Ambient Orb

Information just a glance away

The Ambient Orb is a device that slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or friend is on instant messenger.

It is a simple wireless object made by Ambient devices, that unobtrusively presents information. Imagine if you had to go to your computer and type in your zip code whenever you wanted to check what time it was. Your important information should be as accessible as looking at a clock, now the Ambient Orb can make a variety of information just a glance away.

The Orb arrives set to indicate the Dow - glowing more green to indicate market movement up and red to indicate movement down, or yellow when the market is calm. If the market is up or down more than 1.5% the Orb will pulsate. It can be customized to a set of free channels, such as market indices (Dow, Nasdaq, S&P 500) or weather in select cities. Optionally, you can upgrade to access more premium channels, such as your customized portfolio, local weather, pollen count, or IM buddy watch.

There's also a developer interface where any semi-savvy web programmer can control the color of their Orb with a simple http "get" call. Track how full your hard drive is, traffic on your website, Slashdot posts, or your credit-card debt. The Ambient Orb is simply plugged into any standard 110V power outlet and it is up and running on a nationwide wireless network - no internet connection required. The Orb does not attach to a PC.


Features:

• Works right out of the box with absolutely no configuration necessary. Just plug it into a power outlet to track the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• Data is updated continuously via wireless network. No PC or Internet account required.
• Can be customized through a the Ambient Devices website or 800 number.
• French-made frosted glass housing and bright, long-life LEDs glow millions of colors.
• The Ambient Orb can also track any dynamic Internet-based information, not just general financial information. Most popular Ambient Channels for the Ambient Orb are: Stock Portfolio, Weather Forecast, Pollen Forecast and Web Traffic.