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Would You Shove This LED Draft Detector Up Your Nose?

Good lord. First it was glow-stick mouthguards. Then it was temporary tooth tattoos. Now, well now it's a tiny LED that sits in your nostril and illuminates every time you breath.

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I Am Not Brave Enough To Stick This LED Contact Lens in My Eye

While YouTuber bkraz333 claims this contact lens with an embedded LED he made was an attempt to add a rudimentary VR display to his eye, I think I know the real inspiration behind it — Terminator cosplay.

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Who Needs Pixels When You Have Six Million LEDs to Light Your Display?

LED televisions until now have generally just used an LED power source to light the LCD display. This differs from the Jumbo-trons you see at sports arenas, where each pixel is an individual LED. Now,...

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OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish

Like a bioluminescent creature rising from the depths, these OLED lighting concepts from Audi are simply otherworldly. Eat your heart out, KITT.

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Scientists Create 230-Per Cent Efficient LED Bulbs

Light bulbs have always required more electricity than they need to produce light because the energy conversion process — changing electricity to light — was inefficient. But an MIT research team has...

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Ikea’s "Experimental" LED Lamps Are Perfect For "Experimental" Lying On the...

For its new lighting line, “Experiments in LED,” Ikea tapped different designers to create lights that change the ambiance of a room into something trippy. And yes, they’ve all got wonderful names we...

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London’s Tower Bridge Dons an LED Gown for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

2012 marks the 60th year of our Queen Elizabeth II’s reign — her diamond anniversary as monarch of the British people. Ahead of the celebration for this momentous milestone (as well as the 2012 Olympic...

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How To Make Gigantic Glowing, Flying Art on the Cheap

Imagine you’re walking home from a bar tonight. You look up and there’s a bright, glowing, 250 square foot Super Mario flying above you. You’d probably think someone had slipped you something, but no,...

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These Super-Efficient Reflectors Could Light an Entire Room With Just a...

The same company that made it impossible to forget things thanks to a small sticky note, could one day revolutionise interior lighting with a highly-engineered reflector that’s capable of spreading the...

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Here Is Your New Biggest (LED) TV in The World

The LC-90LE745U has a long, unmemorable name. The LC-90LE745U costs over £6,000—you probably can’t afford it. The LC-90LE745U is 90-inches wide: the biggest LED LCD TV in the world, and it’s completely...

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The Perfect Task Lamp Let’s You Mold Its Light to Your Liking

Even jointed lamps that pivot at all angles can be hard to direct, when you need the light to be just so. A lamp whose entire body is the light itself—and bendy, no less—is exactly the kind of thing to...

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Haier Continues the IFA Magic, Shows Off Transparent and 3D Tech

Haier has quite the interesting take on technology, and surprised us at CES with their brain-controlled TV’s and lots and lots of transparent things. This year the company is bringing their innovative...

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These Magnets Turn Your Fridge Into a Retro LED Display

These fridge magnets might not be high-minded or particularly useful, but they will turn your fridge into something that looks like a 1980s Casio digital watch. Each magnet is 1.9cm long, printed with...

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Ikea Will Only Sell LED Lights Soon

By now, energy- and cash-conscious people probably know it’s a good idea to use compact fluorescent or halogen bulbs instead of incandescents. But Ikea wants to help move the needle further and faster...

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The LED As We Know It Is 50 Years Old Today

Fifty years ago today, Nick Holonyak, Jr. proudly demonstrated the world’s first visible light-emitting diode (LED) at General Electric. In the process, he changed the world of lighting forever. In the...

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The Holodeck Is Real, and It’s in New York

While we still have a ways to go before the advent of photon torpedoes and warp drives, Stony Brook University has just brought us one step closer to our Star Trek future with the unveiling of its...

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Running Around Bangkok with Light Suits Looks So Damn Fun

Freerunners are already freaking insane. I mean, it’s a bunch of dudes turning the world into some sort of video game. How insane is that, right? But when you deck them out in LED lights and have them...

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How to Hang a Kickass Christmas Lights Setup

You want your house to be lit up brighter than Clark Griswold’s in Christmas Vacation. But you’ve got problems to solve, beyond just the aesthetic challenge. How can you make sure you don’t take a...

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Is This the Most Over the Top Christmas Tree Ever? Maybe

I came across this image buried in one of those wacky picture dumpster sites, wandering from url to url across the web. I don’t know who set the tree up. I don’t know how many thousands of LED lights...

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An Awesome Interactive 72,000 LED Display Is What Every Children’s Hospital...

This is wonderful. Jason Bruges Studio created an interactive installation that can react to touch and reveal digital animals inside a children’s hospital. It’s really clever, there are 70 LED panels...

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