MooresCloud Light runs Linux, puts LAMP on your lamp video  Yes,
we'll admit that we borrowed that pun in the title. MooresCloud
founder Mark Pesce's Xzibit reference is still a very apt
description of the Light, his company's Linux-based LED lamp.
The Australian team's box-shaped illumination runs the open OS
(including a LAMP web server stack) on an integrated mini PC
with an accelerometer and WiFi. The relative power and
networking provide obvious advantages for home automation that
we've seen elsewhere, but it's the sheer flexibility of a
generalized, web-oriented platform that makes the difference:
the Light can change colors based on photos or movement, sync
light pulses to music and exploit a myriad of other tricks that
should result from a future, web-based app store. When and how
the Light launches will depend on a Kickstarter campaign to
raise $700,000 AUD ($717,621 US) starting on October 16th,
although the $99 AUD ($101 US) cost is just low enough that we
could see ourselves open-sourcing a little