
A.i.R. Project from Bandai brings “Art in the Room”
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We’ve been covering the growing market of home lifestyle products being put out by companies that, for many years, focused entirely on toys for children. Sega, U-Mate, Bandai, Takara Tomy, and more have been slowly growing product lines that appeal to the 30+ generation that grew up with gadgets and has cash to spend.
The new A.i.R. Project (Art in the Room) from Bandai is a perfect example of how lifestyle and wellness goods are growing in quality as well. Costing over $600, the ambiance-creating light system is digital art for the consumer, and was created by artist Taro Suzuki who has done many similar large-scale projects in ...
Bandai develops blowing interactive LED light A.i.R Project
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Designed by Taro Suzuki, a Japanese media artist - this A.i.R. Project by the more famous Bandai (Japanese toy maker), is a well churned out blend of art and lighting to fit into the gadgets genre. Taking a leap out of the more discreet image of a toy maker it has adorned for decades, this overpriced gadgetry, which uses square shaped holes emitting blue light in various patterns, throws Bandai into a new league of more resolute names in technology. The LED-lit blocks in the A.i.R Project has mini fans embedded, which with the use of internal sensors on touch, help the air gush out of the squares to push up the cloth. Weighing about 1.7kg, measuring a ...
A.i.R Project Light Sculpture
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A.i.R Project Light Sculpture
The A.i.R project (meaning Art in the Room) is a device that costs over $600. It is a complicated device which sits in your room and generates light patterns.
Each of the squares is home to a an LED which keeps it lit and a mini fan that when triggered blows air to move a cloth which hangs over it. A mixture of the cloth movement and light changes makes the light sculpture come alive.
Kind of a crazy way to spend $600 if you ask me A video demonstration can be found below.
Via: Trends in Japan ...


