Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer to recieve customized multitouch gesture control

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/ubedsc07575.jpg" /><br />Here's a cool little addition to the increasingly competitive world of home automation. Ube's got a WiFi Smart Dimmer that utilizes multitouch functionality to control the the lights in your house -- use one finger to turn off a single light, or use two to turn off a set. The company picked SXSW as the venue to announce the forthcoming launch of customized gestures for other smart devices -- in the example given to us by CEO Utz Baldwin, a user can input a "W" to turn on the sprinklers -- or an "A" plus up swipe to turn on an alarm and an "A" plus a down swipe to disable it.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Sadly, the functionality won't be available for the launch of the first generation, though it's likely to come in time for the second generation, along with a software update for early adopters. Interested parties can support the company via Kickstarter right now -- Ube's a bit over halfway to its goal of $280,000, with 24 days to go. You can also watch Baldwin discuss the product and today's news in a video after the break.</div><div class="post-gallery" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><h3 class="title"><b>Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer hands-on</b></h3><br /><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07564_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07567_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07570_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07572_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07573_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/dsc07575_95x95.jpg" /> </div></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="349" id="viddler-73eb430b" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="//www.viddler.com/embed/73eb430b/?f=1&offset=0&autoplay=0&secret=108673814&disablebranding=0&view_secret=108673814" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="545"></iframe></div>

Ube WiFi Smart Dimmer to recieve customized multitouch gesture control

  Here's a cool little addition to the increasingly competitive world of home automation. Ube's got a WiFi Smart Dimmer that utiliz...

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Lighty paints real lighting Photoshop-style, minus the overdone lens flare (video)

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Lighty paints realworld lighting Photoshopstyle, minus the excess lens flare video" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/lighty.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">It's not hard to find smart lightbulbs that bow to our every whim. Creating a well-coordinated light scheme can be difficult without tweaking elements one by one, however, which makes the Japan Science and Technology Agency's Lighty project that much more elegant. The approach lets would-be interior coordinators paint degrees of light and shadow through an app, much as they would create a magnum opus in Photoshop or a similar image editor. Its robotic lighting system sorts out the rest: a GPU-assisted computer steers a grid of gimbal-mounted lightbulbs until their positions and intensity match the effect produced on the screen. While Lighty currently exists just as a scale model, the developers plan to work with life-sized rooms, and potentially large halls, from now on. We're all for the newfound creativity in our lighting, as long as we can't mess it up with a Gaussian Blur filter.</div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/id8Md7sw2Lc?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Lighty paints real lighting Photoshop-style, minus the overdone lens flare (video)

  It's not hard to find smart lightbulbs that bow to our every whim. Creating a well-coordinated light scheme can be difficult without...

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