Articles Posted in 2006

  • The Who’s 2006/2007 World Tour by Barco Lights

    Barco announces that Hollywood-based XL Video has selected Barco LED, projection and image processing equipment as the focal point of The Who’s stage set for their current World Tour.  Now on its North American leg, the tour’s graphically rich production is being called “a cornucopia of visuals” by music critics and attendees alike. Barco gear [...]

  • COOLLIGHT – Winner of House Party Design Competition

    Recently,  designboom had a “house party” design competition, and after looking at 3070 designers from 89 different countries, they decided on the top 3. Wen-Haur Yen from Taiwan took first place and in his own words describes his invention: COOLIGHT combines a handle and a steel cylinder filled with cryogen. When you need an ice [...]

  • Vivo Aquariums – Smart Led Fun for Your Kids

    Vivo is a revolutionary range of aquarium products that helps children and their parents to get into fish-keeping. Because Vivo makes it so creative, so much fun and so easy and safe, children retain their interest in caring for their fish, giving them longer and happier lives. The Vivo aquarium is made from shatterproof acrylic [...]

  • Seven Screens – Artifical City Light

    Artificial light changes how we see cities, both in functional and, increasingly, in aesthetic terms. Its fascination for artists, designers and architects derives from the fundamental role played by light in human perception. Light can create spaces that exist independently of architectural constructions. Without light, images could not be generated, perceived or reproduced, in films, [...]

  • Senspectra – Physical Modeling Toolkit

    Senspectra by Vincent Leclerc, Amanda Parkes and Professor Hiroshi Ishii from Tangible Media Group is a computationally augmented physical modeling toolkit designed for sensing and visualization of structural strain. The system functions as a distributed sensor network consisting of nodes, embedded with computational capabilities and a full spectrum LED, which communicate to neighbor nodes to [...]

  • Radios and Electronics: Starck Time and Weather Station

    Design meets technology in this collaboration between Philippe Starck and Oregon Scientific. The Starck Time and Weather Station is a new combination of style and function. It includes innovative functions such as precision timing with a clock that automatically sets itself to the official U.S. atomic clock, accurate to one millionth of a second. Its [...]