Posts Tagged ‘electrical’

Soundproof Window

Extremely noisy environments near airports, roads, or loud entertainment centers pose acoustic challenges for building occupants, and typical windows cannot provide adequate protection against certain types of noise pollution. A double or triple layer of glass will absorb the high frequencies, but can...

May 20th, 2007 | glass | Read More

Cielos

Conventional luminous ceilings actually use relatively little lighting technology. They rely exclusively on a maximum clearance between lamp and diffuser – typically 300 to 700 mm – in order to produce uniform illumination, and rarely offer many color options. Cielos is a multi-colored luminous...

December 17th, 2006 | feature, light | Read More

Lumalive

Lumalive fabrics feature flexible arrays of colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fully integrated into the fabric – without compromising the softness or flexibility of the cloth. These light emitting textiles make it possible to create materials that can carry dynamic messages, graphics or multicolored...

November 5th, 2006 | light | Read More

Linelight

Developed by the innovative Tokyo-based company Material House, Linelight maximizes the illumination potential of artificial lighting by channeling the illumination of a single light source along a line. Linelight is comprised by a highly-reflective mirror housing fronted by an acrylic lens designed...

October 15th, 2006 | feature, light | Read More

16pxl Board

The 16PXL Board RGB is a versatile, multiple-LED panel designed for interior display applications. The board unveils its full potential when placed behind semi-translucent materials or fabrics, displaying any DMX/e:pix-input from graphics, text and medium resolution video content. The high performance...

September 21st, 2006 | light | Read More

X-Ray Lamp

Working long hours in the lab, cancer-immunology researcher Jahan Khalili was inspired one night to create light fixtures using x-ray film. Khalili wrapped DNA and proteomic x-ray film around a simple metal wire frame and hung the fixture from the ceiling and created the X-Ray Lamp. The typical lamp...

June 23rd, 2006 | light | Read More

Power Glass

XsunX has developed very thin translucent coatings and films that create large area monolithic solar cell structures. This semi-transparency makes their so-called Power Glass glazing desirable for placing over glass, plastics, and other see-through structures. Using patented processes, such as reel-to-reel...

May 18th, 2006 | feature, glass | Read More

Illuminated Surfaces

Thanks to research from the University of Southern California and Princeton University, almost any surface in a building, whether flat or curved, could become a light source: walls, curtains, ceilings, cabinets or tables. Scientists studying organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have made a critical...

May 5th, 2006 | light | Read More

Quiet Revolution

London-based XCO2 has developed an elegant vertical-axis wind turbine which is virtually silent and vibration free, and therefore ideally suited to both urban sites and exposed locations.The simple and robust design (patent pending) has just one moving part, maximizing reliability and minimizing maintenance...

April 21st, 2006 | metals | Read More

PLED

One of the most intriguing recent developments in the display industry has been the discovery and development of polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs). It all started in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in 1989, when it was found that ‘organic’ LEDs could be made using conjugated...

April 10th, 2006 | plastic | Read More