This is incredible. None of the effects you see in the video above by Bot & Dolly were made in post production—everything you see was captured in camera. Which is incredible, because it looks absolutely unreal. The trick was using a perfect projection-mapping system that could be beamed onto moving surfaces, in this case moving canvases. It’s a combination of performance art and digital art. I can’t get enough.
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By now our smartphones have become a constant bedside companion for most of us. But Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer over at the London-based Raw Edges Design Studio have come up with a way to make them more than just an alarm clock replacement. They’ve created a series of very clever concept docks that turn your smartphone’s flash into a bedside lamp while it’s charging.
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Bedtime could become less of an uphill battle with your kids if you replace their regular nightlight with this colorful, spinning, animated lamp that brings a series of animals to life. Using a simple lenticular animation effect, the effect is almost hypnotic, and should put anyone to sleep in no time.
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Given Philips’ addiction to LED lighting on both its Ambilight TVs and its hue wireless lightbulbs, it’s a surprise it took the company so long to cook up the Ambilight+hue system in the new Elevation TV. Announced back in July, the 60-inch Elevation builds on the existing Ambilight system by hooking in the rest of […]
The advent of online shopping has also meant an increase in flat-pack product designs that are cheaper and easier to ship around the world. Usually there are design sacrifices involved—see Ikea’s product line for example—but Spain-based design studio Kutarq came up with this novel design for a lamp that’s easy to ship but doesn’t skimp on functionality.
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The Construction Lamp by Joost van Bleiswijk is a tribute to industrial structures—and as a result it looks rather like its made from the Meccano you played with as a child.
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Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! Today we’re talking docks. Head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back; in early September, we’ll be giving away a ton of gear, including some of the picks in our guides.
Plug and play… and then party in your dorm. That’s how the kids do it nowadays, with their iPods, iPhones and Android devices connected to virtual libraries of stored and streaming music. But unless you’re rocking an HTC One with BoomSound, the dinky speakers on your daily driver just aren’t going to adequately pump out the late-summer jams. For those at-home boogie breakdowns, you’re going to need some serious hardware. And lucky you, we’re here to sort through the clutter and highlight the best back to school picks for any budget.
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Good news Star Wars fans. The automatic sliding doors at the grocery store are no longer your only opportunity to experience what life as a Jedi must be like. Dresden, Germany-based design shop Dreiplus has a new under-the-cabinet lamp called the AREA that lets you selectively illuminate and extinguish its LEDs with just a wave of your fingers. Who’s living in a fantasy world now?
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No one wants to be told what they can and cannot do in their home, even when it comes to lamps. So someone has finally found a way to stick it to ‘big lighting’ with a lamp that you can install almost anywhere. Our deliverer of illumination freedom is an artist named Simon Frambach who created the Soft Light from squishy polyurethane foam, allowing you to cram and squeeze it into any spot.
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At first glance it looks like a giant, industrial, animated chandelier hanging over your head. But instead of just illuminating a room with its imposing glow, artist Conrad Shawcross’ Timepiece doubles as a modern take on the sundial. Because unlike the ancient clocks that kept our ancestors on time, this one doesn’t need the sun at all.
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