Horizon
Rethink, Reset, Reborn, with light, with sound.
Horizon is a Lighting Decor with built-in speakers that brings mindfulness into the environment. With the help of the app, it syncs up with your daily schedules which allows it to track your work/rest time and guides you to take breaks between working periods.
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Mental illness brought by tech
In the world we live in, excessive information and notifications coming from electronics are constantly interfering with our ability to focus, and they’re also causing some mental health problems. Information overload and smartphone addiction are the two most common situations.
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Sense of time
In schools, or churches, bells will ring every hour, not only is it set to let people know the time, but it’s also giving people a sense of time. The feeling of time passing is subjective. “Live every day as if it’s the last day of your life.”, that’s the sense of time, and from time to time we wish we were reminded.
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Features of Horizon
Sound of 432hz bell ring:
The 432 frequency music heightens perception and increases the mental clarity of a person.
Breaths of fresh air:
Breaks are proven to have very high influences on brain performance and other
areas of well-being.
Magic of light:
Light can affect one's energy state tremendously.“Get up to work at sunrise and
retire at sunset.” The ancient Chinese
saying indicates that light
has a strong relationship with
work. By having the lighting adjusted to the most fitting brightness for the scenario, it could help people zone in faster.
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Light+
Speaker
It’s a light fixture, a speaker system, and an online meeting system with smart features to better organize your time and promote phycological well-being.
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Features
Outer light ring:
The outer light ring provides indirect lighting that creates a soft atmosphere light for the environment.
Inner light ring:
The inner light ring provides direct lighting that draws attention and creates better camera graphic for meetings,
Speaker:
Speaker is embedded in the lighting fixture for entertainment, meeting, and rings for the rest /
work reminder feature.
Microphone:
The microphone is embedded at the
the lower portion of the fixture for phone talk.
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Light and sound
reminder
With set reminders, the system will perform different lighting effects accordingly
and it will ring according to the calendar.
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Applications
Home office:
Working from home could be very tough for the user to differentiate work time and rest time. The reminder system could help the user better utilize their time during work time and have a better balance between working and resting.
Regular Office:
In regular offices, the fixture’s primary job would no longer be the lighting. Its main purpose will be decorating the space, ringing, and changing the light according to schedules that
people have in common like having lunch, break time, getting off work, or even meeting time.
Livingroom/ lobby:
A piece that creates decorative lighting and sound.
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The APP
Horizon
The app comes with integrated daily schedules and light-adjusting features. With the schedule linked to Horizon, the light will adjust to your daily schedule like bedtime, wake-up time, work time, rest time, or even breakfast time, lunchtime, or dinner time.
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Manual light adjustment
Although it’s linked to an app with light adjustment capabilities, It could be adjusted manually. Both inner light and the outer light rings could be adjusted individually by spinning either the inner part of the fixture or the outer part of the fixture.
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The menus
The app is constructed into Four main parts- rest, work, sleep, and light adjusting. The app will recommend the user's rest time and sleep time based on the work type and age. The insufficient amount of sleep or rest time will be marked red on the last image.
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Work/
Rest schedule
After the schedules are properly set up, the app will show a clear graph of what your day will look like and you can go into the Rest/Work feature to set how much portion of your work time do you want to rest, and Horizon will help you get into the Work/ Rest zone by ringing the bell and dimming or brightening the light.
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Other features
Individual events can be adjusted or added on their own and so is the sleep time. The inner and outer light can be adjusted separately by the app. Move the circles to chance the brightness and move the bars connected to the middle circle to adjust the lighting area.
