Tuesday, September 9, 2008
HomeStar Planetarium Projector
Fight the dark with Stimuli 3.0
The Chris Natt designed lamp is a device that keeps up the light level constant: this means that the spherical shape and surrounding panels have a specific function, to constantly adjust the lamp’s light levels to correspond with that coming in through the windows. The so called Stimuli 3.0 is “a lighting system whose shape and therefore light output sensitively varies inversely with the surrounding natural light intensity”, says its designer. For example, at dusk, illumination gradually increases as natural light recedes.
The device is provided at its heart with an unique 3 axis gear box that shifts and rotates the panels to either increase or decrease the brightness of the light. Therefore, the panels block out more or less light. That depends on how much light there is coming from outside.
This is a very weird lamp, you must agree, and it would be perfect for an environment designed to astonish and amuse its inhabitants. It looks like a thing of the future and it would be a great achievement for Chriss Natt to actually mass produce such an attractive prototype and to release it on market under a reasonably price. If the concept will get to see the light of the day, then the designer might consider himself a very lucky guy and make a hit.