{"id":2454,"date":"2003-04-29T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T05:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T05:28:22","slug":"ambient-orb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/ambient-orb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Orb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For years I\u2019ve been fascinated with those space age glowing green nightlights<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had two plugged into my wall for over five years now.\u00a0 (They also only use 1\/100th of the power needed for a standard 7-watt nightlight bulb and costing only 2 cents a year to operate.) You can imagine my delight when I read about these new wireless digital devices – ambient orbs<\/a> that change colors based on information from the internet.\u00a0 It mutates unobtrusively and visually when your IM buddies come online, the weather forecast changes or the DOW goes up or down.\u00a0 I used to wonder how long it would be before we had full wall-size green light panels.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s only a matter of time before these \u201clight sources\u201d also transmit real-time visual data from the internet into our physical spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years I\u2019ve been fascinated with those space age glowing green nightlights.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had two plugged into my wall for over five years now.\u00a0 (They also only use 1\/100th of the power needed for a standard 7-watt nightlight bulb and costing only 2 cents a year to operate.) You can imagine my delight when I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[681,59,216,682,490],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-ambient","tag-design","tag-light","tag-orb","tag-product"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}