Jul 30 2008

Magical light control

Tag: Interaction designadmin @ 7:29 am

What if you could operate your light by your hands but not actually touching it? Only pointing at it would be enough, or what about blowing the light out like a candle? In the following video you can see that someone is operating the light switch. But this is technically possible, as we wrote earlier about controlling games with your body.

Costs and the relatively low advantages are the problem for bringing such products to market. It would probably require twice as much energy, but for disabled people this is certainly a solution. Imagine someone without hands having to turn off and on his lights with has feet all the time, while he can just blow out the light! For the smarter guys among us, turning the light on could be achieved by whistling?

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

Via Next nature and Joris van Gelder (congratulations Joris van Gelder with his second article here, see also his buttonless remote)

http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/sphinn_48.png http://www.interactiondesignblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/twitter_48.png
Trackback this post

2 Responses to “Magical light control”

     Add karma Subtract karma  +0
  1. Adrian says:

    I am actually developing a product called Magic Light, which allows the user to manipulate a beam of light with their bare hands:
    http://www.foldingbaguette.com/magiclightvideo

    Any feedback would be appreciated, adrian [at] foldingbaguette dot com

    Adrian

  2.  Add karma Subtract karma  +0
  3. cotton panties says:

    Nice Video ! If you could control any magical element what would it be? what you say about it?

Leave a Reply