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 KINETICS BY PHILIPS

Como será a sua casa em 2013? Em uma época em que a tecnologia evolui mais rápido que a vida útil de um iPod, responder a esta pergunta pode ser um tanto complicado. Mas algumas pistas do que está por vir estão espalhadas nas tendas brancas sob a recém-construída – e moderníssima – ponte estaiada da marginal do rio Pinheiros, em São Paulo. Na mostra The Simplicity Event, evento da Philips que já passou pela Holanda, Inglaterra, Estados Unidos e China, cinco ambientes exibem os protótipos e produtos-conceito que a fabricante de eletroeletrônicos holandesa espera que você use daqui a cinco anos de uma forma tão natural quanto é usar hoje um rádio de pilhas. Em comum, todos tentam aliar tecnologia a um belo design para atender de forma simples os desejos de consumidores de todo o mundo.

Cada espaço da mostra é dedicado a um tema. No Ouça o seu corpo, a idéia é prevenir o que será mais difícil e caro de remediar depois com aparelhos que promovem uma vida mais saudável. Luz e sons também ajudam nesta tarefa, como ajudam a entender as estações Cuide do seu corpo e Relaxe a Mente. Nelas, aparelhos usam freqüências de luz para despertar, relaxar e energizar seus usuários, enquanto outros tornam os ambientes da casa mais confortáveis e divertidos.

“Nada de inércia” é o lema do espaço Mexa o seu corpo, em que pisos interativos e paredes luminosas entretêm as crianças enquanto seus pais se exercitam com um personal-trainer virtual. E, na era da hiperconectividade, não poderiam faltar os aparelhos mostrados na estação Compartilhe Experiências, como o porta-retrato digital que envia e recebe fotos e uma tela sensível ao toque criada para enviar e receber mensagens de texto e vídeo. “Nem todos estes produtos irão para o mercado”, diz Stefano Marzano, diretor mundial de design. “Nossos testes mostram que alguns atendem a um público mais amplo, e são estes que levaremos à frente”.

Aparelhos com funcionamentos e formas tão diferentes têm todos um mesmo conceito por trás: usar a tecnologia para criar um estilo de vida mais harmonioso. Desde 2004, este tem sido o lema – e a estratégia de negócios – da Philips. Isso significa inverter o paradigma da tecnologia pela tecnologia em nome de uma abordagem mais humanizada com tecnologias sintonizadas com as necessidades de pessoas comuns. “Não somos mais uma empresa orientada para tecnologia, mas para o consumidor”, diz Geert van Kuyck, diretor mundial de marketing da companhia.

Esse foco diferenciado está dando certo para a empresa. Avaliada em US$ 7 bilhões, a Royal Philips Electronics já ocupa a 42ª posição no ranking internacional de marcas mais valiosas do mundo elaborado pela consultoria Interbrands. A empresa foi eleita a 38ª mais inovadora pela revista Business Week em 2007. “Nos últimos cem anos, as empresas se esforçaram para criar a próxima grande onda e todos seguiam atrás”, diz van Kuyck. “Nos próximos cem, será muito mais importante entender primeiro os problemas dos consumidores para só então trazer soluções na forma de produtos”.

Confira abaixo uma galeria com os principais destaques de cada estação da mostra:

PINTANDO O SETE: com Drag & Draw, pintar a parede é permitido. As crianças escolhem as cores no balde eletrônico, que projeta na parede os traços feitos com uma caneta especial. Depois, elas podem adicionar som e movimento aos desenhos

CONFORTO: Na sala de estar do futuro, o conforto não vem só do sofá. Luzes coloridas e sombras são projetadas para gerar sensações e complementar o clima criado com o sistema de som moderno (sobre a prateleira) que mais parece uma obra de arte

ESPELHO, ESPELHO MEU: o InForm avalia o peso, gordura e hidratação do corpo do usuário e mostra os resultados e até dá informações sobre o período fértil feminino por meio de uma tela que parece um espelho quando desligada

RELAXE: o Soft Therapy reduz a tensão muscular com uma combinação de calor, massagem vibratória e raios infravermelhos. Como o colete não tem fios, pode ser usado enquanto se anda dentro de casa. E é tão fino que dá para colocá-lo embaixo da roupa

VOCÊ TEM UMA MENSAGEM: o InTouch é a versão moderna do quadro de recados. Com a sua tela sensível ao toque, dá para escrever nele com uma caneta especial e enviar recados via internet para os amigos. Também permite gravar mensagens de vídeo

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Woman works to light up Boston’s skyline

One woman is working on painting parts of the Boston skyline’s canvas with light.

