British designer Ben Wilson has designed a pedal-powered vehicle inspired by a child’s toy car. Called Artikcar, the vehicle is made of steel tubing and has an illuminated profile. Ben Wilson was one of three artists to be awarded commissioning money to create a mobile work of art, which will join the existing troupe of [...]
To celebrate Dubai Summer Surprises, Philips launches its ‘ambience’ range of household products that light up from within, through the tiny, embedded, white and colored LEDs that are designed to add your personal touch when setting a home’s ambiance, serving food and drinks, or accentuating decorative items like flowers. The ‘ambience’ products have a radiant [...]
Solar garden lights (normally used to adorn a path) are simple devices which use solar panels to charge a rechargeable battery in the day, then they automatically switch an LED on at night. Since they are now very cheap, and are even often thrown away, so we can use these to create self-sufficient (EVER LIVING!) [...]
Firewinder is the coolest green lighting fixture we’ve ever seen. Its 14 ultra bright LEDs are powered 100% by wind and will light up for anything from a 4 mph breeze to a very blustery day. The brightness of the light will depend on the strength of the wind: the faster the wind, the brighter [...]
The luminaires from LI-EX employ 15,000 cold-white Golden Dragon Plus LEDs and 50,000 warm-white TopLEDs in the entrance area of the new “Stachus Passagen” in Munich. Two different LED types were installed in the process: for the facade lighting and for the architectural upgrading of the entrance area, as well as for the backlighting of [...]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has installed a six-meter organic light-emitting display (OLED) globe at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. The OLED “Geo-Cosmos” display will be unveiled at the museum as the world’s first large-scale spherical OLED screen on June 11. Hanging 18 meters from [...]