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Roli's pro Lumi marries keyboard tradition with expressive MIDI features
Roli has unveiled a Lumi Keys Studio Edition for pro musicians that lets you glide and stab keys to produce unusual effects.
Roli’s light-up, learn-to-play Lumi keyboard is available for pre-order
Roli's crowdfunded Lumi keyboard is now available for pre-order.
Pampers gets into smart diapers with Lumi
The smart diaper wars have truly begun. Today, Pampers unveiled Lumi, an all-in-one connected system that includes two activity sensors for diapers, a Logitech camera fashioned into a Wi-Fi baby monitor and an app that wraps everything together. It follows Huggies adoption of the Monit smart diaper sensor in Korea. But Pampers, perhaps aware that a smart diaper alone isn't enough to entice consumers, is aiming for something a bit more expansive. The Lumi system is meant to make an infant's first year easier for parents by delivering as much data as possible.
Roli's light-up Lumi keyboard teaches you how to play
Roli has been making unconventional electronic music instruments for about a decade now. Its Seaboard series take the traditional keyboard design and infuse it with some notable tricks, like pressure-sensitive keys that allow for far more modulation effects than you can do on a piano. Its series of modular Blocks gadgets take that pressure-sensitive surface in another direction, combining the features of a synth and drum pad into a much more affordable device than the company had released before. However, Roli has never made a traditional keyboard before, until now. At first glance, the 24-key Lumi looks very much like any other MIDI keyboard out there, albeit one without any bezel to speak of. But, as this is a Roli product, the Lumi isn't meant to just be another small keyboard. The Lumi's keys all light up via internal LEDs, and those lights match up with a Lumi app for iOS and Android that's meant to teach users how to play. The app, meanwhile, more than a hundred songs players can learn, including songs from big-name artists like Beyoncé and Pharrell.
Lumi lights up the App Store this month
No, Lumi for iOS isn't your own downloadable copy of the AI character from Child of Eden. Instead, it's a new action-puzzle game in which you control a flying character who can navigate by manipulating magnetism (and by being shot out of a cannon) in lovely, balletic arcs. Title character Lumi gathers fireflies, to reignite "Light Trees" and bring light back to the world. And you'll be motivated to illuminate that world by the pretty 2D background art! And, you know, by that being the point of the game. Lumi will be released December 13, for $3 on iPad and $2 on iPhone/iPod Touch.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Lumi
Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, we're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week we talk with Christophe Panattoni, co-creator of Kydos Studios, the developer behind Dream.Build.Play grand prize winner Lumi. How did you get started in game design? I created Kydos Studio with Nicolas Daures a year ago; we both had a background in game development. We basically started designing games at the same time and we often take our inspiration from real life activities. For example, the main idea behind our latest game, Lumi, came while we were pinning tasks on a white board using small magnets. We were having fun with those magnets and we thought that would be a good start for a game.
