Tanya Vlach Wants to Grow A Bionic Eye
Tanya Vlach is looking for someone to help her invent a "bionic" eye that has a camera inside. Watch this: Tanya is looking for donors and engineers to help her create an experimental project...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Francis Robbins Upton!
Whoa! It's time for Mr. Culture's birthday – and here he comes, Mr. Culture himself, Francis Robbins Upton! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDE! (We're all sorry you're dead man, we'll have a drink in your honor....
View ArticleHappy BELATED Birthday, Frank J. Sprague!
There were a few birthdays over the weekend that I totally missed, and now I feel horrible! Oh wait, both of these people are dead. Hmm. Yeah. HEY, so HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Frank J. Sprague! Check...
View ArticleBLAZE – Laser Safety Sign Projection for Your Bicycle
Ok, first – this is so effing cool that I am excited to try to DIY my own for those times when I'm out biking in the dark. My good buddy Erich Friend from Teqniqal Systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth...
View ArticlePRG's BEST BOY 4000 – A JimOnLight.com Exclusive
You know all of this press that's been going out about PRG's new fixture, Best Boy 4000? All of this talk of Swiss Army knives has got me sleepy. JimOnLight.com has exclusive video of BEST BOY 4000...
View ArticleZeiss OLED Cinemizer Glasses
I just found this crazy article on Engadget about the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer glasses. Have you seen these things? (This image opens up HUGE if you want detail…) So these are OLED, HD glasses with some...
View ArticleStarfield from Lab212 – Interactive Swinging and Stars!
Good Morning, World! To all that will stumble upon this page in "error," I wasn't referring to THAT kind of swinging! We can thank Lab212 for something absolutely awesome – Starfield. This equation...
View ArticleNieuwe Heren's Aegis Parka Warns You about Pollution with Light
Dutch designers Nieuwe Heren make another appearance on JimOnLight.com! You might remember them from their very cool Deconstructed Floodlight about a year ago. Meet the Aegis Parka — a jacket that...
View ArticleInteractive LightBoxes from Enlighter and Light Act
I got an email a little while ago from Mitja Prelovšek who runs the lighting website Enlighter. (Sorry I haven't posted this yet Mitja, I'm in just released software land!) Enlighter did a project...
View ArticleGetting to Know the LED Ellipsoidal Generation – A JimOnLight Series...
I've done a lot of shows in my career so far. I'm lucky as hell, don't get me wrong – but because of it, I feel like I have a real "bond" with incandescent and high-intensity discharge lamps (HIDs)...
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