Originally developed for sanitizing hospitals and clean rooms, UV-C light technology can now be safely and easily used in your home! UV-C light has the ability to eliminate 99.9% of household germs, bacteria and viruses in seconds, without harmful chemicals. The Verilux Cleanwave Sanitizing Light Wand is a convenient and easy way to safely kill the harmful germs that lurk throughout your home. With a new improved design that is slim, and lightweight, this wand is very easy to use and perfect for eliminating potentially dangerous allergens, bacteria, and germs from a baby rooms, kitchen counters, flatware, bedding, sofas, bathroom surfaces, and just about anywhere within the home. The Verilux Cleanwave sanitizing light wand is also safe, featuring a safety shut-off that turns the UV-C bulb off when the wand it tipped upside down to prevent harmful exposure to your eyes and skin. This is a feature that has been overlooked by many manufacturers of UV-C light wands and we are very pleased that Verilux has included it on their wand!

You hold this thing over surfaces for between 10-20 seconds, and you’ve crippled the genes of the germs, if not killed them all together.  99.9% of those little punks will be destroyed, so breathe easy.  I imagine I’d be making that stupid VWOOOWV noise every time I used this thing, too.

The Verilux Cleanwave sanitizer is running around a hundred bucks.  Check it out.

Verilux UV-C Wand - Like An Ultraviolet Light Saber by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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Tomás Alonso has created the Mr. Light series of lamps - not unlike the Plof lamp from Yonoh, but not totally like it either.  Mr. Light is designed around the new LED version of the T-8 fluorescent, and makes the LED T-8 the centerpiece of the fixture.  I like the form of the function - my concern would be spillage.  I’m one of those people who actually enjoys designing with fluorescent sources, but only when I can control the field angle.  All that being said, this is a pretty clever light, and I’m digging it.

Check out some images of Tomás’s Mr. Light, courtesy of Yatzer:

Mr. Light, That’s My Name - That Name Again is Mr. Light by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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and for your enjoyment, a video of David Carrusso one-liners:

Gross yourself out with the MicroBlue Forensic Evidence Detector light here.

Home CSI - Do I Really Want to Know??? by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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Then I was wow’ed by the wonder of the Universe Light - a fixture with particular attention paid to the shade - and beautiful projections.  This light casts lighting texture all over the room - interesting, unique texture.  I love, love, love projection fixtures.  If my wife would let me do it, I’d have them all over the house.  Why paint texture on the walls when you can use the magic of projection to do it?

I LOVE this light.  The website could use some loving.  But the light totally makes up for it.

Thanks, Designboom!

The Universe Light from Metaconcrete by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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Cliff Garten, the architect/sculptor guy, was commissioned to provide the series of six LED towers, each over 36 feet high.  From the city website:

Towering 36 feet above the streetscape, the Avenue of Light sculptures are comprised of 100 stainless steel plates that reflect sunlight by day and focus beams of energy-efficient LED lights at night. They’ve been installed along the median from Lamar Street to Main/Commerce Street and will be illuminated with white lights from dusk to dawn, but will include many color options to accent the avenue during holidays and other special occasions.

Cool.  Anyone been over to see this yet?

Cliff Garten’s “Avenue of Light” in Fort Worth, TX by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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I just read an interesting post over at Apartment Therapy Unplugged about a solar powered, sealed jar light that looks pretty cool.  It really looks like the little jars of health that the main character in the old Nintendo game “Star Tropics” needed when you were getting your tail beaten.  Or, it looks like a jar of magic.  Or, formulate your own opinion, as I’m out of metapohor.  It’s a cool little lighting gadgety thing!

The Sun Jar - Like Tinkerbell Stuck In A Bottle? by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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The basics of the topic - Future Lighting Solutions helped a symphony orchestra in Jena, Germany add a ton of colored light via light-up weather balloons to the concert.  Alexander Scriabin’s original work, “Prometheus: Poem of Fire” was the inspiration for adding all of this colored light.  From the press release:

December 19, 2008, was a red-letter day - and purple, pink, blue, green and gold, too - in the annals of symphony performance.  On that date, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra in Jena, Germany, performed works by composers Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky and Georg Friedrich Haas in a concert hall filled with 170 weather balloons that changed color to complement and enhance the music.  The historic LED-driven light-art concert was the culmination of a joint development eff ort between an artist and members of the Future Lighting Solutions network, fulfilling Scriabin’s 20th century vision of marrying color to music by utilizing never-before-possible 21st century solid-state lighting.

