| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Tesla launches Tesla Energy line of batteries for homes, businesses, and utilities | | | Via CNN Money | | | Tesla has unveiled a suite of new energy products, including a wall-mounted battery that will be sold for use in consumers' homes. Tesla is calling the rechargeable lithium-ion battery the "Powerwall." More»
Why This Matters: Will cost $3000-$3500 to installers. This article focuses on how it will collect store energy from the grid during off-peak hours. This article gets into it's role as part of a solar system. Pun intended. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | CrowdGlow: lighting venues using mobile phones | | | By Paddy Baker, Installation | | | Do you remember the Opening Ceremony at the London 2012 Olympics? One very memorable feature was the 'pixels'—paddles at each seat with embedded LEDs which together formed a giant canvas for lighting and video that brought the audience into the show. Now, a new company called CrowdGlow is looking to provide a similar experience using audience members' mobile phones. More»
Why This Matters: The lighting designer uses an iPad to communicate with an unlimited number of phones via Bluetooth. This is a killer idea—if it works—because today's audiences and AV users are anything but passive. No more standing in awe or sitting in silence. No matter what it is, they require bidirectional communication. It's participate or go home. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | High tech light shutter could help turn your windows into LED displays | | | By Dario Borghino, Gizmag | | | Researchers at the Pusan National University in South Korea have developed an advanced light shutter that can rapidly switch between transparency and opaqueness in less than a millisecond, paving the way for OLED displays that become see-through at the flick of a switch. More»
Why This Matters: This is not actually new, but it's worth another look due to how cool it would be if it can be commercialized and just due to the electronic trickery at work. -Cynthia Wisehart |
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