The simplification of the information objects that are sensitive to remote data streams is not only one of the trends of contemporary industrial design, but also the luxury of objects that reduce a color change lighting or complex phenomena by profound social consequences, as in Telesquishy , or simply economic or natural phenomena to which the user is personally interested. Radicalizing this trend and turning a soft light in a political signal is Limelight Eric Paulos, a work that changes the color of its light, and emits gentle bass sound, depending on the status of danger detected by a number of local sensors and remote data arrive via a direct connection to a server. Noise, radio frequency, level of radioactivity, but also the frequency of certain keywords in specific news sites contribute to a dangerous situation for the user, identified by the biometric fingerprint of his thumb, the device used to eattivare is controlled by the same in his movements. The need to reduce the flow of information to something understandable together involves an inevitable approximation that makes tutt'erbe a bundle confusing, in his be composed of dozens of different components, the actual individual meanings. It all leads to the claim and topical permanent state of tension, an almost constant discomfort expressed in an object that in its abstraction provides an admirable summary of the instability (induced) that surrounds us.