Posts Tagged ‘intelligent’

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

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

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

Les Tuiles

Les Tuiles is a system of textile bricks designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat. Les Tuiles was conceived as a “immersive quilt” that erodes the fixed character of common spatial delineators like walls, doors, and passageways. The soft textile bricks form a continuous surface that may...

April 6th, 2006 | textile | Read More

Sunlight Tubes

Scientists are developing a technology to save energy by transmitting sunlight into buildings through tubes. Indoor electric lighting is the largest consumer of electricity in commercial buildings, according to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Their new system,...

March 14th, 2006 | feature, light | Read More

Geoweb

Presto’s perforated Geoweb cellular confinement system features an engineered pattern of perforations in the cell wall. This hole pattern provides increased frictional interlock with coarse aggregates, crushed rock and concrete. In vegetated systems, the perforations increase root lock-up, creating...

March 8th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

EL wire

ElectroLuminescent Wire consists of a concentric series of layers, each performing a different function. In the center is a solid copper conductor, which is coated with an electroluminescent phosphor. Two very fine wires are wrapped around the phosphor. A clear or colored plastic sheath comes next, and...

March 6th, 2006 | feature, light | Read More

Autoflex MARAG

Autotype, one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of film and chemical products, has launched a revolutionary new anti-reflective, anti-glare film that has been inspired from detailed research into the eye structure of night flying moths. Called Autoflex MARAG (MothEye Anti-Reflective,...

March 3rd, 2006 | feature, plastic | Read More

Flex-C Trac

Flex-Ability Concepts manufactures the Flex-C Trac system, which is a construction product used to build curved metal or wood structures. It can be used to frame curved walls, barrel ceilings, wavy ceilings, s-curves and columns. Architects like Flex-C Trac because the strength, quality and uniformity...

February 23rd, 2006 | metals | Read More

Activ

Pilkington’s Activ glass uses the power of the sun to clean itself. Activ is manufactured with the same advanced pyrolytic technology used to produce glass panels for electronic and photovoltaic solar-cell applications. Activ loosens dirt, gradually breaking down organic residue with a special PhotoActiv...

February 3rd, 2006 | glass | Read More