LumaGlo Freedom Lighting lets you light up your home unlike ever before

lumagloHome lighting solutions have become a whole lot more power efficient these days, especially when we are all moving towards a greener environment. Hence, it is far from surprising to hear about the LumaGlo Freedom Lighting, where this particular LED lighting strip system comes across as a fully customizable workaround, as it provides users with the freedom to choose the length, color, pattern, intensity, and even the power source, with the central controls hailing from an iPhone or Android device.

The LumaGlo Freedom Lighting is a Bluetooth-enabled, LED strip controller which will hook up sans wires to your smartphone, letting you have total and full control over your home lighting system. You will be able to turn it on, turn the lights off, and even opt to set timers so that you will arrive home to a well lit abode at the right time. With up to 16 million colors to choose from, you will be spoilt for choice, although chances are pretty high that not everyone will be able to tell the difference in color when they’re so close together on the same scale. Each LED is individually addressable, letting one pick dynamic patterns and color combinations.

Since there are already so many ways to make choices, the LumaGlo Freedom Lighting arrives in a variety of lengths that include 1 foot, 2 feet and 5 feet, and all of them can be linked together up to 10 feet. There is a drawback to the system though if you are on the lookout for greater lengths, as it comes at the expense of reduced brightness.

Just how will LED lighting strips come in handy? Well, for starters, they offer users the ability to illuminate spaces in ways which would never be achieved in the past using the standard issue light bulb. Heck, there is also a modular power option for those who are always on the move. Some other practical uses of LumaGlo in everyday situations include increasing visibility, to be seen in clubs or at raves, to decorate a skateboard or bike, or even used at events or ceremonies.

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Flexit Ultra Thin Flexible Magnetic LED Light

There are times when you love nothing better than to snuggle up in bed after a particularly long and difficult day at the office, with a good book in hand that will have you turning its pages until you discover that dawn is breaking. Thing is, reading in your bed is fine and dandy if you happen to be living alone, but if you are already married, then your other half would most definitely appreciate it if he or she could sleep with all of the lights turned off. Hence, what are you supposed to do – go out to the study and read? Here is a short cut afforded by the $29.99 Flexit Ultra Thin Flexible Magnetic LED Light, where you can more or less call it the flashlight version of Gumby.

The Flexit Ultra Thin Flexible Magnetic LED Light will be able to attach itself to metal objects with magnets, where you can opt to hang it, loop it, or leave it as a freestanding device, now how about that? The flexible body is capable of shaping just the right amount of light for your reading needs, and it would also double up as a handy gift for that handy person in your life. With three power settings to choose from at a brightness level of 128 lumens, the three AA batteries that power it ought to deliver up to 70 hours of non-stop use. Heck, it is even water resistant that adds to its overall desirability.
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Panasonic LED Clip Lights Helps You Dry Your Clothes

Panasonic LED Clip Lights Helps You Dry Your ClothesThese days, it is all about convergence devices as well as ideas, and when it comes to the humble clothes clip, I guess you can more or less say that the design could not be improved further. Or could it? Apparently so, as evident by the folks over at Panasonic of Japan, having unveiled the hands-free LED clip light BF-AF20P which will arrive in different pleasing colors. The Panasonic BF-AF20P LED light will not only help you light up your path or the immediate area (although do not expect it to flood the entire area), it also doubles up as a clothes clip which comes in handy to dry clothes.

The light’s angle can be also adjusted, and since it has the task of helping you keep those wet clothes on a clothesline, a semblance of waterproof capability is more than welcome, and that is exactly what the LED clip light BF-AF20P is – splash-proof. Running on a couple of CR2032 button cell batteries, the LED light will measure 35mm × 34mm × 50mm, tipping the scales at approximately 19 grams, battery included. Out later this May, pricing details will be announced in due time.

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Thanko – “Flexible Endoscope 2″ – Investigate hidden and hard to reach places

With Thanko’s “Flexible Endoscope 2″, you can monitor small/narrow/hidden places where you are not able to see directly such as under the floor of your house or the back of your car’s engine, etc.
“Flexible Endoscope 2″ has a 2.4 inch LC monitor and an LED light at the tip of the camera, and runs on 4 size AA batteries. It comes with 3 different kinds of adapters: hook type, side-viewing type, and magnet.
This looks like it would be really fun to use and …

Ikea to sell only LED-based lighting by 2016, wants to be greener than your sofa bed

Ikea to sell only LEDbased lighting by 2016, wants to be greener than your sofa bed

While some wouldn’t necessarily associate Ikea with eco-friendliness given that its business revolves around plywood, the furniture chain has just staked out a clearer position as a green pioneer. It’s phasing out sales of all lighting that isn’t LED-based by 2016, making it the first major home furnishing shop with a US presence to entirely banish less efficient illumination. Ikea also wants to take advantage of its economies of scale with the “lowest price on the market” for LEDs, which could shake up an industry where anything beyond incandescent technology usually carries a premium. We’ll still have some time to wait for the full switch, but the company at least plans to practice what it preaches by replacing over a million store lights with LEDs — so those of us with no light replacement plans can still feel as green as the Beddinge Håvet we’re taking home.

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