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Point-Altered Illuminators

'As Much as You Need' Lamp Provides Customized Light at Your Fingertips

— November 19, 2013 — Art & Design
Technology is advancing enough that devices can now be designed with much more intuitive and natural controls. The 'As Much as You Need' lamp does not have a standard switch or a dial to enable you to alter its settings; gestures are used interact with this light fixture.

The desk lamp has quite a futuristic form about it, with a long and slender frame that appears to cantilever impossibly across your work surface; the metallic arm extends into a horizontal track of LED lights with a touch-sensitive feature. Guide your index finger and your thumb along Hongkue Lee's illuminator, making pinching and spreading motions. A pair of hands can even overlap down the spine of the lamp, creating points of intensity or longer stretches of luminescent emission.
Trend Themes
1. Gesture-controlled Lighting - The 'As Much as You Need' lamp showcases the trend of using gestures to control lighting fixtures, offering disruptive innovation opportunities in the home automation industry.
2. Intuitive Design - The lamp's sleek and futuristic design demonstrates the trend of creating products with intuitive controls, opening up possibilities for disruptive innovation in the consumer electronics sector.
3. Customizable Illumination - The ability to adjust the intensity and position of the lamp's light points highlights the trend of customizable illumination, presenting disruptive innovation opportunities in the interior design and lighting industries.
Industry Implications
1. Home Automation - Gesture-controlled lighting presents disruptive innovation opportunities within the home automation industry, allowing for more seamless and intuitive control of lighting systems.
2. Consumer Electronics - The 'As Much as You Need' lamp's intuitive design offers disruptive innovation opportunities in the consumer electronics industry, attracting consumers looking for futuristic and user-friendly products.
3. Interior Design and Lighting - The customizable illumination feature of the lamp opens up disruptive innovation opportunities in the interior design and lighting industries, as it allows for personalized lighting solutions that enhance the aesthetic of spaces.
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