At this year’s 100% Design Event, designer Yu Jordy Fu created ‘cloud walk’, a nine-meter-long white recycled paper chandelier inspired by ancient Chinese paper cutting techniques.

These three examples of reactive lights got us thinking about how far night-lights have come from their humble origins as candles and tiny, single-bulb lamps plugged into wall sockets.

Motion sensor: While traditional night lights stay on all night regardless if anyone is in the room, the Philips SpotOn only turns on if motion is detected. Leaving the light off to save energy when it’s not needed.

Motion & Photo Sensors: The Datexx ZenLight LED uses photo sensors to emit a dim glow in dark settings and a bright light when motion is detected.

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Lights On is a synchronized light and sound installation on the exterior of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. There are 1085 LED controlled windows to coordinate with the sound playing from speakers around the building.

[today and tomorrow via swissmiss]

Media architecture collective, Urban Alliance, recently installed what they call “interactive urban wallpaper” in a pedestrian tunnel in Amsterdam.  Made from 2,500 LEDs set behind a ribbed, semi-transparent wall, the lights react to people’s movement as they they walk through the tunnel.  In addition to making it less vulnerable to graffiti, the curves in the wall also enable the images to be seen more clearly from outside the tunnel.
Urban Alliance is composed of Dutch architects Studio Klink, production company Illuminate, artist Matthias Oostrik and design and construction firm Cube.
[via Dezeen]
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