Electroceramescent Lighting
March 8, 2007 at 5:35 am 1 comment
Electroceramescent lighting is the latest breakthrough in solid state lighting technology. It offers thin, durable, and energy efficient lighting with unlimited application potential in versatility for all indirect and backlit designs without generating any heat.
This intriguing technology holds some potential for the kind of visual display that “seeing energy” might benefit from.
Check it out at Firefly Lighting Innovations
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Bill Stillinger | April 2, 2007 at 9:06 pm
When I first met Janine Benyus is 1996 at a private gathering in Atlanta, I was pleasantly awed by her insights around Biology, Biomimicry, and Biomimetics.
I met her again at a SoL conference last week (by coincidence in Atlanta again) shortly after having listened to Jamie Wolf speak at NESEA’s Building Energy 2007 conference in Boston.
Jamie envisaged the walls of a room responding to people’s presence (and, I guess, to their energy usage). Then I thought there might be a biomimicry connection to make this easily happen: it’s called “pigment-free color”, and the biomimicy.org website says this about it:
“The feathers, scales, and exoskeletons of iridescent birds, butterflies, and beetles have structural features that cause light to diffract and interfere in ways that amplify certain wavelengths. This creates brilliant colors to the viewer through the use of structure rather than the addition of a chemical pigment. Imagine, instead of painting a product, simply adding surface layers that play with light. Thin-film interference of this sort can create color that is 1) four times brighter than pigment, 2) never needs repainting, 3) avoids the toxic effects associated with pigment mining and synthesis. The first products from this research include Morphotex, a pigment-free fiber produced by Teijin ( Japan), and a low-energy, sunlight-readable PDA screen from Qualcomm (USA).”
So my question is whether these materials/technologies can be manipulated to become part of the dynamics of a space?
Bill Stillinger