Lana Nathe of Light Boston, and 30 other lighting experts, want to add modern lighting designs to structures around the city. They hope to thrust Boston further into the international spotlight.

Nathe has already made her impact felt – she re-lighted the Old North Church for former president Bill Clinton’s visit last fall.

Light Boston’s long-term goal is to light nine buildings known as the “Diamond Necklace.” Short term, they are focusing on the Convention Center.

While Phillips will donate some of the supplies, including energy-efficient lightbulbs, Nathe hopes the rest of the bill will be paid for with private donations and grants.

Light Boston, Inc.’s mission since 1996 ,is to illuminate 25 Historic Boston bldgs “permanently” – one of these buildings is included in the illuminate Boston’s First Festival of Light, which will temporarily illuminate 10+ bldgs & bridges along the Seaport & Fort Point Channel in Boston in mid October founded by Lana Nathe in 2007.

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About Energy Conservation

Energy Efficient LED Lighting and Technologies

Rapid advancements in LEDs and the global need for energy efficient lighting alternatives are creating opportunities to replace conventional light sources with LED lighting for general illumination. LED lighting is gaining momentum for many reasons, and chief among them is energy efficiency.

With the landmark signing of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and other nations similarly devoting resources to energy conservation, the potential impact of LED lighting is increasingly gaining national and global attention. A 2001 Department of Energy study estimated cumulative savings of $98 billion by 2020 once LED lighting reaches the performance crossover with conventional sources. Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions believes this day is approaching faster than ever anticipated.

Today Philips’ energy efficient lighting systems deliver big visual impact without the big energy drains. Yet LED lighting can achieve energy savings on a much larger scale as it becomes more applicable to general illumination. With the introduction of EssentialWhite™ and IntelliWhite™, Philips now addresses specialty white light applications while developing systems that will meet the growing opportunity to cost-effectively apply LEDs for general illumination.

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Energy Costs
Energy consumption reduced from 8,000 watts to 600 watts total

The Ponca City Memorial Fountain has long been a community focal point, engaging residents and visitors since its construction in 1925. When the fountain was last renovated in 1980, the lighting scheme called for 250-watt incandescent fixtures with red, green and blue lenses to create colored effects. This resulted in a maintenance challenge and little ability to actually control the illumination.

Cost of Light

The opportunities to replace conventional lighting with LED lighting for general illumination are growing, fueled in part by the continual advancements in LEDs and the global need for energy-efficient lighting alternatives. Performance is an important metric for assessing the viability of replacement by LED sources. These devices that once merely lit calculators and cell phone displays can now illuminate an airport terminal or a 100 foot building façade. They increasingly match or exceed the efficacy of conventional lighting sources, particularly with the advent of today’s power LEDs. In fact, the efficacy of LED sources, measured in lumens per watt, is eclipsing that of incandescent and halogen sources.As a result, Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions’ systems are displacing conventional lighting methods in a number of applications where LEDs were previously thought impractical. And this exciting trend continues. Performance is improving rapidly in the intensely competitive LED supplier field where current data from these manufacturers shows LED performance ahead of forecasted levels, and the cross over point for matching the efficacy of fluorescent sources outpacing the predictions made just a few years ago. Yet performance is only one metric.Matching the cost of conventional lighting is another critical element for replacement to occur. The true measure of cost goes beyond just the initial cost of the lighting system and incorporates lifetime and operational costs as well. For example, an incandescent source may only have an initial cost of fifty cents, yet its energy consumption will cost more than ten times that over its relatively short life, when a new source must be purchased and the cycle starts again. The metric that accounts for all of these factors is called the Cost of Light. This is the measure that sophisticated customers, such as those managing large buildings, use to compare the true cost of illumination. Intelligent LED lighting systems are intersecting the Cost of Light of incandescent and halogen sources and are rapidly approaching the economic cross over point for fluorescent sources. A white paper is available for more detailed information.

These are Philips estimates, and are not indicative of future performance. Decreasing operational and lifetime costs, together with improved LED performance, enable a wide spectrum of new applications.

