Gizmodo: mood lighting

Coway's Daan Air Purifier Freshens a Room While Freshening a Room

Jason Chen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:20:00 EDT

These Daan air purifiers from Coway are some of the best looking air purifiers we've ever seen. The ones we've had are like Danny Trejo: workmanlike in its ability to get the job done, but very very ugly. The Daans are the opposite of ugly, and can cover a 161 sq. ft. room with a single unit, or more if you stack a few together. There's even a bonus mood lighting function in case you somehow trick a lady into coming home with you, which seems as likely as you importing one of these from Korea. [Appliancist]

Motorlight Variable Spread Uplight: Moodlighting for Lighting Perfectionists

Kit Eaton — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:52:00 EDT

The world's first variable-angle uplight is apparently what Motorlight from designer Jake Dyson represents. Twist the the wheel on the side, and you adjust the geometry inside the lamp so the beam it casts is a broad splash on your walls, or a neat spotlight. And it can cycle from one to the other automagically. Lighting fanatics, like me, will be thinking "neat! dynamic moodlighting," and will admire the simplicity of the design. Since Motorlight is made in limited batches of 500, though, its high-quality design is matched by its high-quality price: $980 each. It comes in five colors though, with special coloring on request. [JakeDyson via Dezeen]

Yamaha's YST001 Home Theater Speakers Are Home Lighting Units Too

Kit Eaton — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:44:00 EDT

Yamaha has teamed up with lighting experts Koizumi to create these home theater speakers with built-in lighting. Each unit has three 25W halogen lamps that are remote control-dimmable down to 20% brightness, designed to reduce the contrast between your TV picture and the wall behind to "ease the burden on your eyes." So, a kind of one-color, non-reactive ambilight then, but the effect they produce is pretty subtle and saves you from installing moodlighting.

The 47-inch high units have a 70Hz - 35kHz response, and will cost around $1,250, but there's no info on availability. [Yamaha and Akihabaranews]

Torn Disguised Lighting Looks Like Slits into Parallel LED Universe

Kit Eaton — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:18:00 EDT

Designer Billy May has come up with his Torn Lighting concept as a discreet way of adding some light to your apartment. The installations conceal LED lights, and look like you've got some kind of weird space-time holes torn into your walls and leaking light into your room. Pretty neat, and a nice way of getting mood light from LEDs without the risk of you being dazzled by their exposed faces. Now if only there was a way to animate the walls to get a proper rippling effect... [Yanko Designs]

Multicolor LED Panel Won't Get You Laid

Charlie White — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:15:27 EDT

Indulge yourself in the blinkenlights of the '60s with this Multicolor LED Panel, harkening back to science fiction movies with computers consisting of panels of blinking lights, and maybe even tossing in a shade of Andy Warhol. And hey, this thing has LEDs in it. It's not as big as you think, though—at just 10 inches tall, its atmospheric effects are decidedly local. Still, it's kind of a cool accent light for $34.99. [Think Geek]

Banpresto Aquapict Jellyfish Aquarium

Mark Wilson — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:00:05 EDT

FACT: Every bedroom needs multicolored mood lighting. Why not let the Aquapict Jellyfish Aquarium take care of that for you?

Three silicon jellyfish float randomly, their soft flesh illuminated by LED bulb. One of 12 colors will tantalize the ~~senses~~ eyes as you go Deep...Sea Mode blue.

After two hours of intense pleasure, the Aquapict will be turned off...not by you...but by an automated timer. Though your cologne is really overdoing it. Because any gadget with mood lighting is pretty much "a sure thing". $156 – Mark Wilson

Product Page [via bornrich]