Showing posts with label LEDs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LEDs. Show all posts
Saturday, December 20, 2008
NYC Streetlights Going All LED?
The Office for Visual Interaction has won a bid to begin replacing significant portions of New York's streetlights, and their replacement design is pretty incredible.
Each light is an array of individually focusable LEDs, using 30 percent less power than conventional streetlights.
Here's more on the streetlights from wired.com.
And more still from LEDs magazine.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Frog Design's 30 Year Light Bulb

"We realized the easiest way to create acceptance was to deliver the technology in an already widely accepted form. The form of a standard light bulb was then the obvious choice. It would not ask consumers to change their form of power, their light socket or replace the lampshade attached to the bulb. And it underscored the notion that good design is about solving problems for the whole ecosystem of the product.
In the end, we arrived at a concept that offers better energy efficiency than CFLs without the toxic mercury, provides a desirable light quality and dimming capability, and fits into the socket connection of the incandescent—all in a package that will last 30 years."
-Frog Design
Labels:
celebrity,
design,
LEDs,
light bulbs,
SuperForester Jackson,
technology
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
MonkeyLectric: LED Light System for Bikes!

Yo!
boingboing has this great piece up right now about how to turn your bike into a super street safe psychedelic wonder-machine with the MonkeyLectric!.
"The MonkeyLectric m132s is a revolutionary bike light that keeps you visible - and in style. Its ruggedized all-weather design is perfect for daily commuters, urban cyclists, casual evening riders, BMX, festivals - anyone that wants to be visible after dark and not feel like a second class citizen.
The m132s creates full color graphics on your spinning bike wheel, and it provides outstanding visibility. The lighting effects and colors can be easily customized anytime to fit your style - mellow to extreme.
The m132s sets a new standard for bike lighting with brightness, visual quality, effects sophistication, user control and durability that far exceed what has previously been available. It installs in minutes on Road, City, Cruiser, Mountain and BMX bikes."



Rats! Out of Stock!
No matter, we'll just put our names on the list and wait patiently for awesomeness.
The MonkeyLectric system is $65.00 per wheel, but what cost total night visibility?
What cost supreme awesomeness really? Are they saying that supreme awesomeness can be yours for merely $130.00? That's it?
You heard it. $65 for one tire awesomeness, $130 to rule the school.
Bargain.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
DIY Invisibility Sunglasses!

To be honest, these cheap, DIY, Infra-red, sunglasses wont make you invisible to your fellow humans, just to CCTV cameras and the paparazzi.
We want!
Look how easy:
Anti-Paparazzi Sunglasses - video powered by Metacafe
We saw this on wonderful, whimsical boingboing.
Labels:
Anti-CCTV Sunglasses,
DIY,
infra-red,
LEDs,
privacy,
weekend projects
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