dim bulbs

Right. You have to pay for the ring power on one of those new fangled phones.

See track 14 of this compilation:

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Les Cargill

Yes it is more likely but some screw up one type of these bulbs means it has full access to your network but the bulb isn't cryptographically protected in any way. A researcher demonstrated it was possible to use this flaw to gain full access to your network - turn the lights back on? No. Steal you credit card, banking details and passwords - yes.

Three seconds of air time, Rounded up to the next full minute, of course :-)

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Of course! :>

I suspect things like lighting will evolve to watching for "activity and presence" in the areas affected. I did a job at an IBM facility in the mid 70's where the lights in the offices automatically shut off if they didn't detect any activity for N minutes. Homes would be much easier to address as there are outlets and switches damn near

*everywhere*... hard to imagine NOT being visible to one of them *somewhere*!

Exactly. People have a "firewall mentality" -- AT BEST -- when it comes to SOHO (et al.) security. Put a Pwn Plug on the premises (would *you* notice one hiding on an out-of-the-way network drop? Or, *in series* with your desktop machine -- disguised as an outlet strip??) and sit back...

We still sit in chairs and sleep in beds and eat critters off plates. Doors and tables and hats haven't changed remarkably in 1000 years.

It amazes me that the car engine - crankshaft, pistons, poppet valves, spark ignition - hasn't really changed in almost 100 years.

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snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz pretended :

And they are likely popular because their wierd/special design leaves them outside the ban on common incandescents in at least some/most juristictions so they are legal to import/make and sell. :-Z

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Yeah, that worked *so* well. On the weekend you'd have to wave your hands around in the air every so often or sit in the dark. It was particularly interesting in the washroom (where partitions blocked any possibility of waving at the sensor).

The X10ish system worked much better. Each office had a code written on the fixture. A phone call and the code entered on the keypad turned on the lights. The drawback was seeing the code but in one's office that wasn't a problem.

Give Obama another four years.

Nope. That's got nothing to do with it. The light is crappy. The clear bulb and filament pattern (there are several) is "interesting" looking.

See:

Very cunning design, low power and nice low, colour temp.

Heaps of them about so I bet that is what JL is seeing.

... Phil

I'll bet he's talking about these.

The ones we had at Watson were acoustic, so all you had to do was wave the door a bit.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

What about the Wankel?

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Yep. High tech doors, chairs, and beds are not exactly on everyone's priority list. Still, there are an amazing variety of electric, iris, rolling, sliding, air knife, revolving, etc doors. Doors can be made with everything from natural fiber to hardened steel and still be called a door. As I vaguely recall, the OSHA definition of a "door" is something like 60 pages long. Most of what is today considered a door, didn't exist 100 years ago. While doors certainly are similar to what was used during the middle ages, the construction methods, materials, and functions have dramatically expanded during those 1000 years. The same applies to tables, chairs, hats, and beds. Granted, there haven't been any revolutionary changes in their fundamental functions, but certainly there have been evolutionary changes.

let the bed bugs bite", the "sleep tight" refers to the straps laced across the bedframe that was used before the invention of the modern box and spring mattress. The straps had to be regularly tightened or you ended up sleeping at the bottom of Einstein's gravity well. I would say that the mattress might be considered a remarkable improvement in bed design.

Ummm... Wankel, turbine, supercharger, turbocharger, hybrid, electric, amphibious, flying car, rocket car, etc. I almost forgot the nuclear powered car: While many of these have not been particularly successful (allegedly because of various conspiracies), they have all produced fundamental changes in engine or vehicle design. For example, smog regulations forced a change from carburetor to fuel injection, with the incidental benefit of improving gas mileage and performance.

As for eating critters, we have expanded our diet to include literally everything that might be considered a hydrocarbon which is not a taboo. Many artificial foods are literally mined and produced from petroleum and coal tar derivatives. Whether this is good or bad remains to be seen. For example, many vitamins are made from petro-chemicals. See the chart about half way down the page: Vitamin C is made from "Hydrogenated sugar processed with acetone". Yummm. Perhaps the major edible critters may not have changed much in the last 1000 years, but the way they're prepared, and the availability of artificial substitutes, has greatly changed what and how we eat.

Back to dim bulbs and retrotech. There is always a fascination with old technology. Besides the nostalgia and the good old days, old stuff tends to be non-threatening. Nobody is going to lose their job by a product that emulates a 19th century lightbulb using LED's. However, some people might perceive the Zigbee controlled color changing LED light, as a threat simply because they don't understand how it works and is used.

We also tend to color code our lives. The red end of the spectrum is for danager. The blue end is for relaxation. The green area is for outdoors. The yellow and orange is for construction. More: etc. Don't be surprised if none of these agree or sound much like a horoscope. Color psych is not an exact science.

I've participated in product coloration studies and can assure you that companies take color very seriously. The same is true for some restaurants. If they want to set a particular mood, the coloration will to create that mood. A classy restaurant, which expects its patrons to spend considerable time at the table will try for a relaxing mood. However, the fast food dive, which wants a high turnover to clear the tables during the busy times, will do what it can to make patrons comfortable, but not too comfortable. Hard plastic seats, noisy background music, frequent noxious floor wipes, and of course, garish colors, are what works.

So, what color works best in a restaurant? In my never humble opinion, red-yellow. It's the color of an open fire or torch, which over the last million years, we've become very accustomed to sitting besides and enjoying our meals.

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No, I'm seeing bulbs with zillions of skinny filament wires. Definitely incandescent.

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Nope. The product is quite real and has changed a few times since the Kickstarter campaign.

1017 lumens, 17 watts consumption (60 lumens/watt). 130 degree beamwidth. Approx 2,700K - 8,000K color temp range. Works with NEST Protect.

Buy online: About $100/each (including shipping) in singles. OUCH!

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