Just saw this on Infographic Showcase — I love flipping through there and checking out lighting infographics! We were having a discussion about LED life the other day at the office, this just bounced into my head! Click on the image for the full size version, courtesy of Infographics Showcase!
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JimOnLight with tieline dredlocks. Oh yeah, and Kung-Fu Action Grip: I’m back at the helm in Toronto; LDI 2012 has come and gone, I got to see lots of really amazing people, and I got blinded by not one, not seven, but eleventy (yeah, eleventy) freaking LED sources and screens. It was so refreshing to [...]
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Ok… WOW! Yeah. I could watch that gif all day. Implying that I haven't been watching it all day, right? Riiiiight… *shifty eyes* So what is this amazing thing? It's Water Light Graffiti, a project by Antonin Fourneau with Jordan McRae and Guillaume Stagnaro. There were graffiti performances by Collectif Painthouse and the project was made at the ArtLab. [...]
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Dutch designers Nieuwe Heren make another appearance on JimOnLight.com! You might remember them from their very cool Deconstructed Floodlight about a year ago. Meet the Aegis Parka — a jacket that lights up to warn you about polluted areas in real time. It reminds me of the movie Cherry 2000 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [...]
Read More ceramic, clothing, LED, Nieuwe Heren, pollution, schoeller CeraspaceI saw an interesting article this weekend from CNN World's website. A company called Eight19 has created a pay-as-you-go solar technology called IndiGo that is being deployed right now in Kenya. Check this out, this is Simon Bransfield Garth, the CEO of Eight19. I knew I would like this company as soon as I realized [...]
Read More Eight19, IndiGo, LED, pay as you go, phone charging, photovoltaic, PV, Solar, South Kenya, top upNow, I know what you're thinking – well, unless it's hey, I wonder where I put the remote… Switch Lighting has come out with an absolutely beautiful series of lamps that are being tested right now in "several distinct hospitality properties." This thing is absolutely beautiful, as are Switch Lighting's other LED A-lamp designs, holy [...]
Read More A-Lamp, incandescent replacement, LED, water cooledYou all know me, I'm not really a "press release" kind of guy when it comes to JimOnLight.com content. When I find a press release worthy of a nod, I try to get some of the commentary in there that made me want to talk about the release in the first place. This press release [...]
Read More analysis, Cree, LED, scientific, TEMPO, testingHoly crap. Check this out: The company that is making these is called Seekway, and it is a Chinese manufacturer – which has no office or contact information in this country. Caveat emptor.
Read More 3D display, Chinese, LED, SeekwayOne of the Duluth Crew, Alex Rugowski from Twitter, posted a tweet about this crazy 8x8x8 LED display this morning. This thing is driven with MatLab – remember that crazy thing?! You have to see this video – the fades are pretty smooth for an 8 pixel square 3D display! The engineer of this awesome [...]
Read More 3D display, 8 pixels, cube, LED, Nick SchulzeOkay, this is just excellent. I found this in a forum called The Daft Club – the creator's name is Agent RayBans on that forum. Great job, mang! At the end of the post are the full-sized images. Make sure to give credit where credit is due. Agent RayBans, great work! Here's the first image, [...]
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