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Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs
(eternal_software) writes "A company called Vos Solutions created what they call 'a blueprint for future living' named The Vos Pad. The Vos Pad is the world's first apartment solely lit by LEDs. There are some images of the place up on their website."
I looked at this and said cool... My wife looked at it and said YUCK!!!
Just goes to show, Not for everybody.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
I'm sure there are tons of slashdotters whose apartments are already soley lit by LEDs.
Cthulhu Saves.
Already have one, sorry.
If I turn off my monitors, my apartment is also lit solely by LEDs.
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Their server isn't lit by all LEDs, cause this site is slashdotted!
Perhaps it's just that my interior decorating tastes aren't up to date :-)
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
This "electric light" thing will never catch on.
/lights a candle.
Company just released their second product: First NOC lit by flaming server. Footage at 11...
The photos make it look like an FPS game. Do you need a geforce 4 to live there??
as soon as I clicked on the link to the sight
Aaarrgh! For those spelling/grammar nazis out there, I've been writing vision research grants all day, so sight should be site. Forgive me.
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...the lights on their router are surely blinking like mad! Hopefully it won't catch fire, which is certainly a more dangerous (albeit more aesthetically pleasing) method of lighting. :-)
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I think that having that many lights strobing would have a great effect, when I invite the door to door Mormons in and convince them I gave them LSD.
Otherwise - I'd like to see a little more white light; I'm not Prince, so I don't need that much purple.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld where Jerry has trouble sleeping because of the red glow of the neon sign from the Kenny Roger's Chicken across the street.
Your colour vision would go all out of whack as you move from room to room with the different colour schemes never mind what will happen when you go outside for some sunlight (that rat fur hat might even look good).
Rapidly approaching the Zener knee...
...look like a 70's porno movie?
"Lit by LEDs, inhabited by virgins."
The coolest voice ever.
> The Vos Pad is the world's first apartment solely lit by LEDs
No natural lighting at all? Sounds grim. Wanting to get away from Windows is one thing, but this is a bit extreme.
Are you insinuating that they would feast off the light emitted from the diodes like some sort of freakish plant monster?
Cthulhu Saves.
if you have a link to a halogen lcd backlight, please post...
(meaning: there arent any)
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While the article may say that this is just a simple LED apartment, this is actually the new version of "The House of Tomorrow" at Disneyworld.
- no sig.
One thing I noticed was the LCD display over the range. At first I thought it was stupid because why would you want a tv there. Then I though well maybe you could use it as a internet appliance recipe book. But then I realized that having electronics hanging above steaming pots really is a bad idea after all. It should be moved to counter space where you would be doing cutting and mixing. You also need better task lighting in a kitchen unless you want to slice your finger off.
Having the sconces with their beams of super bright light reflecting off the wall and providing indirect lighting is very cool and is like a fusion of 21st century modern with 19th century retro since it is similar to gas lamps or candleholders. I couldn't help but be reminded of all those dungeons my 24th level Magic-user had traipsed through. However, it appears the sconces are below eye level. It doesn't take an 18 intelligence to know that is a bad idea.
The LEDs in the floor of the kitchen look like the emergency lighting in the aisles in a passenger jet. It might be useful if your apartment ever crash lands and you need to crawl to the exit through thick smoke. And I won't even go into the colors because so many people have already commented about it that it would just be redundant.
Because, as we all know, life is all about impressing women.
What, didn't you get that memo?
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Now, just to find a way to integrate this into my apartment without the landlord having a seizure (literally!)... hmm. There isn't much heat in our bedroom, but with a decently overclocked Barton and a stock Palomino in custom cases, we don't get cold toes ;)
I wonder if the boss will let me convert from fluorescent at work...
One of the 187.
Sounds like the ideal place to shoot a porn movie.
If you ask me the designers got it spot on.
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Those arent the LEDs you should looking at.
Wait just a second,... is this some sort of Jedi mind trick?
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But really, it's kind of cool. But I think I'd shoot myself if I had to live there.
Besides, it's all relative. If cost efficiency was the defining goal behind everything, we'd all be eating no-name brand macaroni and Ramen for food, riding bikes to the office, and wearing sweats and t-shirts...
I was just thinking "Now what kind of dumbass would do all that just to save a buck?" as I ate the last bit of my store brand macaroni while sitting here in sweatpants.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Or any number of other tv shows featuring unrealistic and impractical lighting in pastel colors that real people would almost never want in their home/workplace. Bleah.
Because there wasn't any juice left for their server ;-)
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