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 … Continue reading more robotic desk lamps!
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 … Continue reading google smart lamp concepts
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 … Continue reading your lighting is watching you
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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