A partnership with Because We Can to produce a interactive coffee table that is capable of displaying millions of colors.

Materials: 3/8 acrylic, FSC Cert. Europly, 25 BlinkMs, Arduino Platform, IDC Connectors. (All electronics RoHS compliant)

This is a prototype of an Interactive Coffee Table from Coactlab.com and becausewecan.org The electronics are done by Coactlab and the furniture by Because We Can.

The table seen below will ship with distance sensors to provide input for selecting modes and defining colors on the table.

The table will be available for sale, along with another side table, through Because We Can when we get in the next shipment of BlinkMs sometime in May!

Here’s the table at IDEO Quickie called Creative Play

This is an in-house prototype of the Kelvin Slider LED Lamp.

Materials: acrylic, birch veneer, europly, and steel hardware. Laser-etched.

This was done as an in-house project for a future production model. This prototype was being worked on for the IDEO quickie event on March 26, 2008

This particular lamp features both a cool and warm white Lamina Ceramics LED.

The lamp form is made from a piece of acrylic etched with a a wood pattern using a CO2 laser.

The etching is then back painted in order for the pattern to “pop” through the clear acrylic layer.

The form is then heated in order to be bent into shape.

This is an in-house prototype of a rear bike fender.

Materials: acrylic, birch veneer, aluminum, and steel hardware.

Here it is in all its prototyped glory. The fender hardware is for mounting into a back brake mount. The mount still needs a little tweaking to make it fit properly.

This is a close up of the grain through the acrylic layer.

A little bit of detail as to the angle of the fender.

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