google buys nest

Nest is pretty awesome, and it is blatantly obvious that they are going to be getting into residential lighting controls at some point.  Google is ambitious, and three years ago was messing around with some sort of new wireless mesh

google smart lamp concepts

Via Designboom, a fascinating (and extremely Media Lab-ish) concept project by design firm Berg for Google.  Essentially a stereo vision system married to a projector that uses physical tokens to control the virtual world projected onto the real.  Check out

data center lighting

I stumbled across an amazing article from the UK site Daily Mail about Google’s data centers.  The photography is beautiful and includes some very cool lighting effects, all of which seem the residual, unintended impact from the thousands of LED