Part weeble, part LED flashlight, the Sanyo Eneloop Lamp is a clever design for both everyday lighting and emergency needs. We hope to see emergency lighting of this decor friendly variety in our household soon ourselves.
Unfortunately not available in Japan before September 11, Sanyo released a gorgeous dual mode Eneloop Interior light that can also be used as a flashlight when its body is tilted 90 degrees. The stand light is also sold with a non-metallic contact-charging stand, which gives enough juice to recharge two AA type Eneloop batteries.
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We first featured Lightlane back in January as a concept gadget that promoted bicycle safety. It turns out that this clever design received considerable media attention that the inventors have elected to take this from concept to production.
Lightlane includes a bright red LED safety light but aside from that, the highlight of this gadget are the two diode-pumped solid state green lasers that draw a virtual bike lane around the bicyclist. In doing so, it delineates a marked boundary between cars and the biker.
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Remember the space race sometime in the last century between the two world superpowers? Well, Shane Crozier was inspired by that and came up with the Sputnik LED lamp and Storage Chest that resembles the satellite that went into space back in 1957. This concept will come with a quartet of LED antennae which can pivot on a universal joint, allowing it to fill a space while fitting into crevasses. As for the base area, it offers a convenient storage solution for IKEA lovers, and remains stable thanks to the built-in power adaptor. We wonder when will such a design hit the market.
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This looks quite a fun gadget from Korea. It’s a palm-sized programmable LED display that you can use to make custom, moving graphics.
The display features 177 red LEDs with each clip built up individually from 255 stills until you have the animation effect. You can store 3 different animations at one time.
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LED controllable lights behind bottles controlled by an on board computer.
Bacardi is touring its LED bottle wall around Toronto festivals this summer. The mobile fixture is made up of 253 bottle sized holes arranged in an 11 x 23 grid with LED lights in the back which are computer controlled. The piece is participatory as well; the wall doesn’t come with the bottles in them.
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