Posts Tagged ‘electrical’

Paravision

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automated identification process based on the storage and retrieval of data using transponders or RFID tags. These tags are often associated with objects that may be quickly inventoried, such as product palettes, library materials, or passports. Keio University...

August 3rd, 2009 | interactive | Read More

Low Rez LED Net

Low Rez LED Net is part of a custom-built interactive public art installation consisting of a series of double-sided LED “nets” capable of producing video imagery and animated text. Each net is made up of approximately 8,000 double-sided LED pixels suspended on a cable-net system. The pixels are...

July 20th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Line

Part light fixture, part timepiece, part art installation, James Clar’s Line is a linear information display that utilizes the full-spectrum possibilities of tricolor LEDs. Since Line is a programmable device, it is provided with two factory-preset functions. The first function is a clock, which attributes...

July 19th, 2009 | light | Read More

Wet Lamp

According to Los Angeles–based NONdesigns, water and electricity have become friends. WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of hand-blown glass lamps, each with a water-submerged light bulb at its center. This placement of an exposed light bulb in water creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch:...

March 8th, 2009 | light | Read More

Power Plastic

Konarka’s Power Plastic converts light to energy, and can be integrated into any device, system, or structure that is exposed to light. Power Plastic is based on organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology and is extremely lightweight and flexible. OPVs are thin films comprised of multiple nanostructured...

February 16th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Textile Softlight

Molo Design’s Textile Softlight is an expandable floor lamp made entirely of sheets of spun polyethylene fiber that utilize an expandable honeycomb structure. Light is absorbed and contained within the fixture’s layers, giving off a warm inner glow. The facets created within the lamp’s honeycomb...

September 21st, 2008 | light | Read More

GreenPix

GreenPix is a solar power-harnessing, light-emitting facade system designed by Simone Giostra and Arup. Integrated with the curtain wall of the Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing near the site of the 2008 Olympics, Greenpix features the largest color LED display on earth. GreenPix behaves like an...

July 6th, 2008 | feature, glass | Read More

Hanabi

Like the Lotus flower, which opens its petals in the presence of the sun and closes them in its absence, Hanabi opens its lamp-shade “petals” when its bulb is turned on and closes them after it has been shut off. Representing an innovative use of shape-memory alloy, the heat of the bulb makes...

October 14th, 2007 | metals | Read More

Light-Emitting Roof Tiles

The roof has historically focused on one primary function: keeping out the elements. New technologies, as present in Light-Emitting Roof Tiles, allow the integration of additional functions within roof surfaces. Manufactured by Lambert Kamps, the transparent roof tiles are integrated light-emitting diodes...

October 14th, 2007 | light | Read More

3D Display Cube

3D Display Cube is a true spatial display unit that utilizes one thousand individually controllable LEDs to create three-dimensional forms and animations. The display cube, with its creative use of LED technology, can be used for retail or public display, signage applications, home display, or advertising. James...

June 24th, 2007 | feature, light | Read More