Via FastCompany, Idaho-based startup Rohinni is demoing a new application of LED lighting they are calling “Lightpaper”. Rohinni is using a mixture of ultra-small LED die suspended in conductive ink: In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs … Continue reading lightpaper by rohinni
Wow. Samsung is backing away from the lighting business, abandoning its nascent lamps effort (and presumably whatever strategies it had for luminaires) in favor of just producing LED components (which it needs to do for LCD production, anyway). So it leads … Continue reading Is the lighting party over? What’s next?
Via Dezeen: Ross Lovegrove exhibits sculptural lights in Barrisol pavilion at Biennale Interieur 2014. The miracle of LED tape lighting, continued, I’m sure: I’m guessing this is simply an extrusion, filled in LED tape with mid-power LEDs tightly spaced together. Stretch some … Continue reading ross lovegrove + barrisol = groovy
Sun-Tec is a small Swiss manufacturer of transparent SMD (surface mount device) films using either transparent conductive layers or printed conductive traces. At this point, I’m guessing most lighting people have seen the trick where LEDs appear to float in … Continue reading sun-tec
Check out the new fact sheet published by the DOE. It helps to clarify and dispel some of the myths surrounding LED lighting and its impacts on health. I think this paragraph is the perfect summary: What may be beneficial for an occupant during the day may be harmful at night, and may vary significantly between individuals in a given space. Complicating things even more is the need to balance the desire for alertness with preservation of normal circadian rhythms among night-shift workers, for example. Therefore, even if a prescription for effective nonvisual stimulation is developed, implementing the solution may … Continue reading U.S. DOE releases new fact sheet on light + health
There is far more to sustainability in lighting technology then merely reducing energy consumption — so I’m thrilled to see that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solid-State Lighting group has included a new section exploring the broader topic of sustainability in … Continue reading U.S. DOE includes sustainability in R+D roadmap
Both Samsung and LG demoed some interesting OEM components taken straight from the display divisions: LED boards with unique flattened optics for back-lighting a diffusion surface. Here’s from Samsung: Here’s from LG: Continue reading light + building 2014: direct LED backlighting
An interesting trend in lighting tech right now is the growing use of flexible circuit boards for lighting — commonly called “flex-tape”. Think of this as the high-quality evolution of ye-olde LED rope light. Lots of suppliers showed flex-tape components … Continue reading light + building 2014: flex-tape
The big deal here in Amsterdam on Monday was President Obama visiting the Rijksmuseum. He made one a hell of an entrance, considering they blockaded the entire Museumplein and landed not just one, but four helicopters for his short trip … Continue reading rijksmuseum: president obama visits
Fast Company just released a fantastic article exploring Philips Lighting and the technological changes impacting the lighting industry. For once, a properly researched and well-written article about the changes in lighting! Nice! For posterity I’ve saved it as a PDF … Continue reading how philips altered the future of light
I recently presented at and attended the US Department of Energy’s Solid State Lighting 2014 R+D Workshop in Tampa, Florida. A terrific event, the US DOE’s SSL group uses this input from key industry participants to help guide their long-term funding programs with the goal of promoting the adoption of energy-efficient LED and OLED lighting technologies. You can find my slide deck here: 20140106_BK_DOESSL_2014 Workshop_Tampa_V3_extra annotations We need to find ways to reduce the total costs of advanced lighting systems. And as big a fan as I am regarding digital lighting technologies, I want our industry to leave behind a positive … Continue reading US DOE SSL R+D Workshop
Via PCMonitors, if you are a hard-core lighting science nerd, here is a very interesting article detailing the LED sources used for LCD monitors and TV screens. Continue reading the evolution of LED backlights
Via Cool Hunting: A Kickstarter campaign for an interesting little design concept for a portable light cleverly disguised as a folding book. This is just amazing to me: This Kickstarter campaign raked in over a half-million in funding for an … Continue reading lumio
If you’ve ever taken the Thalys high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, then you’ve probably seen the massive greenhouses stretching out to the horizon as far as the eye can see. These are not just simple greenhouses or indoor farms: Think … Continue reading philips horticulture lighting
Ninebyfour is a beautiful, elegantly minimal linear pendant design that uses a unique material source: Felled urban trees gathered from within the city of Amsterdam . Designed by local design shop Waarmakers — they’ve tracked the location of where the tree originally … Continue reading ninebyfour by waarmakers
Via Gizmodo: DropShades — Glasses with bands of music-reactive LED lighting. There is no practical reason for these to exist whatsoever, but if you’re desperate for a gift for someone you know who is a total lighting dork, you could do worse… Continue reading dropshades
Audio gear manufacturer JBL recently released a portable Bluetooth speaker called JBL Pulse with built-in LED lighting effects. Looks a little small for the lighting effect, but of course it is meant to be portable. An interesting mix of audio, … Continue reading jbl pulse
At the BMW Welt center in Munich, they had a cut-away assembly of an LED headlamp on display. I only had my iPhone with me, and it was on a rotating display in a plexiglas case, but hopefully the pictures convey the … Continue reading bmw LED headlight assembly
Thanks to everyone who attended! In case you missed our presentation last week at PLD-C in Copenhagen, here is the slide deck that I presented along with Rogier van der Heide and Juliette and Sjoerd from BeersNielsen: 20131104_BradKoerner_PLD-C_IlluminatingTheRijksmuseum Continue reading rijksmuseum: PLD-C case study slides
Totally trumping Tom Cruise in the “futuristic” department, check out the new Milan flagship store for shoe brand Stuart Weitman by Zaha Hadid. I love the uniformity of the large, amorphous luminous ceilings, the minimalist detailing of the light … Continue reading stuart weitzman by zaha hadid
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