Heat sensitive lights turn on/off with your presence

A few months back I wrote an article (for the love of god…I spent an hour looking for it…no dice.) about some cool light technologies. The lights you see were able to be turned on/off by text message. The reasons for such an action are easy to see — drastically reduced energy consumption being the prime reason. But the fine people of France are removing “manual” human interaction from the equation all together.

Just recently, a 500-meter stretch of the Allée Camille-Soula was retrofitted with heat sensitive lamps. Instead of having to text a certain lamp’s number of group of lamps’ numbers, all you have to do in France is walk into the proximity of said lamps and poof, instant light. Such uses of technology make so much sense it astounds me more communities don’t implement such things. If the pilot program along the Allée Camille-Soula in Toulouse, France proves successful (read: enough costs are recouped and further dollars saved), the heat sensing lights will be rolled out to the rest of the city and it’s 450,000 inhabitants.

Now if we could only get that flying car we’ve been waiting for…

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