Solaris Glass is a wall-mounted “lightwork” inspired by the beauty of sunlight streaming through stained-glass windows. The result of a collaboration between Los Angeles-based Visopia and padLAb, Solaris Glass includes a backlight that projects changing colored illumination through a handmade, fused-glass panel. The lighting can be set to run through [...]
Mitosis is a modular lighting system that is always changing. Creator NONdesigns’ goal was to redesign the way that lights are turned on and off and enable users to not only control the amount of light being emitted, but the patterns, shapes and impressions that the lights create. Mitosis is [...]
Wood.e is essentially electrified wood. Furniture made of Wood.e, with an electrical current of 12V, permits one to easily plug in different applications (plug and play). Wood.e is a built-up composite comprised by plywood and two integrated conducting layers. These layers allow for unprecedented possibilities for sound, light, and motion [...]
Meejin Yoon’s White Noise White Light is an interactive light-and-sound installation. The project consists of a field of fiber-optic strands and under-mounted electronics units that respond to the movement of pedestrians through the field by transmitting white light from white LEDs and white noise from speakers below a raised platform. [...]
Solar Ivy is a solar energy generation and delivery system inspired by ivy. Attached to a building façade, its “leaves” are flexible photovoltaic panels that flutter in the wind, creating a kinetic experience. Solar Ivy’s visual appeal and flexible hardware system bring a technology traditionally restricted to the roof to [...]
Hardcoded Memory is a device that projects low-resolution photographs with LEDs through Swarovski crystal lenses. Designed by Troika, the motorized projector casts circular lights from each crystalline optic, creating intentionally blurred and pixelated images. According to the designers, “Experiencing the dream-like imagery on the gallery wall, the visitor is immersed [...]
Minnesota-based 3M, a company well-known for the development of sophisticated material technologies, has recently ventured into the rapidly-transforming realm of lighting design. Flex is a linear lighting system that incorporates both straight and curved modules, allowing the flexible integration of lighting into idiosyncratic or high-bay spaces. Designed and developed by [...]
In the history of solar-harvesting technologies, flat panels have been the dominant format. However, scientists and manufacturers are exploring novel formats that exhibit certain benefits over flat panels. Barcelona-based Rawlemon has developed a technology called β.Torics that uses large, fluid-filled glass spheres to harness sunlight. The company claims that this [...]
With the demise of the incandescent bulb, scientists continue to seek alternative, efficient sources of illumination. Pure white light is especially important, and not easy to produce efficiently. Discovered in a lab at Vanderbilt University, white light quantum dots are micro-scaled fluorescent beads of cadmium selenide that convert LED-emitted blue [...]
Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University have developed a thermoelectric fabric that converts body heat into electricity. The material is made of layers of interlocking carbon nanotubes and plastic fibers, and feels similar to felt. The thermoelectric technology develops electric current from temperature [...]
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