Remote Control Sneaker Lights Blind Your Friends With Awesomeness

Remote Control Sneaker Lights Blind Your Friends With Awesomeness

These days, a set of velcro straps across the top of your kicks just isn’t enough to impress your sneaker freak friends. To guarantee you’re the envy of everyone on your block, forget about dropping hundreds on the latest pair of Nikes—instead, strap a pair of these Light Kicks LED strips to your feet.

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The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets a Colorful Follow-Up

The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets a Colorful Follow-Up

What was originally conceived as a cheap rechargeable LED light for parts of the world where the power grid wasn’t reliable, turned out to be a huge hit with consumers all over the world after it was unveiled at CES last year. So this year MPOWERD is introducing a slightly more extravagant model of its inflatable lantern called the Luci Aura that features color-changing LED lights and a new frosted plastic giving it a softer glow.

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The Freaky, Bioelectric Future of Tattoos

The Freaky, Bioelectric Future of Tattoos

America loves tattoos. From tribal designs to tramp stamps, this country can’t get enough ink. Last month, a Pew study showed that tattoos grace the bodies of nearly 40 percent of Americans under 40, a massive number of customers in a $1.65 billion industry. Like any industry, however, the tattoo industry must innovate.

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Belkin’s WeMo Smart LED Bulbs Put the Light Switch On Your Phone

Belkin's WeMo Smart LED Bulbs Put the Light Switch On Your Phone

Belkin continues its pursuit of making home automation a simple plug-and-play affair with the introduction of its new Smart LED lightbulbs to its WeMo line. The 60-watt equivalent bulbs produce 800 lumens and cast a warm 3000 Kelvin glow across a room—so they should satisfy even those who’ve stocked up on incandescent bulbs ahead of the ban.

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You’ll Happily Swap Your Old Bulbs For This Interactive Party Ball

You'll Happily Swap Your Old Bulbs For This Interactive Party Ball

If you’re outraged that the government would dare tell you what kind of lightbulbs you should be able to buy, ION Audio’s new Party Ball should help quell your rage. It’s designed to screw into a standard ceiling mounted light socket, but instead of just providing a warm glow to illuminate a room, it puts on a dazzling colored light show.

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Light Up Spurs For Cowpokes Who Ride Bikes, Not Horses

Light Up Spurs For Cowpokes Who Ride Bikes, Not Horses

If you have to ride your bike at night, there’s no such thing as wearing too much reflective material—after all, you want to make yourself as visible as possible to those with whom you share the road. But a flashing light can ensure a driver spots you well before the headlights of their car do, and with a pair of these glowing LightSpurs clamped to the back of your shoes, you’ll stand out like a sore—but safe—thumb.

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Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Who Needs Fireworks When You've Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Sure, light painting is awesome when you’re doing long exposure shots with a PixelStick or something, but that’s only one way to cover your world in glowing graffiti. Take, for instance, this LED-powered rainbow plane.

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Track The Exact Location Where These Wood Fixtures Were Felled

Track The Exact Location Where These Wood Fixtures Were Felled

Ninebyfour is a limited edition of 79 light fixtures, each made from a single piece of Stadshout, or "city wood": timber felled around Amsterdam’s public spaces and destined for the chipper, but saved here to be transformed into something new.

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Safely Ring In the New Year With an LED Fireworks Extravaganza

Safely Ring In the New Year With an LED Fireworks Extravaganza

It’s ironic that one of the nights of the year when fireworks are the perfect way to celebrate is also the one night when you and your friends should not be messing with explosives. But with this LED fireworks kit, you can drink yourself silly and still safely put on quite a show when the clock strikes midnight.

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Wirelessly Light Your Tree With LEDs, Pennies, and Lemon Juice

Wireless power is taking its sweet time becoming a reality, but did you know that with a few household items you can light your Christmas tree without having to deal with a tangled mess of cords? It not only makes decorating and undecorating a tree much easier, this tutorial can even help drain that giant bowl of change on your dresser.

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