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Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

MrMilo — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:48:25 EDT

While I'm not the world's richest raver (see Dr. Memory's comments), I actually own a pompom wall dimmer. I have it, because I thought it would look cool on my wall (it does!) and I wanted to see how it would work. I will admit there is a slight learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a bit addicting. Everyone that visits has to play with it.

MrMilo

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

Trackback — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:09:49 EDT

The Essential Wall Dimmers offer a new and colorful way to adjust the lights in your home. All you have to do is tap on the tufted textile sensor and it turns on, off or dims your lights. Each dimmer is handcrafted in Seattle, WA from Designtex wool felt, conductive yarns, neoprene, and acrylic.

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Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

GottaGo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:28:35 EDT

You could put them on the floor. Then stomp-on; stomp off. I like.

GottaGo

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

stifled — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:05 EDT

It'd be nice to have one of these in a media room. Want to dim the lights more? Just throw something at the wall.

stifled

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

Doctor_Memory — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:10:28 EDT

feh, sorry about the double post. I swear, I waited 20 minutes for the first one to show up before trying again.

Doctor_Memory

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

Doctor_Memory — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:09:51 EDT

Oddly enough, I've seen these before: they were installed in a room of the Cooper Union museum in NYC as part of an "Extreme Textiles" exhibit a few years ago.

The texture is pretty much carpet-like, but the problem is that they really don't work very well. I had to run my finger over them multiple times, pushing pretty hard, to dim the light it was connected to in the exhibit. Unless you're the world's richest raver, you should probably keep hold of your old mechanical rheostats.

Doctor_Memory

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

Doctor_Memory — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:42:14 EDT

A prototype of these was installed as part of an "extreme textiles" exhibit at the Cooper Union museum in NYC about two years ago that I saw. The texture on them is more plush-animal than brillo-pad, but they frankly didn't work very well: I had to run my finger over them multiple times to get the lights in the exhibit to dim. I wouldn't recommend running out and replacing your mechanical rheostats with these unless you're the world's richest raver.

Doctor_Memory

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

wyldhoney — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:30:00 EDT

Why would anybody want this?

wyldhoney

Soft Touch Light Dimmers Turn High Tech Into High Touch

drbles2010 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:09:45 EDT

Um...??? Ok... I'm not sure how practical that is unless it's in a kid's room. Even then...waste of money? I don't know.

drbles2010