Pisst….hey kid….come here….I got something that’s goin’ to blow your mind…..really mess you up….. http://www.fireflyexperiments.com “Firefly connects the world of CAD/CAM and parametric modeling to the emerging fields of interactive and responsive technologies, robotics, the internet of things, and more…” Continue reading Firefly
Two MIT Media Lab alumi, Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho, put together a creative little interactive lighting installation using battery powered, touch sensitive, magnetically mounted and repositionable color tiles that communicate with each other wirelessly.
Designboom has posted yet another rockin’ lighting installation, this time at HP’s Palo Alto office lobby. Designed by installation artists Tronic, a series of vertical video panels include sculptural back panels, and each panel automatically rotates to add a kinetic dimension to … Continue reading hp lobby installation
Yanko Design posted a nice concept by designer Seo Dong-Hun for an adjustable ceiling lighting system with individually remote-controlled LED pixels. Completely doable with current technology…just cost prohibitive. Continue reading draw the lights
Electroland is a Los Angeles firm that focuses on interactive lighting installations for public spaces.
Australian architects ClarkeHopkinsClarke have generated a fun concept rendering for an “interactive library wall” made out of iPads. The concept as literally expressed is impractical, but the idea is clearly supporting a trend for future architectural systems: A unitized, tiled, … Continue reading ipad concept wall
Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas recently unveiled a massive 18′ wide by 4′ tall rear-projection, multi-touch, multi-user interactive wall for showcasing its rock’n’roll memorabilia collection. Developed by Obscura Digital, a San Fransisco-based “digital design and technology marketing agency,” the wall uses three 1920 pixel HD projectors along with some serious graphics processing power to render a huge number of images and video clips with live multi-touch manipulation.
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Check out Core77’s coverage of the Tent Digital show in London. There is a very cool video showing a variety of interactive video and lighting effects. Continue reading tent digital london: a video from Core77
Seeper is a UK-based design firm focusing on multi-touch control installations. You really just have to check out their website and watch the videos…dazzling stuff! Continue reading seeper
Lumiblade is Philips first major foray into commercial OLED products.
In short, Philips is really just selling sample kits right now for design explorations. The samples are expensive, not very efficient (20 lm/w), and with only 10,000 hours at 50% dimmed output, the lifetime isn’t that great.
However, it is promising to see a technology that has been in development for over a decade finally, even if just tentatively, reach some level of commercial potential.
Multi-touch control systems, popularized by Apple’s iPhone, and gesture recognition systems, such as the dazzling computer interface that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report, are slowly-but-surely becoming commonplace technology. And these üeber control technologies are finding their way into architectural applications.
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Jason Bruges Studio out of London specializes in interactive lighting installations. The work is delightfully esoteric, plus their site has plenty of unique eye candy.
Now this is what I call “intelligent lighting”: The Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab has developed the prototype AUR: a Robotic Desk Lamp. With full motion robotic arm, color changing light source and mechanical iris as a winking/blinking “eye”, this has to be the most, umm, expressive desk lamp since Pixar’s Luxo Jr.
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