Colored JukeDock from Pressure Drop
Pressure Drop just rolled out JukeDock, a $100 system that lets you
plug your iPod into your TV, stereo and computer, giving you some
snazzy blinking lights at the same time.
Compatible with most iPods, its LED lights have three brightness levels
that can bounce along with the music, cycle among various colors, give
you a steady color or can even go into a psychedelic rainbow mode for
those nights you feel like pulling out that Pink Floyd album.
This looks like a fun little device to which you can attach your iPod,
give yourself some retro-deco lighting, and easily control with your
existing stereo’s remote. Jump for more pics.
from gizmodo
iBand - a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange
The iBand project aims to leverage the simple gesture of the handshake, coupled with the qualities of jewelry to act as tangible keepsakes and reminders of relationships, to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing.
The prototype is a wearable bracelet, adjustable in design for different kinds of users (male, female). When worn, the circuit board and battery lay flat under the wrist and an infrared (IR) transceiver is positioned near the back of the thumb pointing toward the hand such that it is visible to an IR transceiver on another device when shaking hands. A handshake is detected via infrared transceiver alignment combined with hand/wrist orientation and gesture recognition using a 2-axis accelerometer.
In a full experience with this prototype, the user first enters contact/biographical information into a kiosk, which stores it in a database and assigns a unique ID number to their iBand. The user can also create a personal logo that appears on the LED display woven into their device. When the user shakes hands with another iBand user, ID numbers and logos are exchanged and stored. The LED display cycles through the stored logos at a pace reflecting the number of hands that have been shaken. When the user returns to the kiosk, it displays a list of new contacts by looking up the collected ID numbers in the database.
via infosthetics
TENORI-ON: Playing Sound and Ambient Light Patterns
Tenori-On is great LED based novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns developed by Toshio Iwai.
It is operated by touching 16×16 LED switches. You could think of them as musical keyboards that respond to the subtlety of your finger touch by emitting light waves, creating afterglow, and making soothing sound sequences. The instrument knows how long and from which direction the player touches each LED switch as well as the tilt angle. ITRON is used as the computational engine that handles complex processing in real time. It has a jog dial, LCD display, hi-quality stereo speakers, and four function switches in the frame. On the back side of the device are additional 16×16 LEDs that allow audience to see the light patterns as well. Multiple TENORI-ON devices can be connected for collaborative sessions and exchanging songs.
Interface:
The Instrument contains acceleration sensors. The software can calculate direction of finger movement.
It has two built in speakers, a clear button, 12 function buttons on the outside. Small LCD display. Volume control and headphone output. The 16×16 LED matrix on the rear side acts a display only (not input).
Multi-user:
Tenori-On uses the Midi protocol and can communicate with other Tenori-On, synchronizing them. Remote mode allows you to control Tenori-On from a PC or another Midi instrument.
Don’t miss to check this video & see some photos here
via vmmna i pixelsumo
Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose
Spark Fun refer abou great new toy at Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. Many fun, many new and upcoming products and many very cool customers.
The LED Light Bar is a pre-packaged strip of 3 high-output LEDs powered by 12VDC. We don’t have specifics on the output luminocity, but take a look at the example GPS Wall Clock project to get an idea. Each unit comes with a fully assembled and tested PCB with current limiting resistors, reverse protection diodes, a wall-mount holder (backed with double-stick tape), and a connection cable. Each LED Light Bar absorbs approx. 30mA @ 12V.
And There is one more great toy for LED matrix geeks.
Triple Color LED Matrix! This large matrix has 64 Ultra Bright-Red, 64 Ultra Bright-Green, and 64 Ultra Bright-Blue individual LEDs built into one common cathode housing. It’s a monster to control, but just imagine what kind of colors you could produce by mixing!
via Makezine
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