I was digging around in the hundreds of tabs I have open in Google Chrome (yes, hundreds), and I have so many tabs open right now on solar news and products that I figured a list would suffice. After all, those hundreds of open tabs aren't doing $#!& sitting on my machine, right? America, there [...]
Read More News, Solar, Sunday SolarHey, wanna see something ridiculously beautiful? This image is of a really young star cluster called R136 – scientists think that it's only a couple of million years old (you know, only), and lives inside the 30 Doradus Nebula. You know, the 30 Doradus Nebula. Yeah, I really have no idea where that is either [...]
Read More 30 Doradus Nebula, Hubble, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, R136, Widefield Camera 3Nina Tolstrup had a pretty interesting idea, you have to give it to her for reuse and originality – she took some old reclaimed wooden pallets, tore them apart, milled a spot inside of the 1" wood components, and made luminaires. Simple, in every respect of the word! Nina's 1X1 series comes in the three [...]
Read More 1X1, Nina Tolstrup, reclaimed, Studiomama, woodI wrote about the Philips LivingColors fixture in its initial form quite a while ago – and I had the pleasure of meeting the designer of the LivingColors fixture when I was in Sweden, Willem van der Sluis. Willem is one cool dude. We got to hear a lot about the original story of the [...]
Read More Color, home, LED, livingcolors, philips, physiologyThat's right – a bar of light, er, soap, wait, no, it's a light. It's a light that looks like a bar of soap. A Soap Light. Jiyeon Ahn and Jieun Kim of the multidisciplinary design firm Luca 12:00 have created this handheld light, which, as you can imagine, fades up and out as you [...]
Read More handheld, Jieun Kim, Jiyeon Ahn, Luca 12:00, Soap LightThis is an interesting project. I am still not totally sure if I like it, but you can make your own decisions. So, Martin Neuhaus' lamp, Becherlicht, is a projection-type luminaire. A source of light shines onto and through a transparent "cup" (I say that in quotes, but I think it's really a cup" that [...]
Read More Becherlicht, cup, fixture, interior design, Martin Neuhaus, projectorYou know, it's hard to listen to this guy, André Georgi, and not think "dude, you have a lot of passion for what you're doing!" I can personally say that I have never considered that a person had this much passion for designing an automobile's headlight cluster. Then I realize that if everything had this [...]
Read More A1, Audi, headlights, LEDSometimes things make you say "wow, that is really cool." There are other times when something is so amazing that there are no words. If you have never heard of Olafur Eliasson, I am so glad to say that today I am able to give you a spectacular gift. Olafur is one of the greatest [...]
Read More art installation, artists, MCA Sydney, Olafur Eliasson, Sydney, Take Your TimeA guy named Jakub Koźniewski created something quite awesome – using photocells, Arduino, a real-time audio synthesizer called Supercollider, and the Processing environment, Jakub created a pretty excellent audio and video controller. I wrote about the Processing environment a while ago, in relation to a project called MSAFluid. It's worth checking out the Processing and [...]
Read More arduino, DIY, hack, Jakub Koźniewski, photocells, Processing, real-time, SupercolliderThere is news out right now that Apple has filed for a patent on adding photovoltaic cells to their iPods. That's right. I almost put this in the What? category, but I am staying strong that maybe it's a possibility. Can you imagine? I mean, I have replaced the battery in every iPod that I [...]
Read More Apple, holy cow that is cool, iphone, ipod, iPod Shuffle, photovoltaic, PV, Solar