Ikea's Varmblixt lamp showed up at CES 2026 with new smart features. Now that I've tried it, I'm not letting it go.

This automatic light system in Minecraft uses smart redstone mechanics to turn lights on and off without manual control. It’s a practical addition for survival bases or modern builds, helping keep ...

Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the rest of us. A new "smart lighting" system for indoor vertical farms grants ...

Apple in macOS Tahoe 26.2 introduced Edge Light, a clever new feature that turns your Mac's display into a virtual ring light during video calls. Instead of fumbling with external lighting equipment, ...

Abstract: An automatic Staircase Lighting (SCL) system using Arduino was designed and developed to enhance energy efficiency, safety, and convenience in residential and commercial buildings. The ...

A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on complex problems such as protein folding (for drug discovery) and number ...

Early in the game, you might come across a door that tells you that it requires the Storage Room Key to be opened. Unfortunately, this key requires you to go on a bit of an adventure to find it.

Tips from experts who know dark winter days — and design — like no others. By Alexa Brazilian Alexa Brazilian lives in Newport, R.I., with her family in a house that was built in 1710 and has no ...

Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

A VLC system consisting of a transmitter and a receiver was constructed, and a serializer/deserializer using 8B13B coding was implemented on an FPGA. The data modulated onto the LED light were ...

Apple is aiming to improve your appearance on video calls with its latest MacOS 26.2 update. It has rolled out a feature called Edge Light, which is a video effect that creates a virtual ring light in ...