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Eyelight Dot Me watches from your ceiling [Video]

, Jun 11th 2009 Discuss [0]

Paranoiacs and the easily intimidated, look away now; the Eyelight Dot Me may just be a lighting prototype now, but one day it could be following you around your home.  Designed by Simon Schiessl and Felix Hardwood Beck, the light uses an array of LEDs to create a moving eye suspended from your ceiling; if it spots movement, it spotlights that person in a cone of bright light. Video demo of the Eyelight prototype after the cut Read The Full Story

Jake Dyson Motorlight Wall

, May 22nd 2009 Discuss [0]

If your father is Sir James Dyson, inventor of - among other things - the Dyson vacuum cleaner, you can either find a completely unrelated industry to work in or bite the bullet and try to innovate your way out his shadow.  Jake Dyson chose the latter route, and came up with this: the Motorlight Wall.  A remote-controlled lamp with adjustable iris, the Motorlight Wall can uniquely offer various spreads of light between 10 and 120 degrees.  Read The Full Story

Multi-color LED lighting on a budget

, May 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Even a couple of years after its release, Philips' Living Colors LED lamp remains one of the cooler ways to light up your living room.  Packing a rainbow of LED light into one remote-controlled unit, the biggest drawback is its price: around $180 if you can find it in the US.  Stepping neatly into the fray, then, comes this multi-colored LED bulb that slots into a standard MR16 socket and costs less than a sixth of the Philips lamp. Read The Full Story

Philips Lumiblade OLED panels get first-look

, May 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

Philips have begun taking pre-orders for their Lumiblade OLED panels, and the first delivery has arrived over at OLED-Info.  Intended for DIY lighting projects, the panels are pretty basic: the blue square OLED measures 43.7 x 47.4 mm, while the white freeform panel is 39.4m x 73.1 mm.  Each has a driver box with dimmer and power switch, and puts out 1,000 cd/m2 brightness.   Video of the OLED lighting panels after the cut Read The Full Story

Kenwood OLED lamps with integrated speakers

, Apr 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

Kenwood have unveiled a prototype speaker system that doubles as OLED lighting.  The system, co-developed by Kenwood and Professor Junti Kido from Yamagata University in Japan, uses 80-percent less power than traditional lighting, as well as being noisier than your typical desk lamp. Read The Full Story

Philips Luminaire Chandelier OLED concept video demo

, Apr 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

Philips are continuing their assault on traditional bulbs with the launch of two concept OLED lights, the first a compact table lamp and the second a more impressive chandelier.  Both systems use the company's Lumiblade OLED panels, which offer cool-to-the-touch, pure white illumination. The Philips Luminaire Chandelier consists of five OLED 'blades' balanced out from a thin central pole.  Light from the Lumiblades increases as movement around the chandelier is recognized.  Video demo of the OLED lighting after the cut Read The Full Story

Animated OLED poster promises cheap, flexible adverts

, Apr 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

An animated poster made up of LEDs and OLEDs could be the next huge billboard frustration, if Dai Nippon Printing have their say.  The Japanese firm have built a prototype panel which mimics animation by selectively illuminating different parts of the printed image, in this case the home stadium of the Rakuten Eagles baseball team. Read The Full Story

Green OLED tech doubles light efficiency

, Apr 3rd 2009 Discuss [0]

Japanese OLED researchers have developed a green phosphor-based panel with twice the efficiency of existing OLEDs.  The green OLED has light-extraction efficiency boosted to 56.9-percent, up to 210lm/W, and could be used in OLED displays and lighting. Read The Full Story

Sensor-based fluorescent lamp reduces power by 60 percent

, Jan 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

We’ve seen Bravia Eco TV with sensor-based practice to adjust LED backlit in real time, the similar trick is now being used in a Panasonic produced home-user fluorescent lamp to exhibit its effectiveness in cutting down your power bill. Read The Full Story

OLED large-panel lighting prototypes this year, claims Fraunhofer IPMS

, Jan 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

The Fraunhofer IPMS, responsible for OLED development since 2000 and the team behind the Center for Organic Materials and Electronics Devices Dresden (COMEDD), are planning to demonstrate the first roll-to-roll OLED lighting panels this year, as well as developing pico-projectors using OLED panels and touch-controllers using the technology.  Speaking in an interview with OLED-Info, institute director Dr Karl Leo described the group's intent to not only push OLED design but production methods as well. Read The Full Story

Glow Graffiti lets you tag with UV light

, Dec 30th 2008 Discuss [3]

If your kids love scribbling on your walls, or you're an agoraphobic tagger who gets fed up of filling your house with paint fumes, the Glow Graffiti might be your salvation.  Ostensibly a normal spray can, in actual fact you paint with UV light: the nozzle hides a UV LED (the batteries hide inside the can) and you can "paint" light onto the included UV-reactive sheet.  Your artwork stays visible for around 30 seconds, then fades away. Read The Full Story

New CatWalk stepping stones allow for a front yard light show

, Dec 16th 2008 Discuss [1]

More often than not you will find drab walkways leading to your doorstep or slippery stepping-stones that tend to crack. The CatWalk walkway is a modular steel walkway that was created with modernism, elegance, versatility, safety, and durability in mind. Read The Full Story
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