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The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.

Read More about the Khronos Projector (text taken from there site)

Paul
Cocksedge has managed to fuse art, electricity and light together to
form some very creative pieces. Take “Watt?” for example:
Watt? is designed with purity in mind. The elegant switch is based on the natural conductive properties of the graphite found in pencils.
Connecting two points with the a pencil line completes the circuit and
the light is switched on. When the line is rubbed out the light is
switched off.

Even better is the crystal and laser
chandelier, composed of a Swarovski crystal that catches and splices
the light all across the room, along with a vase that lights up when
there’s a (live) flower present. As Paul’s portfolio requires an access
code to explore, MoCo Loco’s your best bet for good pictures and
details.

Crystallize [MoCoLoco]
Artist Page [PaulCocsedge]
[Via gizmodo]

by Greg Tate

How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? In our version of
the future, the things we loaf about on indoors will be as beneficial
as the stuff that grows out back. In the meantime, sculpt lawn
furniture from the lawn itself. Unlike your standard-issue sofa, this
lush greenery is totally organic, requires no synthetic finishes, and
can be brought to life, Golem-style, from salvaged dirt. St. Augustine
tiles create a seamless, living upholstery, or try wheatgrass for a
durable alternative. Ask your nursery about planting tips unique to
your sod. Note: Couch may require mowing. Read more…

[Via readymademag]

Sometimes all you need is a simple subversion of an everyday object to give yourself a “David Blaine” moment.

This time, it’s a balloon lamp. Just tear the packaging, blow up the balloon and throw in the LED and there you have it – a cool, affordable lamp.

Plus,
with a simple lithium coin battery, you could possibly use it for over
a hundred hours continuously and you don’t have to deal with messy
wires.

[Via sensoryimpact]

This may well be one of the best bath plug’s ever! Alessi “Mr. Suicide” Floats reaching for air, tethered to the bottom of the tub.

Direct
from Sweden, Parans shows off their Skyport system: light-collecting
panels which you install on your roof, allowing them to feed a remote
part of your house with the purest of natural light. The Skyport system
uses SunWire—”light transporting cable” (read: fiber optics)—to bring
sunlight to its connected “luminaries”. Björks, as they’re called, are
specially designed to generate a light output of up to 4,000 lux,
presumably on a clear day. The SunWire allows for you to distribute
sunlight up to three stories down into a building and the Björks come
in three different shapes, letting you maximize light output for a
particular room’s layout. Pricing and availability are heretofore a
mystery, so you’ll have to wait for now.

(Update: Marcus Fransson from Parans was kind enough to share
the price list with me. A SkyPort unit costs roughly $4,500 (less
shipping) which includes 15 feet of SunWire. A large Björk comes in at
around $1,200 and a small one is $420. They ship directly from Sweden,
and they’re available now.)

Product Page [Parans via MoCoLoco]

[Via gizmodo]

Digital Persistence of Memory.
Inspired by Salvador Dali’s melting clocks, this digital clock
prototype designed by Ross McBride has a silicon exterior that’s soft
to the touch. Details include a power cord that run out the bottom of
the clock so that it can be concealed by a tabletop or shelf. Other
designs include the electro-luminescent Time Table (reminiscent of de light), and the multi-functional Swiss Army Table. Via Wrist Fashion.

DESIGNER: Ross McBride
LINK: normal.as
LINK: wristfashion.com

Continue reading… Via MocoLoco

The Solar Powered Wallpaper was created by embedding electroluminescent materials into the pattern of the wallpaper and incorporating a light sensor.

The wallpaper responds to the lighting requirement of a room, acting as a decorative element when a room is naturally bright, and as a wallpaper light when the space requires more light. With power supplied from a solar charged battery or standard electricity, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity. It was developed by Marta Lwin, with Ty Whitfield, Teresita Cochran, and Ramakrishnan Subramanian during the Sustainable Energy Class at ITP. The work is on show at the Interactive Multimedia Culture expo, on April 14th - 23rd, at the Chelsea Art Museum, in New York.

Via: WorldChanging

[by Justin Thomas]

Modular lighting system by Ross Lovegrove.
There’s more to the Yamagiwa:Lovegrove collaboration.
SystemX is an X-shaped lighting module that can be interconnected with
other SystemX modules to create lighting structures. “The product can
be specified for both private and public use, beginning with small
dimmable configurations for above the dining table to large open
expanses that can create zones of different temperatures of light in
collective or singular modules.”. Via Dezain.

+ yamagiwa.co.jp

[Via mocoloco]