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Motivation

I read about The Paradox of Choice recently, which boils down to the assertion that more is less.
Indirectly quoting Barry Schwartz here, The Paradox of Choice claims that a large amount of choice is commonly associated with welfare and freedom but too much choice causes the feeling of less happiness and less satisfaction.
Personally, I don’t believe this is true. Although I accept that a plethora of choices can paralyze the brain for some time, I argue that the pressure of making a decision is bound to settle all thoughts to a final choice.
The internet is filled with debates speaking equally, for and against, The Paradox of Choice.

So What Is URL?

To test this for myself, I thought of the idea of Ultimate Room Lights.
These are basically lights that add ambience in exactly the way the user wants.
To make it ridiculously easy and instant, there’s also a smartphone app for editing any kind of parameters of the lighting. Want the lights to pulse at a specific colour? Open your app, choose any colour, set the pulse time, done.
Want the lights to work as automatic night lights? One tap on the app, done.
And guess what, individual settings for RGB channels can be customised! For example, set the pulse time for Green to 2.718 seconds and Red to 3.141 seconds.
Let’s get dirty now.
Want to pulsate a colour which also works as night lights?
Don’t want a specific colour (RGB ratio) to ever light up?
Want to route a specific colour to the individual frequency bands of ambient sound?
Want to route a specific colour to the individual frequency bands of ambient sound along with any of pulsating/flashing effects all the time avoiding a specific colour?

You get what I want to convey.
Ideally, the finished project would suit any kind of workspace according to any kind of personal taste due to the diverse tweaking options.

As much as I am a lover of comfort zones in work environments, I plan on finding out whether I keep tweaking the options endlessly, or actually feel a productivity boost owing to the desired ambience.

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