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Monday, August 13, 2012

Enviro Utopia Today: Plant Light

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:40 AM

It's a living lamp. You control its light by touching its petals and leaves. It recalls in someways that eco-internet in Avatar.

aura by viktor kölbig from viktor koelbig on Vimeo.

Writes the inventor, Viktor Alexander Kolbig:

Interactive Light Objects are the result of my bachelor thesis. My topic was the research, analysis & development of new ways of interaction between product and human. Every Objects has its own unique way of use. The only connection between all three of them is the way how I am making the user experience light in a more poetic way than it is done with most other lamps existing in our world.

Licht, schimmendes licht.

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There aren't any wires in there. It looks like he's just changing the light manually when he touches it via some controller off screen.

Posted by Stuart0 on August 13, 2012 at 10:21 AM

The plant really has nothing to do with it except that it becomes part of the capacitance-sensing circuit in the controller base. The LEDs change color in a programmed sequence when a large increase in capacitance (your body mass) is added; you'll note it also changes when the hands touch the vase alone.

Capacitance-sensing circuitry is nothing new. Neither is a color-changing cluster of LEDs.

Posted by rob!

on August 13, 2012 at 11:02 AM

Thanks, rob! My only choice of explanation was MAGIC!?!?!

Posted by More, I Say! on August 13, 2012 at 11:13 AM

Where can I buy one?

Posted by Sandiai on August 13, 2012 at 7:48 PM

awesome. i saw a lamp like this not too long ago. the base was a planter box with a sensor board at the bottom. i didn't take any video, but this was the lamp: http://tinyurl.com/8rggygl

Posted by eden on August 14, 2012 at 12:10 AM