Cool Lamp Monday - Belated
I've been working on this website a lot lately, backend stuff involving the responsive bit that will eventually make it look a LOT better on mobile devices. So this post is a day late.
I love dichroic glass. This lamp cleverly uses dichroics to play with the colors of light, the colors changing...
Cool Lamp Monday
Via Better Living Through Design comes the Goccia Suspension Light, a beautiful piece of lighting art. The website says the colors were inspired by those found underwater. They claim "unique diffusion" patterns of the material the lamp is made from - something called Opalflex - but I think it's...
Maximum LED brightness
Via CarbonLighthouse comes an interesting discussion of just how many lumens per watt (LPW) we can theoretically get out of LED emitters. Spoiler: 683. And only at one wavelength, a practical color-changing entertainment fixture will have to contain different types of emitters at different wavelen...
TMB Firefly
Well, TMB went and made the Firefly, a product I drew the basic idea for about a year ago, though mine was based on an EL wire instead of LEDs to get the true "glowing filament look".
The basic idea is to take a power-hungry but beautiful 3200 Kelvin light source and get the same light and...