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Imogen Heap’s Tweeting Dress – The Twitdress

February 8th, 2010 by Jim
Imogen Heap, LED, LED clothing, Moritz Waldenmeyer, tweeting

Do you remember Moritz Waldemeyer? He’s the guy who built Bono his crazy laser jacket for the 360 Tour. Moritz is an amazing designer – he’s designed illuminated clothing and all kinds of crazy stuff for many famous people – Rihanna, the band OK GO, Michael Jackson, and the Black Eyed Peas to name a few.

His newest “thing” is a dress made for Imogen Heap to wear at the Grammy Awards – LED flexible fabric, with an interface designed by MSA Visuals that displays tweets and photos in real time coming from the web. Awesome!

From the Times Online:

Heap, who composes her songs at home in Essex, attended the ceremony in a “Twitter dress”. At first sight her self-made outfit consisted of an oversized necklace studded with flashing lights and a transparent handbag that doubled up as a television. In fact, the necklace was a digital sign displaying messages that her fans were writing on to her Twitter profile. Those tweets were relayed to her jewellery through a wireless router — equipment that provides an internet connection — embedded inside her black dress.

Check out some images and a video:

A video of Imogen and her dress a-tweeting:

Posted in Designers, Display Technology, Industry News, Industry Professionals, Jewelry and Personal Lighting, LEDs, artists
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One Week of Never-Ending Sun

February 6th, 2010 by Jim
Poles, sun, Video

Whoa.

When you live near the Poles, there are points of the day at times of the year where the Sun never goes away. I just saw a video where someone has recorded a week of this never-ending Sun traveling through the sky. Check it out below – very excellent! Seems like good VJ content…

Thanks, LikeCool!

Posted in Solar, Video
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Bop Lamp – Like A Wobbly Kid’s Punching Bag Light

February 5th, 2010 by Jim
Baita Design, Bop Lamp, Brazil, fixture, luminaire, Rio de Janeiro

Remember those inflatable punching bag things from when you were a kid? I had one with a scary clown face on it, which makes me wonder if that’s why I am totally fight-or-flight when it comes to clowns. Meet the Bop Lamp – a luminaire that reminds me a lot of one of those things:

It’s a lamp that will apparently right itself when it’s touched – the lamp and ballast live in the bottom of the fixture, and it playfully rocks from side to side when it’s “bopped.” Thank goodness there’s no clowns on it.

Check out Baita Design’s website – the creator of the Bop Lamp. Interesting wares there!

Thanks, Design Blog!

Posted in Designers, Fixtures, Interior Design and Lighting, Luminaire Design
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12X Blu-Ray Star Trek Phaser That Actually – Um, Phases

February 5th, 2010 by Jim
be careful stupid, Blu-Ray, DIY, hack, Laser, Phaser, Star Trek

Okay, for super nerd-dom I have to hand this one to Jay Rob from the Laser Pointer Forums. Jay took a 12X Blu-Ray laser (from that great supplier AixiZ) and stuffed it into one of those old Star Trek phaser toys. So now, instead of being on stun, it’s set on “I’ll Burn You, Mofo.”

That’s right. Check out this video – Jay opens up a can of ButtKick on some balloons from across the room:

That is freaking awesome. Jay posted the entire how-to on the Laser Pointer Forums – definitely check it out! He’s even added a safety to his modification!

CAVEAT:
If you’re gonna be playing around with lasers, especially this kind of laser project, you need to cough up some bread and get a pair of laser filter glasses so you don’t burn your eyes out. Here’s a pair from OEM LAser Systems, Inc that will do the job fine, and here is a bunch from Amazon. Don’t mess around with this, you need them. Playing with lasers isn’t worth your sight. Oh, and also – you’re not gonna blame it on me if you screw up. Play smart.

Posted in DIY, Gadgets, Hack It!, Laser, Lighting Toys
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POLL: Do You Belong to Any Lighting Organizations?

February 4th, 2010 by Jim
IALD, IDA, IESNA, Lighting Organizations, NCQLP, poll, USA829

You know, I am sitting here going through my organizational memberships for 2010, and I wondered just now – to what professional lighting organizations do JimOnLight.com readers belong? Please let me know below – if you’re an RSS feed reader, could you visit the site and contribute in this poll? It will literally only take you a few seconds!

I have not added all of them to the list in the poll – however, if there is one you belong to that’s not on the list, leave a comment to support your org!

Select as many that apply below:

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Posted in Industry Professionals, JimOnLight.com, Lighting Organizations, Polls
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JimOnLight.com February 2010 DFW Happy Hour!

February 4th, 2010 by Jim
Dallas, DFW, Fort Worth, get together, Happy Hour, JimOnLight.com, JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, light, lighting, tribe, Trinity Hall Irish Pub

Hey, everybody! Are you in Dallas, Fort Worth, or somewhere close to the DFW area and wanna meet some lighting folks? Come to the JimOnLight.com February 2010 DFW Happy Hour!

Let’s get together in a few weeks – February 17, 2010, around 6:30pm – and have some pints, chat about some stuff, and enjoy each other’s company! If you’re involved in the lighting industries in any capacity or you just love light, come down to Trinity Hall Pub (off of Mockingbird) and meet some fellow lighting peoples!

I figured 6:30pm to 9pm would be plenty of time, but if we party later into the evening, then that’s just a plus for all of us!

Do me a favor – post a comment below, shot me a quick email through the contact form, or RSVP on the Facebook Event page if you plan on attending. I just want to try and plan ahead. Come on down, I want to meet you all! Let’s get a huge lighting tribe going in the Dallas area!

Trinity Hall Pub is located just off of Mockingbird, literally next to the Mockingbird DART station – 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75206. Check out Trinity Hall Irish Pub’s website, too!

Come on down, make plans, let’s get together!

Posted in JimOnLight Readers ROCK, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME.
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