Dyson Sphere lighting: Chris Natt's Stimuli 3.0 lamp
Conceptual sci-fi cocktease though it certainly is, the Stimuli 3.0 lamp is the desk lamp of Darth Vader, the pulsating hyperdrive core of reality-skipping aliens, the unfolding lantern of the Autobot Leadership Matrix, the outer coating of a Dyson Sphere digesting the energy of a swallowed sun. The idea of the Stimuli is simple: the outer panels are adjusted in response to daylight to maintain a constant level of light in any room. That's a neat function, but I don't care: it's just the looks that would prompt me to a heartbeat purchase if this were actually available to buy. But it isn't, alas.
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Beautiful! It's precisely things like this that make me pine for the hopefully forthcoming age of personal fabrication via 3-d printing. Lots of custom CAD work here to be sure. Of course, if there were a way to design/construct something of this kind by hand, that would also be wonderful.
Anyone know of any techniques that might be appropriate for manual fabrication of such a wonder in the comfort of one's humble apartment? Making it all of metal and glass (decopunk!) comes to mind, but that would certainly require at least journeyman level trade skills and a well stocked workshop, no?
Very nice. Not much light coming out, but very preeeeety nonetheless.
And *GASP* a designer's website that's actually navigable!
If apple made a light... this would be it...
Hey, it's Frylock's computer!
If anyone is interested... Natt will be exhibiting the Intelligent Lighting at the Papadakis showroom in Shepherds Market during the London Design Festival which runs September 13-23.