Philips LivingColour Mood Lamps
Counting on the popularity of the LivingColors lamp, Philips has announced the second generation of the trendy lamp to set the mood in contemporary spaces. Capable of producing 16 million colors through a combination of seven LEDs, the latest version of the LivingColors lamp will illuminate with 50 percent more intensity. Controlled by a touch-sensitive remote, the new LivingColors lamp comes in an opaque version with a metal stand, allowing a more concentrated light beam in comparison to its predecessor. Priced between £100 and £180, the lamp’s options include a choice between a standing lamp, a wall lamp and two ceiling lamps according to the needs and likings of the user.
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Floating Lamp – UFO Lighting
Employing magnetism technology, the UFO Lamp from Baita Design is an unconventional lighting that as its name suggest levitates in the air to illuminate your living place. Encasing a lens made in ABS plastic, bulb and magnets in an aluminum dome, the UFO Lamp works in tandem with a stainless steel base that also houses magnets and electronics. Featuring foot controlled buttons, including power, up, down and polarity inversion, the lamp floats above the magnetic base to set the mood with its magnetizing elucidation.
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Geometry for Lampshades
Dror Benshetrit‘s Volume.MGX lamp created using 3D printing techniques, which “would be impossible to produce using more traditional manufacturing methods.” Dror applied squared square geometry to one flat, 3d, sls print of interlocking squares. When illuminated, the beauty of the complexity of the shape is highlighted through the various effects the light has on the hundreds of squares that make up the collapsible form. The light is diffused in a way that gives the structure a bright, warm glow in the center, which gradually fades into cooler, darker shades on the edges and corners of the cube.
Solar Walls for Ambient Workplace Lighting
Revitalizing the conventional confines of the traditional workspace, designer Jenny Redd has come up with an innovative room divider that other than providing privacy, also harnesses solar energy to run the office. The “Solar Wall,” as the designer hails the divider, utilizes a new kind of solar technology, wherein dye-sensitized solar cells are printed onto the glass, to provide electricity to the workspace. Capturing energy in its screen-printed honeycomb pattern, the freestanding room divider stores solar energy in its base, where power outlets are provided to juice up and run the electronics. The up-to-the-minute technology helps you accumulate not only the direct sunlight but also the indirect ambient light to power all the gadgets in the office.
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