and Jenil Buria. Projected onto a 3D-printed diorama, different videos and textures appear to transport a couple cuddling under … Continue reading miniature projection mapping
Introduction – The Next Evolution Part I – Connected Lighting Part II – Embedded Lighting Part III – Sustainable Lighting Circular Economy — What goes around comes around. The “circular economy” is a movement to stop the industrialized world’s bad habit of … Continue reading the next evolution of lighting: sustainable lighting
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