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Opehn Lamp Design by Flavio García

TheFuture — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:06:45 +0000

The superb design of OPEHN Lamp concept leaves the wires outside, giving the lamp an impression to be naked. The designer has used energy saving LED bulbs to make it even more efficient and the bulbs have been placed in a shameless manner too. However, the bulbs are decorated with petals which give the lamp an organic appearance with the wires to be some growing vines of a tree. The petals have been placed in different angles so that it can lighten in all directions equally. The round base is designed to be well balanced and keep the lamp stand still in even and uneven surfaces.

Designer : Flavio García

SouldBulb Combines Lighting and Sound to Tickle Your Sense

TheFuture — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:32:44 +0000

There are various lighting and/or sound products available in the market, but most of them are very direct and serves a particular task efficiently. SoundBulb is an outcome of a competitive product market research across a wide range of exciting lighting/sound products. This concept utilizes both lighting and sound into one product and the final design features a bulb like shaped speakers that can be enhance the décor of your household as well as increase the functionality. The combination brings together the sophistication, ambient and elegance of lighting and sound in order to form a product that tickles our sense more than a single way.

Designer : Hoang Nguyen

Lux : Fashion + Green Technology

TheFuture — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:26:59 +0000

Lux is an innovative technology brought to you by Mae Yokoyama, a Konstfack student, that shows the means of getting benefited from the sun and how to turn energy into beauty. This is actually a necklace that comprises solar panels in order to accumulate energy from the sun during daytime. This accumulated energy then is used to lighten the LED bulbs to give an appearance of dazzling pearls of this fashionable necklace. This useful product will help people realize the value of sun and will give a feel of elegance to fashion concerned personnel. After charging for two hours only, the pearls can remain on for a minimum of four hours.

Designer : Mae Yokoyama

Philips Master LED Bulb

TheFuture — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:38:41 +0000

The Master LED bulb from Philips has the same form as an old-fashioned one, making it simple to use for the people and feel comfortable about using it. Even though the bulb draws 7 watts only, it gives off light equal to a 40 watt bulb and lasts around 45,000 hours which about 30x the length of a normal bulb. This Master LED bulb is available in Europe already and should reach the North American shores before July.

Designer : Philips via [Gizmodo and Core77]

Moonlight Globe Lights for Your Pool

TheFuture — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:07:00 +0000

Moonlights are manufactured by Germany’s award winning “Moonlight – Globe Lights” for offering luxury seen at the finest resorts all over the world. These are not normal round shaped bulbs but these are a new line of contemporary light fixtures made up of shatterproof polyethylene. These lights are globe shaped and are available in different shapes and sizes from 15 to 30 inches. You can use them for home interiors with assorted changeable colors as well as for outdoor such as a floating model for your pool. Moonlights are surely going to shine your house or resort with a unique and fresh look.

Designer : MoonLight

FrogWare Light Bulb Design Offers Better Energy Efficiency Than CFLs

TheFuture — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:55:07 +0000

This is not an ordinary bulb but it is known as a LED bulb recently created by Frog Design to provide more sustainable lighting choices. They have used LED lights because they believe that LED lights tend to produce a lot of heat and are less influential than incandescent bulbs. They have created Led lights inside a glass fixture that looks like incandescent bulbs. The power LED is set inside the bulb which dissolves its heat to the aluminum base. The main concept behind creating this bulb is to make it easy for the consumers to change their light bulbs.

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Our original goal was to improve the CFL bulb, both in color and usability, but the technology to do so was not obvious. We began to explore colored filters and realized that any filter would reduce the lumen output. We then looked into adding LEDs to change the overall color output. This led us to the realization that florescent lights have huge environmental drawbacks. CFLs use ballast, which contains mercury, electronics and plastic housings. Most consumers just throw fluorescents out with the trash, even though they should be disposed of as toxic waste. CFLs are not dimmable and therefore use their maximum light output each time they’re turned on. In addition, the form and cold color of CFLs keep them from being widely accepted as a replacement to the incandescent bulb.

As our ideas began to focus on combining LEDs with a fluorescent, we sketched several forms that tried to create harmony between the two technologies. The idea of creating a separation between work and home life through the modulation of the color output drove some of our early forms. As soon as we chose to use only high-output LEDs, our forms changed significantly, rendering the old concepts no longer valid.

As designers are inclined to do, we started to create beautiful forms that revolved around the advantages of the new technology and the form factor it lent itself to. This may have been our biggest wrong turn. With LEDs, that form was flat and thin; but this would not solve the problem we had defined for ourselves. To create the biggest impact on society, this design had to keep the barriers to acceptance as low as practical—which in part meant no super-sexy, fluid designs that would only be found in high-end design stores. Any unnecessary styling would cause a rift in its mainstream acceptance.

We realized the easiest way to create acceptance was to deliver the technology in an already widely accepted form. The form of a standard light bulb was then the obvious choice. It would not ask consumers to change their form of power, their light socket or replace the lampshade attached to the bulb. And it underscored the notion that good design is about solving problems for the whole ecosystem of the product.
Designer : FrogDesign

Orb WiFi Router Concept

TheFuture — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:25:21 +0000

It is hard to build a WiFi environment, while we can see there is a huge demand of WiFi hotspots nowadays. That’s where Orb take place as WiFi router solution. Using Orb as your router, you don’t need any cables, easy to setup and really efficient. Orb is taking advatage of light bulb location which usually located in the center of the ceiling, making it a perfect place to setup your wireless router.

Designer : Richard Choi