Audi R8 Isn’t shy about letting us know they use LED Lighting in their sweet rides
Found this on engadget, personally we love Audi’s looks and this doesn’t surprise us, Germany has always delivered great automobiles and features. But, is this just marketing, or a step in the right direction for the company?
Audi has already manged to work some LEDs into a few of its cars (concepts and otherwise), but the automaker has gone all out with its latest Audi R8, which employs LEDs for seemingly every lighting function. That includes the 24-LED running lamps the R8 had before, along with some brand LED high and low beam headlights, and LED turn signals, which add up to some 54 LEDs in all. Of course, given the prices that single LED bulbs demand these days, it should come as no surprise that this is quite the pricey option, with it adding a full €3,590 (or about $5,560) to the R8’s already lofty sticker price.
led gloves put lights at your fingertips
Found this on Technabob..
Just in case you’re still living in the early 1990s and heading out to a rave this weekend, you might want to add these to your outfit before you head out onto the dance floor.
This pair of battery-powered gloves have a set of bright LEDs built into the fingertips. In addition to a brilliant blue always-on mode, the gloves can also be set to epileptic flashing or disco chase-light mode — just in case your illuminated fingertips don’t draw enough attention on their own.
Thankfully, they haven’t yet caught on, but you better not let Kanye West know about these, lest he wear them to his next (oh so humble) award acceptance speech and start some kind of trend.
If you’re really ready to wear these out in public, you can find them from France’s Lux et Deco (get it, L.E.D.?) for €29 (about $45 USD) a pair.
Researchers tout spreadable, self-powered OLEDs
Found this over on engadget..
It looks like we could one day be buying our OLED displays by the jar or the bucket-full, at least if some researchers from Sumitomo Chemical and Mitsubishi Chemical have their way. They’re now working on what they describe as “spreadable” OLEDs, which could either be spread or “painted” on virtually any surface, leaving an OLED screen that would be just 100nm thick. As if that wasn’t enough, the spreadable concoction would also double as a solar panel that’d keep the OLEDs powered, something that’s apparently possible due to the “similar, but opposite, principles” that OLEDs and solar cells work on. What’s more, while the two companies are apparently still in the early stages of research, they say they’re aiming to have usable prototypes ready within the next two years.
Nerds Rejoice! – LED Display shows you SMS and RSS alerts.
Found this over on geekalerts..
This digital shelf, developed by a French designer named Jean-Louis Frechin, was recently showcased at the International Milan furniture show.
WaSnake, as the product is called, is made from wood and an elastomer material. The shelf is capable of displaying SMS messages and news items from RSS feeds selected by the user.
Head over to Newlaunches.com for more information about the WaSnake.
Hula Hooping with fancy LED lights, now a reality!
Found this over on technabob..
Here’s something that’s sure to draw crowds the next time you feel the need to draw attention to yourself. This dizzying show of colored light is produced by a rapidly spinning Hula Hoop, packed with LED lighting.
Handcrafted by Etsy contributor Schablien, the LED Hula Hoop works its magic with 18 super-bright LEDs embedded into the hoop. Half of the lights change colors, while the other half are fixed tones, producing a rainbow of hues as you swing your hips to-and-fro.
The hoop is powered by a rechargeable battery pack which should give you 8 to 10 hours of illumination before it needs a charge. You can find the light-up hoop over on Schlabein’s Etsy shop for $195.
In the words of Alvin (of Chipmunk fame), “Me, I want a Hula Hoop.”
Massive LED wall that’s powered with the sun
Taken from technabob..
This huge LED screen displays mesmerizing patterns of light and video to passersby. But the really amazing thing about the enormous wall of light is that it’s completely self-sustaining. That is, the light panels themselves harness the energy of the sun during the day to power a colorful light show at night.
GreenPix – Zero Energy Media Wall uses thousands solar photovoltaic capture cells attached to a grid of glass panels, each of which conceals an array of computer-controlled LEDs.
The wall was constructed for visitors attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and located in the Xicui entertainment complex, near the site of the games.
The display opens to the public this month, and will feature live and recorded video performances works by artists from around the world.
GreenPix was designed and implemented by New York architecture firm Simone Giostra & Partners, along with global design and engineering firm Arup.
You can read more about the project over on the GreenPix website. (Check out this nifty simulator application if you want to get a better idea of how the display works). Or Watch A Video of it here.
Solar Keychain LED Flash Light
Found this on I4U…
Here is a little gadget to show your support for green energy. The solar powered Keychain LED light gives you light when you need if you expose it to some sun once in a while.
The Solar panel on this keychain is very small, but the 3 white LEDs just do not need much juice.
The Hong Kong based Gadget store Brando sells the Solar keychain for $9.50.
See also the Hymini personal Wind power generator.
3D LED Display on display in Zurich
Found this over at Today and Tomorrow… Very interesting, I almost want to drop it all and travel to Zurich today to see this..
This is NOVA, a 3D LED display, developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Here are some numbers: it is build with 25000 lightballs, each containing 12 LED’s. It can display 16 million colors and 25 images per second. It measures 5 by 5 by 1 meter and it is 3.3 tons heavy. Impressive! So if you happen to go to Zurich, make sure you go and check it out in the train stations main hall, it will be there till September 2009.
There are some more photos in tom29ger his Flickr set.
