At first glance, artist Ryosuke Fukusada’s wooden lightbulb looks like it was simply carved from a solid block of wood and meant to hang from a ceiling as an art piece. But it actually works — without it going up in flames.
French designer Matali Crasset created this hanging Court Circuit lamp that embraces its function as its form. It’s made from raw undisguised circuit boards embedded with LEDs, but since they’re arranged like petals on a blooming flower, there’s still an organic feel to its design.
At last night’s launch of its 2012 TV range, Samsung was at pains to promote its Smart TV offerings, which this year will include fitness apps, Foxtel and both talk and physical navigation options.
Forget your Maglite, your glowstick, and definitely your mobile phone; there’s a new, cooler brush for painting with light. It’s called the LightScythe. It’s a long wand of computer-controlled LED lights, and with it you can create some amazing images.
You can go on and on about how great the flatscreen TV in your home theatre is, but I guarantee it won’t hold a candle to the image, brightness and colour quality of Dolby’s $US40,000 reference monitor.
Snow Peak is known for its lighting gear that adapts to the needs of campers throughout the day. And their new Tulip Lantern is the smartest yet, automatically adjusting its throw when it detects it’s being used as a hanging lamp.
Wallpaper is boring, staid, annoying stuff; the visual look dates badly, it peels in inconvenient places and if you’ve ever spent any time with a wallpaper heat gun, you’ll know how annoying it is to remove. This LED Wallpaper probably wouldn’t take well to a steam gun, although it does have advantages when it comes to room illumination.
