Philips wants you to live a healthier and more relaxed life and has just unveiled 15 design-led concepts that it thinks can help. As part of the 2006 Philips Simplicity Event at London’s ExCeL exhibition centre this week, the company took the wraps off a host of innovative products centered around five themes, ranging from body monitoring and immersive digital activities to home-oriented lighting and interactive learning tools.

For instance, the company is showing off AmBX, which can be built into games and USB-enabled  peripherals to immerse you further into a game. It can result in special lighting effects, surround sounds, rumbling and even the movement of air – all tied in tightly with what’s happening on screen.

LivingColors is a new form of home lighting that uses LED lighting to allow you to choose from an infinite range of colours and intensities to create moods in different rooms. Then there's the Wake-Up Light is designed to slowly increase intensity, to match the rising of the sun, so that your body prepares to wake up slowly over a 30-minute period. It arrives in France later this month and the rest of Europe next year.

Finally, there is the uWand – a new way of accessing and managing content and devices in the home, by waving what looks like a short magic wand. To find out more and see more photos of what’s on the way, go here.

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