Following on from MAPT's interactive bench which we featured yesterday, here's another interactive light experience for you; this time from award-winning young Australian designer Flynn Talbot.

For his first solo exhibition at Helmrinderknech in Berlin, Talbot has developed a brand new interactive light product called X&Y.

The show opens on the 26th of February, and will be on view until the 26th of March.

The object allows people to touch and control the power of the light, creating a personal sensory experience. X&Y is not just an exploration of colour but, more importantly, it encourages the user to choose their own desired lighting effect.

The object takes its name from the X&Y axes - the horizontal 'X' axis controls the colour and the vertical 'Y'axis the brightness. Talbot's piece is deliberately minimal, making the light effect the central focus, and the polished brass base which contains all the LED’s and technology is not connected to the hand-blown opal glass sphere.

The sphere simply sits on the base and is supported by a ring of felt and can be rolled in any direction to determine the intensity and colour of the light from the illuminated base.

The sphere produces light in a range of cool to warm white tones and a full colour spectrum. Talbot's new interactive light object is about pure light and an element of surprise with the only the lower hemisphere illuminating when rotated into the on position.

Talbot has been contemplating the idea of an interactive light object for several years, bridging the fields of interactive design and product design.

X&Y functions remarkable simply with no dimmers, no switches, no remote control, no instructions and the simple, utilitarian exterior belies the complex technical LED system operating within the base of the product.

X&Y, the White/Gold edition, is entirely handmade and produced in a strictly limited edition of 8+2AP, each individually signed and numbered.