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There was once a time when people drank their booze out of jugs with Xs on them. We’ve since evolved to a classier drinking society with bottles of all shapes and sizes, and now, for the first time ever, bottles with programmable LEDs. MEDEA Spirits announced today the launch of the world’s first customizable moving LED reader on a bottle of vodka. Imagine the surprise when a waiter brings over a bottle of vodka with a scrolling LED display that says “Will You Marry Me?” on a blue, pink, or white LED. How romantic.

The bottle can be programmed to hold more than just the standard 140-character Tweet. You can use up to 255 characters, and program up to six messages. The messages will scroll for 3 minutes and will then turn off automatically. The battery is said to last for over a year, or for forty continuous hours. You can turn the ticker on over 500 times, assuming the vodka sticks around for that long.

Not surprisingly, MEDEA vodka is not cheap; it costs between $39.99 to $49.99 for a 750ml bottle. To find out where you can buy the futuristic vodka, visit MedeaSpirts.com.

Check out an instructional video after the jump to see how to program the bottle.

Legendary rockers are releasing officially-licensed LED HDTVs, available in 55-, 46-, 42-, and 32-inch (aka “Mini Kiss,” to no one else but the Engadget staff) variants, priced between $818.88 and $1,988.88 (and unless we’re mistaken by the wording, buying the 55-inch model also nets you a 32-incher) and on sale now online / in-store mid-November. Each set has the Kiss logo emblazoned on each bottom corner, and you’ll be rocked — nay, rawked — by eight seconds of the band’s imagery every time you turn it on. The TVs are produced by Roundtable Concepts and specs include… wait, you’ve already made up your mind, haven’t you? Well, alright, then, our job here is done. One more picture after the break.

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In conjunction with the Air Force, nanotech researchers at the University of Michigan have created a new super-efficient ultra-thin display technology. The new “plasmonic” technology is far more versatile than any currently available display technology and will allow for the projection of high quality images and video the size of a stamp.

The Air Force is interested in utilizing the tech to project virtual displays onto pilots’ windshields. For us civilians, the tech could also be incorporated into clothing to create wearable computer screens–your shirt could be your smart phone. It will also allow for very tiny displays. If people are still sending letters in 10 years, it may be possible that the post office could create a commemorative stamp for the 10-year anniversary of Avatar that will actually show Avatar.

And the displays will be very high quality. The tech uses pixels 10 times smaller than those of your average
desktop and more than eight times smaller than displays currently
available on most smart phones.

What makes the tech so versatile is its efficient use of light. The new technology quite handy at trapping and transmitting light–they make the current technology seem sloppy. For
example, in current LCD displays, only about five percent of the
backlighting makes it through to the viewer. The rest is lost in the process.

The nerdly whats and hows are a little
complicated, but for those who are interested, the deets are available over at Physorg.

Technically speaking, the maze-like array of diagonals you see above is actually showing you the time. But, as is Tokyoflash‘s wont, the point here isn’t so much about time itself as it is about the journey of figuring it out. Well trained ninjas might be able to decouple the numbers from their unhelpfully similar background, but for the rest of us this “Optical Illusion” LED watch will be an enigma of random black lines wrapped inside a lime green mystery. Thankfully, it does come with a button to clear away the mists of confusion if you ever need to, you know, actually tell the time. The watch remains a concept for now, but if enough people vote in favor of its unnecessarily convoluted design, Tokyoflash might just go ahead and build a few. So why not jump off the fence and make your voice heard in the source below?

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The first of the portable edge lit LED TVs from VIZIO that were announced at CES is now shipping, as the 7-inch VMB070 is available at the company’s online store and Wal-mart stores everywhere. In case you’ve forgotten, it’s still a 1-inch thick, 1 pound 800×480 resolution LCD screen with edge LED lighting that can tune into 1080i or 720p ATSC broadcasts through a flip up antenna, packs a battery with a claimed 3.5 hours of life and display video from a composite input or pictures via USB. You’ll have to wait for the step-up 9- and 10-inch models if features like ATSC M/H tuning for viewing on the go or HDMI inputs are a necessity but with its $159 MSRP some cuts may be excusable to avoid running down your cellphone / laptop battery watching Slingboxed broadcasts at the tailgate party or out in the backyard on Saturdays and Sundays.

Continue reading VIZIO’s 7-inch portable VMB070 Razor LED TV now available

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