High Frequency :: 3D Display LCD Watch
Strutting your stuff with this baby strapped to your wrist is sure to turn heads, maybe even enough to compete with the bright lights of Tokyo.
The display pushes up the top row of lights and they float back down in a real equalizer effect, finally all the lights fall down off the face of the watch to leave only two lights to indicate the time for 5 seconds, then the two lights also trail off.
The watch uses very little power for the amount of lights and is far more efficient than traditional LED watches. Note this is not an LED watch. It is an Advanced LCD using only 1 LED to light the entire watch using new technology. This is why the power consumption is low.
The Mirrored face and numbers are very eye catching. When light reflects off it you are sure to get noticed. The design was done to accommodate all sizes of wrists both big and small.
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Inovative and Original Fiber Optic Fabric
Based on inovative LUMNIEX, LumiGram developed the technology that allows to wave plastic optical fibers alongside synthetic fibers, forming a luminous fabric. This innovation can be used in many fields: fashion and clothing (bags, accessories, clothes), decoration (pillows, tablecloths, curtains, …), furnitures, etc…
Unlike standard optical fibers, the fiber optic fabric emits light along the full lenght of the fibers. The luminous effect is simply stunning, dazzling, and wonderfully original.
Depending on the type of electronic module used with the fabric, several colors are possible (the most common and the most luminous being blue, red, green, yellow and white).
The Fiber Optic Fabric can be hand washed with water up to 70°C and natural soap (the battery must be removed prior to washing).
The Fiber Optic Fabric shouldn’t be washed in washing machine, folded (pressed) or ironed.
Volume - Light and Sound Sculpture
Volume is an immersive light and soung sculpture created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and Neil Davidge) that reacts to presence. Interaction is based on proximity, so without any participants it lies dormant, waiting to be awoken.
Each column contains a matrix of multicolored LEDs and a speaker. UVA use custom written camera tracking software to watch people moving through the space. As this photo explains, infrared lights are used to illuminate the area, whilst a high mounted camera looks down from above. I counted around 6 different scenes, each with a distinctive style (the video and photos show a few). The sound fitted perfectly, sometimes subtle, othertimes responding to your movements past each column. The garden is fantastic location for work like this, the water puddles creating reflection, shadows around the architecture changing and sounds travelling around the space. The color gradient fades are beautiful, and the nicest part was the interlude between scenes. The lights slowly die down, then pulsate with white light and sound in anticipation for the next visitors.
photo credit: John Adrian
UVA have now posted a video, watch it here.
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The Big Round Cubatron
The BRC is the world’s largest 3-dimensional full color dynamiclight sculpture. It is an array of lights 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. It consists of 28 spokes, each of which is 24
lights wide by 9 lights high. Each light is independently controllable to display any color and brightness level and the entire display can be updated 50 times per second. There are 6048 total lights (28 * 24 * 9) made of 18,144 LEDs. The BRC was funded by a Burning Man Art Grant.
The physical structure that holds up the lights consists of two pieces, a central mast, and a circular wall of poles. The lights are strung horizontally and from the central mast to the outer posts:
The central mast is a 10 foot 4×4 inch wood pole standing vertically in the center. It is supported by 1/8″ steel cables that run from the top of the mast to the top of each outer pole.
The poles around the circumference are 1-3/8″ diameter pipe and 10 feet high. They are pre-assembled into 14 “squares” along with some 3/4″ EMT pipe to keep the squares together The squares are held to the ground in each corner by rebar stakes. The tops of the squares are pulled tight and held down with rope and rebar stakes.
The light string wires are attached to the poles at 10 inch height intervals using plastic wire ties and paper clips. The bottom string of lights starts about 3 feet off the ground.
A small viewing tower was located to one side of the sculpture. It was built from some scaffolding two tiers high (10 ft), allowing people to view the sculpture from an eye level of around 15 feet high.
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Cell Phone Disco - playful experimental installation
Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone.
Flashing cells basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation transmitted by an active mobile phone. When the sensor detects EM waves it sets off the LEDs to flash for a couple of seconds. In general the flashing cells are enclosed in a plastic casing on a strap and sold as a fashion accessory for a mobile phone.
The Cell Phone Disco installation has two parts:
MOBILE AURA Flashing cells with sensors of higher sensitivity are used to detect electromagnetic radiation of active mobile phone in a range of approximately a meter. This way a sort of aura appears around the phone, revealing a part of it’s invisible body.While the user moves around talking on his phone, this aura follows the conversation as a light shadow through the space.
MOBILE DRAWINGMuch less sensitive cells are used to create a canvas for an inkless marker. The LEDs get activated only by an extreme proximity of the electromagnetic source. Moving the phone close to the cells therefore leaves a trace of light, an temporary electromagnetic drawing.
LXCL-PWT1 White PWT - Lambertian
Luxeon® Portable PWT light sources deliver bright, long-lasting white light from a very small package. This emitter generates 26 lumens of light at 350mA from a package that is only 2.0 x 1.6 x 0.7mm.
The LED offers a 2,000 hour lifespan with uniform white light produced by Lumileds patented conformal coating process. Luxeon® Portable PWTs are roughly 75% smaller than other LEDs with similar light output and delivers 4.5 times the lumens/mm2. This enables designs with smaller optics, smaller form factors and less weight than ever before.
The nearly perfect lambertian radiation pattern enables efficient optical designs. Surface mount capability allows for simplified manufacturing and it offers the toughest electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in the industry with an 8kV ESD protection chip.
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LED Faucet - Nice Look for Your Kitchen
The kitchen is increasingly a central gathering point in homes. Functionality and design characterize modern kitchen concepts. KWC kitchen faucets are oriented to a wide variety of customer needs and offer matchless functionality along with individual design variations.
The KWC EVE pull-out spray is integrated into the swivel spout and equipped with an LED light ring. Operating the faucets becomes an emotional experience. The light beam is activated with the press of a button. The illuminated stream of water flows into the basin and lights it and the work area in a very effective manner.
KWC EVE is available in chrome finish or stainless steel. Both materials are available with or without the LED light. Power is supplied through a standard CE approved 6,75 -volt power supply.The kitchen faucet is side operated and comes with an elegant, user-friendly lever guaranteeing a high level of comfort.
Demanding designs are always based on careful evaluation processes, market assessments, and marketing strategies. The precise implementation, however, is in the hands of the designer. The Aachen design agency NOA is responsible for the redesign of KWC EVE.
KWC EVE was awarded the international red dot design prize in February 2005.
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