You may remember my last idea... greeted with much laughter and rolled eyes 
about scrolling app windows with your eyes and isight camera...
NEW IDEA: I create graphics for work. Lighting and shadows are 2 big parts of graphic art.
Apple makes beautiful icons and uses shadowing etc thoughout OSX to make things look life like and almost 'grabbable'. My idea would be, to use an iSight camera, to monitor the primary light source in the room, and then make all shadows change based on the position/presence of the light.
Look at the Pages logo
http://images.apple.com/iwork/pages/images/pagestitle20060109.png
The 'light' on that image would move to correspond to the light in your room.
At night, perhaps a spotlight looking feature would appear on the top (or in a dark room) Of course there would be a 'standard' mode that would allow users to turn it off...
This of course would be most obvious on a laptop, but homes see all types of lighting, day light, floorlamps, etc. and their constant flux.
Before you tell me how this could never work or 'why would you want that'
1st. I think it would awesome looking, and with motion desktop wallpapers, coming, I see current icons as being slightly boring, this would keep things looking fresher, longer because you aren't looking at the 'exact' same thing all the time.
ok, flame away...
about scrolling app windows with your eyes and isight camera...NEW IDEA: I create graphics for work. Lighting and shadows are 2 big parts of graphic art.
Apple makes beautiful icons and uses shadowing etc thoughout OSX to make things look life like and almost 'grabbable'. My idea would be, to use an iSight camera, to monitor the primary light source in the room, and then make all shadows change based on the position/presence of the light.
Look at the Pages logo
http://images.apple.com/iwork/pages/images/pagestitle20060109.png
The 'light' on that image would move to correspond to the light in your room.
At night, perhaps a spotlight looking feature would appear on the top (or in a dark room) Of course there would be a 'standard' mode that would allow users to turn it off...
This of course would be most obvious on a laptop, but homes see all types of lighting, day light, floorlamps, etc. and their constant flux.
Before you tell me how this could never work or 'why would you want that'
1st. I think it would awesome looking, and with motion desktop wallpapers, coming, I see current icons as being slightly boring, this would keep things looking fresher, longer because you aren't looking at the 'exact' same thing all the time.
ok, flame away...
