Thelermont Hupton blows glass into light bulbs that resemble things other than a light bulb. It's really that simple. He also makes other stuff, but he's really good at making these not-quite-a-lamp lamps. So good, in fact, that you can only email to find out how much they cost! Check out Thelermont Hupton's Blown Up [...]
Read More blown up lamps, glass art, incandescent, Light Art, Thelermont HuptonAmerican lighting artist Leo Villareal has created a beautiful installation of LEDs and programming called Multiverse, located in the tunnel within the National Gallery of Art – you know, the big tunnel, about 200 feet long, escalators… very similar to the one lit by my friend Marcus Wuebker in the Detroit Airport. The lighting in [...]
Read More LED, Leo Villareal, Marcus Wuebker, McNamara Tunnel, National Gallery of Art, tunnelWhoa. The above video is of the Impress flexible touch screen device, created by the firm Dis.Play – one of the greatest things about this project is its use of Arduino – the physical computing chip. From the Dis.Play site on Impress: Impress is the deliverance of the touch screen from its technical stiffness, coldness [...]
Read More display, flexible display, flexible touch screen, ImpressI discovered a company that does some beautiful work with the idea of suspending items together in a big love-fest of glass and color – the Propellor Design Studio in Canada is, from their own lips, "a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in the custom design of lighting, furniture, and interiors." They also do installations, dabble [...]
Read More chandelier, designer, fixture, Propellor DesignSony's OLED screen made a hit at CES 2009 – one of the blogs I go to for OLED information, OLED Info, had a great short video on the technology. Check it out! Thanks, OLED Info!
Read More CES, CES 2009, Conventions, OLED, Sony, Video, Video ScreenA Japanese company called Toshin Electric has released an LED fluorescent replacement tube called the "Bikei," and it fits an existing 40W fluorescent socket. The specs on this lamp are interesting; 120 blue LED chips, CRI of about 90, and 40,000 hours projected lamp life. Existing LED fluorescent tube type lamps are running a CRI [...]
Read More fluorescent, LED, replacement, tubeBarco has released a new device – transformable LED modules. They just released a press release, listed below: Kuurne, Belgium, 24 February 2009. Barco, a global leader in LED display solutions, takes creativity to the next level with the introduction of its transformable LED. Thanks to this brand new concept designers are no longer limited [...]
Read More BARCO, LEDAt the beginning of this month it was announced that Luminus, the LED company, is getting together with a Japanese company called Nichia to make parts for a new line of high-powered LED sources. Nichia's phosphorescent technology is apparently pretty great for making white light, so Luminus is going to make flat styled chips for [...]
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