more robotic desk lamps!

Via Core77 – two more robotic desklamps! We’ve seen robotic desk lamps before (check out this post or this post) and I promise…someday, I’m totally going to build myself a robotic desk lamp!!!!  I’m thinking maybe two — a boy robot desklamp on one side

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

your lighting is watching you

A delightful little robotic project from students at the Victoria University of Wellington called Pinokio, a project very similar to a project from MIT’s Media Lab that I posted a few years back.  Check out the FastCompany Co.Design article describing

the ultimate desklamp

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