Cherryflava

Play with your light

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Proximity engaged public lighting [lights that you can play with] is a big turn-on for us here at the Cherryflava HQ. Some members of the team actually stash copies of LED lighting catalogs under the small arsenal of guns that we store here. It’s like Scope magazine for nerds. So this installation You Fade To Light by rAndom International for Philips Lumiblade. and video is now being played on repeat [with much excitement] in the office.

You Fade To Light” allows the audience to engage with the light itself intuitively and in a physical way. With custom software developed by designer Chris O’Shea, it has been built in London with several hundred unique OLEDs from the world’s first-ever production line for OLED lighting at Philips in Aachen, Germany. [via]

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Freaky LED tattoos

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

They’ve finally invented technology that will turn your body into a billboard.

Researchers are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.

Here we thought augmented reality was a big thing on a cellphone. Next thing you know your eyeballs will be injected with crystals that polarized when you go outside. It’s freaky tech, but we’re fascinated to see where it goes.

More: How LED tattoos could make your skin a screen – Wired