Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sights fantasticA well-established trend in domestic lighting is to use smartphone apps to\u00a0manage complex LED set-ups, fine-tuning their colour and intensity to create violet bathrooms, cerise utility rooms and \u201cscenes\u201d that can change by the hour or on a whim. By contrast, Italian design firm Mandalaki substitutes that granular control with a\u00a0single powerful lamp emitting a consistent, unfluctuating radiance \u2013 effectively an indoor lighting installation. \u201cWe don\u2019t want people playing around too much [with them],\u201d says co-founder Enrico De\u00a0Lotto. \u201cAfter all,\u00a0when you buy a painting, you don\u2019t then\u00a0paint over\u00a0that painting.\u201dIt\u2019s a\u00a0gorgeous artwork\u00a0with a\u00a0sky-gazing qualityThe firm has its roots in designing lighting installations in Milan. De Lotto created his first prototype by combining high-performance LED filters with arrays of\u00a0old optical lenses he\u2019d inherited from his grandfather, an ophthalmologist. He then set himself the challenge of creating similar, large-scale effects in smaller spaces using compact hardware; this resulted in a range of lamps, made from anodised blocks of aluminium, which cast nature-inspired lighting effects across walls and ceilings.The Halo Mini, a scaled-down, table-mounted version of its larger lamps, became one of its bestsellers, and the Mini Landscape range (just launched at Milan Design Week) is its latest incarnation: three\u00a0distinct models that each project a specific, linear colour gradient but with real\u00a0three-dimensional impact. Horizon evokes the view of a sunset from an aeroplane, Sunrise recreates the Dolomites dawns of De Lotto\u2019s childhood, and Vice is\u00a0inspired by the pink, humid skies of Miami.Practically speaking, the\u00a0Mini is a stable, solid unit with a tiltable head (allowing you to extend that\u00a0linear gradient up the\u00a0wall) and a dimmer (Mandalaki\u2019s one\u00a0concession to user control). The size of\u00a0the projection is roughly double the distance you place the\u00a0lamp from the wall,\u00a0so 75cm back will\u00a0give you a display around 1.5m across.\u00a0But\u00a0calling it a display undersells it; it\u2019s a\u00a0gorgeous artwork\u00a0with a\u00a0meditative, sky-gazing quality \u2013 something you\u2019d never hope to achieve with a bunch of LED lamps, no matter how much you fiddled with the settings.\u00a0Wales songFred Davies has been building and refining full-range, horn-based speakers in the Welsh countryside for five decades, and this is the culmination of that work. Faithful musical reproduction is achieved with just two drivers (one dedicated to deep bass below 70Hz) and a unique arrangement of\u00a0horns, tubes and chambers that dictates the speakers\u2019 almost sensual shape. They\u2019re constructed from glass-reinforced cement and fibreglass with a ceramic glaze finish (you choose the colour), and they sound as extraordinary as they look, even when fed from a comparatively modest amp. Chrome castors and weather-resistant jackets encourage you to wheel them\u00a0outside to create the ultimate patio sound system. Now you see me\u2026Huge television screens can dominate a space and feel oppressive when they\u2019re turned off. But this one, housed in a freestanding unit, becomes transparent when you hit standby. That\u2019s down to OLED technology; with no backlight needed, LG has sandwiched the pixels between transparent layers. Between off (transparent) and conventional watching mode (a thin blackout layer rises up\u00a0behind the OLED) there\u2019s a\u00a0middle ground, where see-through screensavers or information can be displayed, seemingly hovering in space.\u00a0Thanks to a neat cable management system and an\u00a0LG Zero Connect box (which sits up to 10m away and handles connectivity to gaming consoles, etc), it wins the prize for the least obtrusive 77in TV in existence. The life holographicNew York-based Looking Glass makes a range of spatial displays for showing off 3D images, and the USB-powered Go is its smallest, a smartphone-like 6in model with a built-in, fold-out stand. Assemble a\u00a0playlist of your digital photos using Looking Glass\u2019s software (iOS, Android or via\u00a0a browser) and they\u2019ll be synced with the Go as 3D holograms. Thereafter, your images display with a new and striking depth, moving on about every 10 seconds (or you can tap a button on\u00a0the base to pause on a particular image). Snap the Go into the bundled frame, pop it on a shelf and it becomes a unique showcase of personal memories. And 3D creators using Unreal Engine or Unity, for example, can use it as a display for testing. ThunderstruckAustrian firm Pro-Ject has become the go-to partner for\u00a0musicians wanting to incorporate their branding into high-spec turntables. Its back catalogue, hand-built in Europe, includes beautifully styled commemorations of work by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Metallica and the Vienna Philharmonic, to name just a few. The latest features AC\/DC\u2019s lightning bolt logo along with a red-glass platter, a sub-platter with red LED lighting, a flat acrylic tonearm and an Ortofon 2M Red cartridge. Audiophiles may shudder (high-end audio is usually more understated) but\u00a0this is heavyweight kit, meticulously designed to eliminate resonance, provide rock-solid playback speeds and showcase any collection of vinyl (not just hard rock from Australia). @rhodri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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