The gist of Scrabin’s work for “Prometheus” was to have a keyed device - a “color organ” of sorts - that would project light of different colors onto a screen during the symphony.  Apparently this guy and I would have thought a lot alike, because this is an awesome idea.  There are musicologists that believe that Scriabin wanted to flood the entire inside of the symphony hall with colored light, but gave up on that idea once he realized that it was technologically impossible.  Too bad that VL3500 Spots and Mac 2K Washes didn’t exist back when he was rocking the stave pad.

What’s even more interesting about this whole idea of lighting the symphony with color was perhaps due to a condition that Scriabin might have had called Synesthesia - “a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.”  So essentially, Scriabin associated different colors with different musical notes.  At one point, he went as far as to graphically associate the notes with different colors on the octave pad.  Check it out:

Wouldn’t you love to live for a week in this guy’s brain?

Future Lighting Solutions provided the LED mechanism for the weather balloons, which was a complicated system of LEDs and a sensor that kept the light emanating from the balloons chromatically accurate among the system.  If you’re lighting the music of a composer like Scriabin, paying attention to detail is certainly the way to go, at least in my opinion.  I’m also the kind of person who at least tries to do everything I do at 100 miles per hour and full power.  More from the press release, this time about the LED system:

Each module consisted of 18 red, green and blue LUXEON® Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds mounted on six metal-core PCBs with three LEDs per board.  The PCBs in turn were affi xed to six-sided metal submounts screwed into aluminum tubes inserted into each balloon. The balloons were outfitted with one to four LED modules, depending on balloon size, enabling each orb to be lit from within by 18 to 72 LEDs. A MAL Effekt-developed DMX512 Power module was used to drive the LEDs, generate the desired colors, and control both color point and brightness via pulse width modulation (PWM).

Several steps were taken to assure color consistency in the LEDs themselves.  First, MAL Effekt used proprietary Future tools to calculate the achievable chromaticity coordinates and thereby determine which color bins were required to produce the color values specifi ed by the artist. Second, the firm took advantage of Future’s binning program to ensure that every balloon would be illuminated by LEDs from the same bin of each color in Future’s managed inventory.

For additional uniformity assurance, each balloon was also fitted with a JENCOLOR color sensor developed by MAZeT and manufactured by JENOPTIK.  The sensors monitored the color produced by the RGB modules and sent the information from a central DMX512 control panel to a custom MAZeT electronic for any necessary adjustments to ensure the homogeneity of color tones from balloon to balloon.

Such great images - check them out!

testing the LEDs in the weather balloons

the LED rig for the weather balloons

production shot

Check out more info on Synethesia, and check out the Future Lighting Solutions website.

Thanks, Kati!

Future Lighting Solutions Helps Alexander Scriabin Explore His Synesthesia Post-Humously by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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What no one is talking about, however, is the fact that in addition to the rental costs that the supply companies (PRG) are going to lose, the MJ crew and designers are now out of work.  Don’t get me wrong, they’re all seasoned professionals, and I bet they will still all have work.  What I am most bummed about is that now we don’t get to see the wonderment, high production and design values, and overall art that the team had almost created.  Unless the “King of Pop” is planning a publicity stunt and we’re all about to be totally duped, these folks are out of a gig - and we all miss out on the excellent work, reviews, trade publications, and other cool stuff that happens when a huge show hits the papers.  Patrick Woodroffe, I was looking forward to reviewing your work.  I’ll just catch the next one.

I really hope that the networks at least spend 15 seconds talking about the production.  From what I am hearing, it was huge, and pretty beautiful.  I’m sorry to Michael Jackson’s family, friends, and fans about his passing, as it blows to lose a friend - but I’m also sorry that the people who make him look and sound so good are now out of work.  I hope you folks all find new work, and in short order.

I’m Sorry to Hear About Michael Jackson, Patrick Woodroffe and Crew by Jim On Light | Licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License

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