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inspiration: Stylish LED Lighting Underneath Furniture

blue — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:34:49 +0000

These rooms use an LED lighting kit. It adds a great deal of color to any room, though it’s important not to overdo it. Basically, this can be done with any LED lights in tube format that can easily be mounted underneath furniture. That makes us think of Christmas lights for some reason. What’s interesting in this kit is that you can set it to a specific color, which is kind of the goal here.

The kit also comes with a remote control, which can come in handy. There is even a rechargeable battery pack to get rid of messy wires. LED strip lights are widely available and you shouldn’t have trouble finding them in a hardware store. We can imagine some really cool effects, in dark rooms with white or blue lighting to give a somber room a bit more diffuse lighting.

These brightly illuminated LED strips from LIT let you morph any piece of furniture into a colorful new canvas. Just secure the color-changing LED tube to the bottom of your furniture, plug in to an outlet, and set them to the color you want. The included remote control lets you select your colors of choice, or program the LEDs to cycle through colors gradually or step through them one at a time.

LED Lamp on the Pandora Planet in Avatar

blue — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:48:57 +0000

Inspired by the “Avatar,” a recent Hollywood blockbuster by James Cameron, Russian designer Anton Kozhevnikov has come up with a lamp concept that presents a modular design with one or three fixtures. Dubbed the “Atan,” the modular lamp features a heavy base to ensure stability, where you may also plug an empty socket to add another module for bigger or brighter illumination.

The Atan integrating the plugs with ledges, which snap into the matching holes within the sockets, create a solid connection. You may release the plugs by simultaneously pressing two buttons on their sides with ease. The Atan lamp features the fixtures formed by wrapping a LED light set along a twisted wire, which you may attach to the lamp’s arm with the bendable necks, allowing a great flexibility to the users.

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Silicon LEDs can act as photonic Tattoos

blue — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:31:15 +0000

Animated and programmable LED tattoos connected to your brain? You could show off your latest Flash animations, watch TV on your arm, or have a built-in PDA screen. The possibilities are endless. Perhaps more than simply a fashion statement, you could use such LED tattoos to display medical information about your body such as blood-sugar readings. A recent article in MIT Technology Review describes a new type of super-thin silicon transistor that can be embedded on a dissolvable silk-based film and can do all of that.

Brian Litt, associate professor of neurology and bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, is working with researchers from Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois and Tufts University to develop medical applications for the new transistors. Their silk-silicon LEDs can act as photonic tattoos that can show blood-sugar readings, as well as arrays of conformable electrodes that might interface with the nervous system.

Today, companies no less prestigious than Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands are exploring the potential for electronic tattoos as personal body adornment and self representation. Here’s a rather sensuous video from Philips that shows the human body as a platform for electronics and interactive skin technology.

Professor Litt’s silk-based transistors promise more than just personal adornment or even medical LED tattoos. Arrays of silk electrodes for applications such as deep-brain stimulation — used to control Parkinson’s symptoms — can be overlaid to conform precisely to the surface of the brain’s crevice structure to reach otherwise inaccessible regions. And the electrodes can be wrapped around individual peripheral nerves to help control prostheses. So far, these flexible devices have been implanted on mice without harm (The silk degrades over time).

‘Relaxing Ambient Shadows’ LED lamp

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:57:14 +0000

If you back home after the hectic days’ schedule, relaxing, talking and having dinner with your loved ones, there is a simply amazing LED lights for you. With the aim to provide a relaxing atmosphere in the room, the “Relaxing Ambient Shadows” LED lamp does miracles when turned on. Made up of aluminum plate, opaque and clear glass the lamp produces peculiar shadows within the room. The RGB LEDs let you change the color depending on your mood.

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LED lights on high heels decked out like a cop car

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:14:10 +0000

We know that civilians are not allowed to wear certain uniforms such as those of the police force, but here’s something that the fashion police wouldn’t mind seeing – the conceptual 3D Stiletto Police. It is a pair of stilettos that have the outer decals of a patrol car and not only that, it has LED lights which turn on and off, shining blue and red lights all around to warn bad boys to keep their hands off you. Would be great if it came with its own set of sirens as well.

There’s no indication of whether these LED festooned stiletto heels include a set of handcuffs, however, the rest of the outfit is probably not a standard-issue police uniform. Just remember one thing if you get pulled over by these blinking stilettos: You have the right to remain silent.