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Project Guerrilla Lighting

3 May 2007 15:04:07 GMT

The concept of Guerrilla Lighting was created by Martin Lupton, director of BDP Lighting, for the purpose of raising awareness of the power of lighting. Under the guidance of a team leader, each member will take part in creating transient lighting designs by using high powered torches, battery powered LED projectors, luminous dot lights and [...]

Poker Dome Challenge

3 May 2007 15:02:18 GMT

Show Partners, the company responsible for engineering and operations in collaboration with its lighting vendor, CYM Lighting, of Palm Springs, CA, chose to use Element Labs’ Versa TUBEs. Both Artistic Director Chris Runnells and Assistant Artistic Director Justin Garrone thought that the Versa TUBES would work well as one of the main design elements of [...]

Yelo Chair, Dream Body Treatments

3 May 2007 15:00:17 GMT

Yelo is an upscale New York spa that offers body treatments designed to heal and alleviate specific conditions or ailments so that you can emerge balanced and energized. The concept airs on the techie side because the treatment takes place in a Yelocab, a “patented treatment cabin” and on a YeloChair, a custom-designed luxury chair [...]

Ocean Breeze Motion Dolphin

3 May 2007 14:57:30 GMT

Ocean Breeze is an undulating segmented worm-like light that’s shaped like a dolphin, is lit up with blue LEDs, and makes strange undersea noises complete with dolphin squeaks. Yes, it actually moves and flaps its tail up and down like a dolphin. Or something. It’s marketed as some sort of romantic talisman, but we wouldn’t fire [...]

The ultimate diggbait: Digg the Physical

3 May 2007 14:49:54 GMT

The Digg button is a very simple beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontroller. Once made, this basic electronic project mimics the popular Digg.com website: each time you push the button, the button flashes “Dug” and increments the counter up to 999 “diggs”. The project is completely open source, and documented here [...]

Philips LED Technology

3 May 2007 14:29:48 GMT

LED technology is often heralded as the future of lighting - and for good reason. LEDs are easy to produce, generate very little heat, and are super energy efficient, using only one-eighth of the power of traditional bulbs and less than half that of fluorescent lights. Now our favorite avant-electronics company, Philips, has come out [...]