 

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CUSTOM BUILT ANDALUSIAN STYLE VILLA, BUILT IN 2004, SPECIAL VENETIAN PAINT, FANTASTIC 2 STORY ON A CONCRETE  STEEL FRAME CONSTRUCTION, BALCONIES IN EVERY ONE OF THE 5 BEDROOMS, HURRICANE FILM by 3M,PRICED TO SELL $10K BELOW BANK APPRAISAL,POOL WITH SAFETY FENCE , VERY PRIVATE,THE MOST EXPENSIVE LG APPLIANCES AND CUSTOM  FINISHES, 18′- 21′ FOOT CEILINGS WITH EASY WALK TO THE COCONUT GROVE VILLAGE.

OFFERED AT $1,290.000.EASY TO SHOW.

WEEKLY RENTAL $4500 – $5000, MONTHLY $13000.

WALKING DISTANCE TO COCONUT GROVE VILLAS, HIGH END SHOPPS, RESTAURANTS, EASY DRIVE TO BEACHES, PERFECT FOR SOMEONE THAT HAS A YATCH, CLOSE TO COCONUT GROVE MARINA, EASY WALK OR DRIVE TO GOLF.

 

Being in Coconut Grove, the entire area is Edenesque with a profusion of palm, banyan and oak trees as well as huge flowering bushes. The garden has a tiled pool, and terraces for sunbathing, dining or relaxing in the shade and at night, the illuminated garden and pool is an enchanting area for dinner. The villa is built on two level with the bedrooms having direct access to the garden. The cool, contemporary interior has four large bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom downstairs with an attractive lounge, with marble floors.

Automatic entrance gate, Swimming pool: 26 ft (8 m)

South Beach: 15 minutes, airport: 20 minutes, beaches: 15 minutes, golf: 25 minutes, tennis: 10 minutes.

 

 

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ALYSON SHOTZ

Displayed at the ground floor of the SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM is the mesmerizing panel made of cut plastic Fresnel lens sheets and staples, designed by ALYSON SHOTZ. A Fresnel lens is a type of lens invented by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, originally developed to focus the beam in lighthouse lamps. Fresnel lenses are used in the lens of traffic signals and to shape the light beam in overhead projectors as well as in molded plastic versions which are sometimes placed on the rear windows of motorhomes to broaden the drivers rearward field of view.

From http://science.howstuffworks.com: “The basic idea behind a Fresnel lens is simple. Imagine taking a plastic magnifying glass lens and slicing it into a hundred concentric rings (like the rings of a tree). Each ring is slightly thinner than the next and focuses the light toward the center. Now take each ring, modify it so that it’s flat on one side, and make it the same thickness as the others. To retain the rings’ ability to focus the light toward the center, the angle of each ring’s angled face will be different. Now if you stack all the rings back together, you have a Fresnel lens.”

SHOTZ’ work is made of thin commercial type of Fresnel lens sheet of bendable plastic cut into circular or oval pieces and stapled together cascading from the roof to the floor. This installation is part of a special exhibit called THE SHAPES OF SPACE which “makes visitors aware not only of the ways in which space is manifested within art but also the different ways in which art can engage its surroundings and reorient the viewer’s own position within space.”

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The sculptor’s thrilling and seductive work suggests a world beyond our grasp

Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future assembles 14 works made since 1980, a period in which Kapoor’s sculptures and installations have grown increasingly ambitious and complex. The first U.S. museum survey of Kapoor’s art in more than 15 years, and the first ever to be seen on the East Coast, the exhibition premieres a new resin sculpture and features many pieces on view for the first time in this country.

In the hands of sculptor Anish Kapoor, forms become at once monumental and evanescent, present and absent, physical and ethereal. Whether using the materials of classical sculpture like stone and bronze or newly applied forms of aluminum, pigment, enamel, resin, polymer, and PVC, Kapoor’s sculpture seems to disappear, dissolve, levitate, or extend beyond a space the viewer can perceive.

The sculptor, born in Bombay and based in London, is perhaps best known in the U.S. for Cloud Gate, a permanent 110-ton sculpture of highly-polished stainless steel created for Chicago’s Millennium Park, and Sky Mirror, a breathtaking, 35-foot-diameter concave mirror that was shown in 2006 at Rockefeller Center in New York. Kapoor emerged as one of a highly inventive generation of British sculptors during the 1980s, and since then has created a body of work that has married a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space.

