LEGO LED Lighting, fun for the whole family!
Found this over at inhabitots,
Everyone knows that building blocks make fun educational toys for children, but what if block-toys like Legos could extend their life beyond just playtime and provide household use value as well? Glide’s illuminated LED blocks takes the ’smart toy’ concept to the next level by imbuing their building blocks with LED lights: creating a combination toy / lamp that is as useful as a room illumination as it is fun to play with. These ‘Legos of the lighting world’ are safe, low-power, cool-to-the-touch, and function equally well as a child’s nightlight or a chic living room accent light.
Composed of resin cubes that lock together with a simple key mechanism, each set of TwistTogether lamps can be configured in a wide variety of shapes and arrangements. Purchase more TwistTogether lamps and the creative possibilities multiply. Conceived by Brooklyn design studio Glide, TwistTogether lamps come in two color palettes: ‘Chocolate’ – composed of sophisticated browns and neutrals, and the more garish (but probably more kid-friendly) ‘Candy’ color palette, made up of bright primary colors.
What do you get with 3000 LED’s, some Cell Phones and some Nerds?
A BIGASS UFO THAT’S CONTROLLED VIA SMS. Yup, we shouted, what are you going to do about it?
Anyway, we found this interesting little tidbit on Engadget today.. looks like someone has gone ahead and made a SMS controlled 3000 LED UFO looking spaceship. Well, it’s hanging via some wires, but we don’t need to talk about that. It’s freaking controlled with SMS’s.
Here’s the picture and article. Head over to Engadget for a video too.
Hey France, we’ve got one more for your sophisticated UFO archive. Dreamed up by artist Peter Coffin and crafted in conjunction with London-based Cinimod Studio, this 7-meter structure was built from aluminum and covered with 3,000 shockingly bright programmable LEDs. Furthermore, there’s an on board 6kW generator to provide power, and the overall UFO can be remotely controlled via SMS. There are even assertions that this thing flew along the coast of Sopot, Poland on July 4th (and even a video to “prove it,” posted after the jump), but we all know how dubious such proclamations can be.
[Via Hack N Mod]
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.
Let your Dog Speak to you using LED lighting and his or her tail! Wag-o-Led to the rescue!
From Engadget..
Not like we haven’t seen a similar idea passed around before, but James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have apparently taken things one step further with their LED Dog Tail Communicator. As the title implies, the device would simply be affixed to your favorite canine’s tail, after which it could broadcast actual words based on the speed of the tail wag. There’s no telling just how many phrases the thing could spell out — and honestly, we have no idea how accurate the statements would actually be — but this may be just the thing to keep Rover quiet while still letting him get his point across.
3D Images Displayed by LED infused Cube
Found this over on technabob..
A while back, I reported on James Clar’s cool 3D cubes which could display images using a grid of about 1000 LEDs connected to a computerized controller. While Clar’s cubes are simply amazing, they can only display monochrome images. Now, a company in China has taken the same concept and created a multi-color version.
Created by Chinese display manufacturer Seekway, this prototype 3D LED display cube was created using a 16×16×16 grid of interconnected color LEDs (that’s a whopping 4096 individual diodes).
The Single Greatest Use of LED Technology – NSFW
This has been passing around the internet. Note it’s not really safe for work (unless you work in a strip club, tattoo parlour, or from home), but all the same. It’s an interesting use for LED lighting.
Mushroom LED Lamp
found this on geekalerts…
Maybe something for the Mario fans? This fun and colorful Mushroom Lamp ($12) is 14 cm (5.5 inches) high uses 4 x AA batteries.
Simply push the top of the lamp to switch on and off the LED light inside.