Philips Shows Off Green Tech Prototypes, Including Smart Light Pole 'Blossoms'

Categories: Elsewhere in the Tubes, Environment, Innovations

Philips recently unveiled their version of a green-tech future at a Moscow conference, including an intelligent LED street pole system that looks like a flower opening up to the skies.

The so-called 'Philips Light Blossoms' charge up on solar and wind power during the day, light up when people stroll by at night, and to conserve energy, dim down when the streets are solitary from dusk 'til dawn.

For the last few years, Philips' Simplicity Event

Here are some of Philips' other 'future life' scenarios found at the conference: has been the place where the company thinks big and throws up a bunch of design concepts at the wall to see what sticks, as well as a preview of gadgets they’re actually working on. However, putting up a Green Tech event in the middle of one of the world's largest beneficiaries from oil production makes it seem a bit shady. But that's a story for another blog.