If the ringing of your bicycle’s bell isn’t getting the response you’re after from motorists—namely, please don’t hit me—it might be time for an upgrade. Sixty-five bucks will get you the Orp, an LED headlight that easily lashes and unlashes from your handlebars and emits a loud shriek that can be heard inside a running car—even with the windows rolled up.
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In south Japan, Mie prefecture is rocking 7 million LED Christmas lights. Hence the awesome light tunnel above. "Illuminations" or Christmas light displays have been a big deal in Japan since the 1980s. But there’s something a lot more contemplative about these lights compared to some of the spectacles
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Continued advances in the connected home
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With the right app, our phones can become almost any device we need, and Light & Motion is taking a similar approach with its new GoBe flashlight. Except that instead of software, it uses a set of six swappable heads that allow you to customize the flashlight’s beam for specific needs—like a wide bright light when riding your bike in the city, or a soft red glow that protects your night vision when hiking through the woods.
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With a development that will surely appeal to airports, Philips has announced a partnership with flooring manufacturer Desso to produce a light transmissive LED-powered carpet that can be used to display warning messages, directions, or even fancy glowing designs. And airports are just the tip of the glowy-floor iceberg.
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First and foremost, a good pair of snowboarding boots should get you down a slope safely and with a good measure of comfort. But Nike also wants you to be noticed, particularly if you’re competing and need to impress a bunch of judges. So with its latest snowboarding boot—the LunarENDOR QS—Nike’s enhanced its iconic swoosh logo with 30 glowing LEDs so that when you’re pulling a spiralling Double McTwist 1260, you’ll be an impossible to miss swirl of blue.
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For some gamers, online achievements are even more important than real-world reputation. And the HipShotDot—a small red LED you stick in the middle of your screen—could be the first accessory marketed to FPS players that promises to improve their in-game performance without the use of dangerous levels of caffeine.
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Max Gunawan’s wonderful Lumio accordion book lamp has been popping up on design sites for the past year or so. But after a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, it’s finally available for purchase, bringing its soft glow to home libraries around the world.
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Pixelstick, a stick of colored LEDs that paints highly complex and artistic light paintings onto long-exposure digital photographs, has completely blown away its Kickstarter goal four days into its 45-day campaign. Launched Oct. 29, the campaign funds the mass production and sale of the tool. The first Pixelsticks are projected to ship May 2014. By […]
In recent years, we’ve watched with wonder as boring old yellow halogen car headlights have been replaced with futuristic, Tron-like LEDs. Now, that transition is about to take place on the city scale, as New York City prepares to replace its street lamps—all 250,000 of them—with LEDs.
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