Giant Toshiba LED Display Lights Up Times Square
Toshiba lit up Times Square today, bigger and brighter than ever, unveiling of a new full color LED display.
Toshiba Vision Times Square supports over one billion colors and high definition resolution. The new LED display will take pride of place at the top of One Times Square Building, and carry its message to the crowded streets 285 feet (about 87 meters) below.
The Movable LED Display Delivers Your Message
OMDM were present at the CHITEC 2008 from Beijing, China, and presented their latest product: a huge LED display that can be fixed to a car or almost any type of vehicle to drive through the city, advertising whatever you want to promote. Read more
BLU LED displays for MacBooks from 2009
According to the Chinese-language paper Economic Daily News, Apple plans to include exclusively BLU LED displays for all their MacBooks, starting next year. The same publication also states that Kenmos, their Taiwanese supplier of LEDs, could reach 1.5 million units this year, five times more than in 2007.
Interactive Color Cube – Spins And Changes Color
This interactive color cube was designed by Steve Gilbertson and it’s based on 3-axis accelerometer to determine which color to show. The cube uses colored LEDs and it creates an impressive light show with the help of the X, Y and Z axis accelerometer that display the color depending on the angle.
Giant Self-Sustaining LED Screen Ready For The Beijing Olympics
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are getting closer and closer therefore the final preparations must be done. Near the games site, in the Xicui entertainment complex, you will find a huge LED screen display. Solar panels are included in the screen which means that the screen gets its energy from the sun.
The self-sustainable gigantic display is called GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall offers a spectacular lights show (for the moment) and it’s based on solar photovoltaic cells hidden behind the LEDs. The designers of the GreenPix Media Wall are the New York-based architectures Simone Giostra&Partners and Arup, a design and engineering company.
Fancy Lighting Thanks To Loop LED Lamp
The Norwegian design house TRØKK16 is present at the 2008 Milan International Furniture Fair where they will exhibit their award-winner Loop LED Lamp. The desk lamp won the Prixluxo Award at the 2007 Stockholm Furniture Fair and now it’s hungrier for more awards.
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3D LED Cube Displaying Colorful Images
A Chinese display manufacturer called Seekway is the proud designer of an interesting 3D LED cube that is able to display images at about 30 fps. Yes, I know, that’s great. The display measures consists of 16 x 16 x 16 interconned vivid LEDs which means a total of 4096 LEDs.
For the future, Seekway plans to build a 48 x 48 x 48 3D LED cube for a total of 110,592 interconnected LEDs. Until they manage to build that monster, check out the video below with this tiny prototype.
Fancy Pioneer Shoes Light Your Path,Charge By Kinetic Energy
Sometimes when jogging, I feel the need of more light, but until now I’ve had no option than to choose a lighted place. Pioneer seems to have read my mind, by making a pair of shoes that features headlights. And they seem to have though of everything, also making them environmental-friendly. They charge using your kinetic energy, so all you have to do to charge them is run.
The shoes were designed by Feijun Chen and Bin Zhao and they feature a bank of LEDs able to light up to five feet in front of you. Not only they will light your path, but make you look fancy.
If you are a geek interested in knowing how were they build, check out the photos.
LED Bocce For Playing At Night
You can now play bocce ball even after the sun is down, using the new LED Bocce. They come in a set of 9 white, yellow, red, green and blue balls that have embedded LEDs. The LED lights are powered by small batteries like the ones you use for your watch and they make the balls stay illuminated for three minutes at a time.
The set comes in a wooden storage case that makes them easy to carry. The game is for 2 to 8 players and can be purchased for $99.
Wind-Lit Powered LEDs
If you were thinking to buy some fancy LEDs, I know that will be attracted by these new Wind-Lit Solar LEDs. The lighting is very cool and the power for the LEDs comes from renewable energies - solar and wind power. As they are hanged outside during daylight, they will harvest energy and all night long the LEDs will nicely light up even the darkest side of an interior.
A Unique Approach For LED Technology (NSFW)
Everybody in the world loves LEDs. These tiny lighting devices are drawing anyone’s attention no matter what. After you will watch the video below I am sure you will love them even more. This is a totally unique use for the LEDs and I think that the kids will need the parental advisory to watch the video. It’s better that I stop writing and let you check out one of the best use for the LEDs.
Tritium Keychain Lights Over and Over
Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, containing one proton and two neutrons, can cause phosphors to produce light, without consuming any other extern source of energy for years. Already used in watches, exit signs and self-illuminating gun sights for fire arms, it could be found even in keychain glow rings at DealExtreme.
Based on this phenomenon, this tritium keychain will glow for 10 years for only $1/year, without worrying about replacing batteries and even if it doesn’t glow as much as a common LED, this makes this cool gadget even greener than others. When you hear “tritium” you might think about nuclear radioactivity, but you don’t need to worry about any radioactive inconvenience, because the radiation is too low to cause any harm.
DIY: Make LEDs From A VCR
I am guessing that many of you are fond of LEDs because they just happen to have a special brightness of their colors. If you were thinking to buy some LEDs, I think that you will be happy to hear that you can do it yourself. You will need an old VCR but if you already thrown those things away, a CD-ROM will be just fine. Charles Palen used his VCR, pinwheels, wiring and some power tools, but it will be better if you watch him in action in the video below.
Blue LEDs Keep Awake Tired Drivers
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a new system to help the drivers engaged in night journeys to stay awake the entire way. Integrating blue LEDs in truck cabs and truck stops could be a way to reducing accidents caused by drivers that fell asleep behind the wheel.
They say that the blue light will shine at particular wavelengths to convince the brain it is morning, resetting the body’s natural clock. The LEDs can emit light spectra of 450 and 470 nanometers and can be installed into goggles that drivers will wear for a certain period of time before getting on the road.
This method should decrease the number of accidents that happen at night. Almost 30% of all fatal crashes involving large trucks in the US happen during the night period.
Tiny Plasma Light Bulb to Light a Whole Street
Technology development offers more and more compact solutions with every new invention that comes out of science laboratories. The Luxim specialists developed a micro-sized light bulb, about the size of a pill, able to light a street using 250 watts of power, enough to get ahead of a 400 watts one.
Luxim’s light bulb uses Argon gas to produce light. Electrical energy is delivered to a component called the puck, which acts as an electrical lens. The gas is turned up into plasma; it heats up and gives light. The light bulb is able to produce an equivalent luminosity of 140 lumens/watt, while a normal LED produces only 70 lumens/watt and a normal light bulb only 15.