Datacasting to your orb, refrigerator or umbrella
An MIT spinoff company is taking information and transforming it into a glowing orb. What's an orb, you ask? It's a round, frosted-glass lamp that's about the size of a softball. Inside it are LEDs which can glow any color of the rainbow.
Ambient Devices created the orb. CEO David Rose says the orb tells you anything you want to know by tuning into a wireless network.