PAST , PRESENT, FUTURE

HEXAGON MIRROR

 BRANDY WINE

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Nike’s Radical New Olympic Riding Boot

It’s not yet clear how tradition-bound equestrians—or Olympic judges—will view the iconoclastic footwear

by Jay Greene

The Olympics & Innovation

Instead of a vertical zipper on the back of the boot, Nike designed one that wraps around the calf Nike.The century-old spur system was replaced with a titanium screw-in model that was easier to install and adjust Nike

 
U.S. Olympian Amy Tryon will wear Nike’s Ippeas boots at the Games Carolyn Djanogly.When Nike (NKE) unveiled new footwear for athletes in all 28 sports at the Olympic Games, one of its offerings prompted skepticism: an equestrian boot. One rider opined on a Web site that it looks like “the stripper boot of the horse world.” U.S. Olympic rider Gina Miles wonders if wearing a swoosh might lead to lower scores in a sport that prides itself on centuries-old traditions. And Nike archrival Adidas, which is also creating new shoes for the Games, said no to riding boots. “We didn’t feel we could come in with some meaningful innovation,” says James Carnes, Adidas’ creative director.

Nike insists its offering, dubbed the Ippeas (Greek for “rider”), allows for better performance than hand-cobbled leather boots. It used its Air Zoom cushioning—a staple in its sneakers—in the sole to make the boot more comfortable. The century-old spur system was replaced with a titanium screw-in model that was easier to install and adjust. Instead of a vertical zipper on the back of the boot, Nike designed one that wraps around the calf. There’s also grippy rubber on the part of the boot that touches the saddle to improve handling, as well as red piping and a shiny heel for flourish.

The world will get to see the Ippeas on the feet of U.S. rider Amy Tryon, a bronze medal winner at the 2004 Athens Games, as well as on the 14 members of the Chinese equestrian team. Tryon says the snug fit gives her greater control over her horse than any other boot she has worn. “If nobody tries to push the envelope, nothing changes,” she says.

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 
 

 

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Ao longo de sua história a Intermarine percorreu uma trajetória de grande sucesso, marcada por produtos que revolucionaram o mercado náutico brasileiro.
 

 

A Intermarine sagrou-se como uma marca de respeito, qualidade e prestígio. Acompanhando a evolução dos seus produtos, renovou o espírito da sua marca com a introdução de novos logotipos.

A Intermarine é o estaleiro líder em lanchas de alta performance no Brasil. Fundada em 1973, já produziu e comercializou mais de 5000 embarcações, consolidando-se como a marca de maior prestígio dos mares brasileiros.

Somos o único estaleiro no mundo a obter a Licença de Fabricação de Barcos do renomado estaleiro italiano Azimut Yachts , uma parceria que permite construir no Brasil embarcações homologadas e perfeitamente adaptadas as nossas condições de clima e mar. A Intermarine constrói a mais ampla linha de embarcações do mercado náutico brasileiro, de 38 a 98 pés. Estabelece, a cada lançamento, novos padrões de estética, engenharia e tecnologia, em sintonia com o que existe de mais moderno no mercado náutico mundial.

MISSAO & VISAO

Muitas qualidades definem uma embarcação Intermarine – design inconfundível, performance excepcional, sofisticação, alta qualidade de construção, assistência técnica eficaz e uma vibrante experiência ao navegar. E é a combinação de todas essas características que torna a marca Intermarine tão única.

Proporcionar aos nossos clientes momentos inesquecíveis, a bordo de um dos melhores barcos do mundo. A experiência única de desfrutar de uma Intermarine é resultado de produtos criados com paixão, qualidade, talento e criatividade. Superar-se constantemente e ser reconhecido como o melhor e mais distinto estaleiro de embarcações de lazer da indústria náutica brasileira

Excelência – Buscamos incansavelmente a qualidade máxima em produtos e serviços.

Garra – Superamos os desafios com determinação e comprometimento.

Evolução – Aperfeiçoamos constantemente nossa empresa, produtos, serviços e colaboradores.

Capital Humano – Os nossos colaboradores são os elementos mais importantes para a construção de uma empresa de sucesso.

Responsabilidade – Agimos com consciência social e ambiental.