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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

Philips Lighting Ambience Range

koibito — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:17:21 +0000

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 glow that transforms any object or room, to reveal new details with a magical feel, fascinating effects, and an enchanting aura of light.

The collection consists of accessories such as a cooler, coasters, vase, platter and table lights that can be purchased separately. Each is the perfect conversation piece, letting you set the mood in a unique way, depending on the occasion, which can be from fun with friends, to a special evening with your loved one. You can choose a color and set the brightness to match your interior or garden. The charging base makes these decorative products wireless, operating for several hours, giving you complete freedom of placement.

All these products have color changing lights with soft-touch controls, and are safe to use – LED lights for both indoor and outdoor usage. They are tap washable, waterproof, as well as scratch resistant.

via Albawaba

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

Mitsubishi OLED Globe at Science Museum

koibito — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:01:27 +0000

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 the floor, the globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimeters. Mitsubishi Electric used its scalable OLED technologies to create the globe, which replaces a globe comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs) to commemorate the museum’s 10th anniversary. The globe will display scenes of clouds and other visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite. Projections will feature resolution of more than 10 million pixels, about 10 times greater than that of the LED display.

Via Displaybank

Control Your LED Bulb with any Android Device

koibito — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:29:58 +0000

Today Google flipped the switch on a remarkable new LED bulb that can be controlled by any Android device using the company’s new open-source wireless networking protocol. The search giant worked with Lighting Science Group to develop the omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent bulb, which can be dimmed or brightened on the fly by an Android-equipped smart phone, tablet, or laptop. The smart bulb is the perfect test bed for Google’s new protocol, which stands to open the door to a new wave of energy-efficient home systems.

Next-gen lighting technology has come a long way since The Clapper – Google and Lighting Science Group‘s new bulb is based on Lighting Science Group‘s A19 LED light and it features a built-in radio that interfaces with Google’s new open-source wireless protocol. Unveiled today at the I/O developer conference in San Francisco, the protocol can be used to control appliances and thermostats as well, so it may very well usher in a new wave of smart systems that self-adjust to ensure energy efficiency.

Via Inhabitat

Endless – LED modular lighting

koibito — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:59:22 +0000

Endless is a modular lighting system designed by Jason Miller for lighting brand Roll & Hill. The half-cylinder units that make up multiple lighting arrangements for any type of lighting needs connect to each other to shape simple and modern lighting fixtures. Their versatility makes the system perfect for any occasion: from residential to commercial and from industrial to artistic.

The tubular structure looks pretty futuristic but classy at the same time. Use it on walls or as hanging lights, Endless can care to any need. By joining the pieces together, you can create personalized lighting systems for your home or office. Use the modular LED lighting system to define your interiors and note that the white glass accentuated by dark joinery can also be a focal point in the room. The elements can be joined back-to-back or end-to-end to shape various configurations depending on your needs.

Via Freshome

Wearable Media – LED Eyelash

koibito — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:15:13 +0000

The LED Eyelash project is brought into the world from a simple question: Why do women want larger and bigger eyes? Asian women tend to have stronger needs for bigger eyes as a standard of beauty, but relatively few of them are born with naturally big eyes. Those without big eyes can only look for alternative ways to make their eyes look prettier, i.e., larger, by using a repertoire of skills such as putting on makeup and wearing jewelry. Sometimes, the desires for bigger eyes can become almost obsessive, and many women opt for plastic surgery in order to make their dream come true. Soomi calls this, the fetish of Big Eyes.

LED Eyelash is a clever product that speaks to many women’s desire for bigger eyes. It features an inclination sensor with mercury to turn on and/or off. The sensor can perceive the movements of the pupil in the eyes and eyelids. If you wear it and move your head, LED Eyelash will flicker following your movements. It is as simple to use as wearing false eyelashes and as easy to remove as taking off a piece of jewelry.

LED Expo 2011 is comming soon

koibito — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:32:18 +0000

“ International LED EXPO & OLED EXPO 2011”
LED and OLED (lighting in the future), and DID (core of next generation advertisement industry), ALL in one place.

First in the World, Biggest in Korea ! LED EXPO will be held in 21st June at Kintex.
Leading LED companies are coming !!! (GE Lighting, Kumho Electric, Inc. Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd, etc.)

Now “LED EXPO & OLED EXPO 2011” will be held at Il San KINTEX from June 21st through June 24th 2011, and DID (Digital Information Display) will be concurrently held. It is the biggest LED Expo where you can face all the products related to the LED and Flat Panel Display. (www.ledexpo.com, www.oledexpo.com)

This LED EXPO began its event in 2003, and it was the world first LED specific Expo. Ever since, it has grown more than 20 percent each year, and it will be its 9th expo this year.
It has been designated as a “promising trade show” by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, and also certified by UFI (Union des Foires Internationales).

More than 60 percent of participant companies want to come back again in this event each year, and for instance, Kumho electronic, Vissem Electronics, Fine Technix, Star Net Co., Ltd, LUMENS, King Bright and other companies which participated in 2010 already registered to participate for 2011. Also new companies like GE Lighting, JUSUNG Engineering, SAMIK Electronics, LED-EVER TECHNOLOGY From China, Evans Analytical Group from USA, and Tokuyama, MITSUMI ELECTRIC from Japan, and GAT Electronics from Taiwan WAI CHI Opto Technology from Hong Kong confirmed to participate in 2011 event.

High quality seminars led by prominent academic and business speakers, and one-to-one business matchmaking services will provide insight and various information to the participating companies and attendees. Also, LED Expo 2011 will increase the foreign buyers’ participation to satisfy all the participating companies and attendees.

Via Madeinasia