AMBIENT: Mood Lights

Ambient mood lights change physical environments into emotional experiences using sound, color, movement, and light. Their goal is to make the world calmer by communicating information in a pretty and serene way. The plan for Ambient started from the tremendous and never ending information we're constantly bombarded with that ultimately leads to stress and a feeling of never getting to relax. Ambient realizes that everyone has different needs when it comes to the information they care about the most. For example, some people want to know how their stocks are doing, others need to stay in touch with an aging or ill family member. Some are more concerned with the weather for their vacation and still others are waiting for the email about the new job opportunity. Ambient believes that this kind of information should be able to be accessed with a mere glance, similar to the way we read the clock on the living room wall. The products that Ambient designs are elegant, futuristic, and usable. They engage sound, air pressure, motion, light, smell, and other media that work with out innate senses in order to communicate information.

So for those of us who think that the future is still far away, it's time to recognize that it's happening right now. Ambient is a company that makes products their customers enjoy - really enjoy - using. Ambient has managed to take everyday info like the weather and turned it into an en emotionally responsive experience that people look forward to encountering. Gotta love technology.