A new app where users can link their lighting environment to a story is to be launched next year.
amBX UK Ltd is developing a Luminous Tales app, where families can download the storytelling app and, through wi-fi communication, lighting will change according to what’s happening on the page - for example it could dim when the story turns to night, or turn green if the setting is a lush jungle. It is working with artists to develop the tales and is running a Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaign to raise funds, although there’s still a long way to go.
the amBX Luminous Tales app will be launched next year. Photo courtesy of amBX
PhotonStar LED Group plc is one of the latest manufacturer to announce it is working with amBX through its Halcyon Bulb, a circadian smart lamp. The app is one of the first Halcyon compatible products. Others include the Philips Hue range. Users buy the lamp or lamps, download a piece of software that enables the control, then via wi-fi it links it up with the app and the lighting is synchronised.
The PhotonStar Halcyon lighting solution was developed following a DECC Energy Entrepreneur grant and can be controlled using any WIFI smart phone or tablet.
The Luminous Tales app is hoped to be launched mid next year.
