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.
View ArticleI 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.
View ArticleWho 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,...
View ArticleOLED 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.
View ArticleScientists 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...
View ArticleIkea’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...
View ArticleLondon’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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleThese 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...
View ArticleHere 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHaier 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...
View ArticleThese 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...
View ArticleIkea 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRunning 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleAn 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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