Posts Tagged ‘intelligent’

spOre

Tom Gordon and Ted Pierson designed the spOre buttons for their own homes, intending to make a positive first impression on visitors. spOre doorbell buttons are unusual in their use of energy-efficient LEDs as a light source. The transparent resin button provides soft tactile feedback, and the button...

September 9th, 2009 | light | Read More

Lighttex

When used as a window and skylight covering, the polyester-based Lighttex panel blocks and redistributes direct sunlight more effectively than vertical or horizontal blinds and creates diffused interior daylight with improved uniformity. Lighttex walls and space partitions enable daylight penetration...

September 8th, 2009 | textile | Read More

Texlon

Foiltec’s Texlon foil system offers designers new opportunities in the development of climatic and transparent envelopes. The system can be engineered to virtually any size or shape and can incorporate variable solar and thermal controls, enabling the envelope to be tuned to the ideal climatic or programmatic...

August 19th, 2009 | feature, plastic | Read More

Solera

Solera is a high-performance translucent glazing made of glass. As a light diffuser, it is the equivalent of three to four layers of etched glass. Solera allows glare-free light penetration because incoming light is refracted multiple times and will bounce off ceilings and walls deep into interior spaces....

August 16th, 2009 | glass | Read More

Intelliwhite

Intelliwhite is an intelligent solid-state lighting system that features variable color temperature and can produce cool to warm gradients of white light in the range of three thousand to sixty-five hundred kelvin. Intelliwhite applies Color Kinetics’ Optibin technology to ensure consistent color from...

August 9th, 2009 | light | Read More

Cell

Designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel developed Cell while exploring alternative methods of fabricating carpet for LAMA Concept. Unlike conventional carpets, Cell is not produced with a loom, knitting machine, tufting technique, or textile printing. Cell carpet is made of 100 percent industrial wool...

August 7th, 2009 | feature, fiber | Read More

Parans

Parans Daylight AB has developed a sunlight transmission system for buildings that consists of three parts: the light-collecting panel, SkyPort; the light transporting cable, SunWire; and the lightemitting luminaries, Björk. The patent pending SkyPort is Parans’s primary innovation. Two layers of...

August 2nd, 2009 | feature, light | Read More

MesoOptics

MesoOptics technology offers an innovative way to purify and control light with exceptional energy efficiency. MesoOptics material is produced using proprietary patterns of microstructures that are created using holographic techniques and replicated on a suitable substrate such as acrylic, polycarbonate,...

July 27th, 2009 | light | Read More

Stabiligrid

Stabiligrid is an economical, easy-to-install, load-bearing pervious-pavement lattice grid. It is an environmentally sound alternative to pavement, effectively reducing storm-water runoff and allowing the underlying soil to absorb and process environmental toxins, such as cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc,...

July 24th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Scintilla Lumina

A variation of SensiTile Scintilla, Scintilla Lumina extends light from a single source to hundreds of reflected points along the surface of a material. Constructed of acrylic light pipes, Lumina conveys light along considerable distances in accordance with the same principles that apply to fiber optics....

July 15th, 2009 | plastic | Read More