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Articar – Illuminated Pedal Powered Car

koibito — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:44:57 +0000

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 vehicles.

ARTIKCAR is inspired by a child’s wooden toy car. The Pedal Powered vehicle is made from steel tubing, it steers by leaning and uses an innovative technology to illuminate the car.

Artikcar is a four-wheeled recumbent-style bike with a bubbly rider profile that is laced with bright neon lighting. Beyond its bold design sensibility, Wilson’s Artikcar is as much about safety as it is about style. That neon wrapping will ensure that the drivers you share the road with will be well aware of your presence. We salute you, Ben Wilson, we’d love to have your Artikcar in our own garage.

Via Dezeen

Underwater LED graffiti

koibito — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:06:01 +0000

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!) glowing graffiti to adorn your garden or neighbourhood.

Inspired by nature, this art project re-creates beautiful, mysterious, bio-luminescent creatures from the deep sea in your urban canal, pond or river environment. In the initial test phase of this project, It’s built 2 creatures, one based loosely on a jellyfish and the other on a sea slug.

You can also use cheap solar LED garden lights and re-hack them into creatures shapes, using mostly hot glue. The solar panels float on the surface of the water like lily pads and the LED creatures are submerged a few inches below the surface so that their glow is visible from the bank, pondside, or canal towpath.

Read this tutorial at instructables.

Firewinder – Wind Powered Outdoor LED Light

koibito — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:59:52 +0000

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 Firewinder glows with its spiraling lights. It’s a clean and green power generator made of recyclable materials and can be installed quickly and easily with a few standard tools.

Product Specifications

100% wind-powered outdoor light
Innovative eco-designed light visualizes the energy in the wind
The faster the wind, the brighter Firewinder glows
14 ultra bright LED lights create a spiraling light effect
Helical wing captures wind from all directions
Clean & green power generator
Uses recyclable materials
Weather resistant design for max outdoor life
High performance fixtures for hanging on a post or wall
Simple and sturdy installation with a quick-release system

Munich underground – As bright as broad dayligh

koibito — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:35:22 +0000

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 a bronze-coloured glass facade, 15,000 cold-white Golden Dragon Plus LEDs were used. They supply a bright and even illumination, without scattered light or dazzle, and with low power consumption. An additional factor is the good colour rendering index of the LED light sources. This provides a natural colour impression and thus a higher level of safety, due to a more clearly contoured environment.

The handrail, 700 metres long in total, is illuminated by 50,000 warm-white TopLEDs. The LI-EX profiles are outstandingly suitable for this application. As the stairs in the entrance area are different, the length of the luminaires also needs to be adapted individually: for this type of luminaire, this is not a problem.

LI-EX is a part of “LED-Light for you”, a network for lighting technology, initiated by Osram, which works jointly with customers on implementing new solutions based on the efficient and multi-faceted light diodes; since the launch of the Stachus project, the network has been providing specialist advice to the architects, Allmann Sattler Wappner.

Read more about this project at Compound Semiconductor

HSBC Bank – Hong Kong

Firefly – wind sensitive LED sculpture

koibito — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:47:29 +0000

The Firefly Wind Light System revolves around a proprietary switch for sensing the wind. Picture an electrified wind chime; as the wind blows the metal chime into contact with the metal gong, it closes a circuit. Firefly’s LED/switch pairs do the same thing, except on a much smaller scale. When the wind blows on their pendulum switch, they light up.

Originally developed as a Master’s Thesis at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in May of 2009, Firefly installations have since been featured at multiple arena-size musical events. Firefly 870 has been exhibited at the New York Hall of Science and was featured on Kanye West’s Blog, KanyeUniverseCity. Several Firefly installations are currently being realized in the New York City area.

Turbine Light concept

koibito — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:18:45 +0000

Ingenious, eco-friendly concepts are all around us, there’s no denying that. This one caught our eye because it’s pretty innovative, seemingly well thought out, and good looking to boot. The Turbine Light concept (which is going to be a part of the upcoming Greener Gadgets conference in New York City at the end of this month) harnesses the power of the wind from cars rushing past to light up the ever-darkening roadways. The turbines use the wind collected to generate energy for the lighting, and while the concept lacks a lot of firm details so far, but we’re sure to find out more about it soon — we’ll be sure to check them out at the conference on February 25th. Hit the source link to see more concepts, along with other people and companies who will be there.
via Engadget
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LED Landscape illusion

koibito — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:00:03 +0000

Here is some great peace of work, documentations of dioramas and full-scale instalations that are built on-site in the landscapes.

Author use these as the means to explore issues of illusion, imagination, narrative and potential of the ordinary. He approach his photographic work with a theatrical sensibility that permits him to intermingle issues that arise from contemporary painting, cinema and land art. The resulting images are surreal images, given that they resoult from this cross-pollination between traditional photography and theater. Light and color are used as subjective tools, affecting the perception of space while defmiliarizing common objects. In this work, therefore, illusionistic space collapses while the lights that he install appear as intrusionis and interventions as thay contrast with the inherent atmospheric properties of natural life. This combination renders the forms in the landscape abstract.

More about project: http://www.barryunderwood.com/

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Illuminated Flower – public art sculpture

koibito — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:38:52 +0000

A GIANT flower designed to light up by catching energy from the wind will soon shine as a beacon on the new look Widnes Waterfront.
Plans to build a 50ft high illuminated flower out of galvanised metal, with 120 petals were approved by Halton councillors on Monday evening.
Architect Anna Liu, aged 43, who won a competition to design the public art sculpture, spoke exclusively to the World this week.

“When you do something quite bold on a big scale it does attract criticism but it also provokes discussion and makes people want to go and see it.”

The sculpture will be erected on rough pasture land beside a metal walkway and observation deck that looks over the Mersey estuary.

via runcornandwidnesworld.

Massive Installation Utilizes More Than 40,000 LEDs

koibito — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:36:20 +0000

Inspired by Multiverse, a massive installation by American artist Leo Villareal that features approximately 41,000 LED nodes that run through a 200-foot-long tunnel in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..

As passerbyers move between the East and West buildings on an airport style people mover, the zillions of lights flicker on and off over head creating rhythmic patterns and abstract configurations. The custom designed software also has an element of chance built into it, so it’s unlikely that anyone will see the same routine twice. The project is Villareal’s largest and most ambitious work to date and will be on display through 2009.

Villareal “Multiverse” National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from Walter Patrick Smith, AIA on Vimeo.

via:PSFK.

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Boston LED Terrorism Scare

koibito — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:05:10 +0000

There was a terrorism scare in Boston today — strange devices were found all over the city. The bomb squad came and detonated one of them, and removed the others. Turns out the devides are part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for [Cartoon Network's] “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” The devices are little LED Moominites.

Some media mention that or Graffiti Research Lab have some connection with this but Phil Torrone told that they didn’t have anything to do with it, although they wish they had.

You may have heard about the most recent terror attacks in Boston. This is NOT the work of the Graffiti Research Lab. We just downloaded this link from youtube. Itâ€™s Just more mindless corporate vandalism from a guerilla marketer who got busted. Interference Inc, welcome to the world of being misunderstood, scapegoated, demonized and wanted by the law. Still want to be a graffiti artist?
via BoingBoing

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