LED ‘Gravity Lamp’ lasts 200 years
A Virginia Tech student has won the Greener Gadget Award for a clever LED lamp that gets all of its power from gravity, which is a seriously renewable resource. Working kind of like a grandfather clock that needs to be wound in order to work, the lamp has a weight that’s raised up every day. As the day goes on, it slowly lowers, with that movement powering the LEDs.
Dubbed the Gravia, the lamp will stand about four feet tall. Encased in glass, the entire thing is lit with a soft, diffuse glow that comes from the 10 built-in LEDs. Because it’s self sufficient, there are no cables or cords to worry about, so you can place it anywhere. The best part? It’ll last for 200 years if used 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. You’ll never buy another lamp again; it doesn’t get much more green than that.
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Incredible Student Design : LED Light Up Shelf
Found this over at techEBlog today… I think it’s really interesting, and I hope that someone hires this guy up to make cool lighting devices. If I had the capital, I’d hire him 
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Design student Chris Owens created “Illume” — “a shelf with pressure sensitive plates and embedded LEDs that light up objects that are placed on the shelf” — for his final project.
Flexgrid – Bendable LED Display
I found this over on TechEBlog. It seems that James Clar has developed this cool bendable LED Display. I must say, this could be really cool for the techno community, or just geeks in general who like to show off their nerd abilities at parties or other social gatherings.
If you guys at James Clar happen to be reading this (like google does), I’d love a free sample of this to play with and tell all my friends about. Cough Cough.
Embedded into a suit, this interactive display would allow for users to talk to the clothing, having it react in different ways depending on how you talked to it. This would give the clothing a ‘personality’ of its own.
