MP3 Lightcast: Music LED Projector
Huh… This stuff is really cool. It’s a 33 multi-coloured LED lamps which pulse, flash, fade and synch according to the intensity and tempo of your music. It could help you to create your own light show with a total of eight expressive light sequences that fade in and out to the intensity of the music. MP3 Lightcast is comming with remote control and you can purchase it for only $39,95 at Discovery shop.
There is some features available below:
- Light projector that syncs with your MP3 player or other audio device
- 33 built-in red, green and blue LEDs
- Includes interchangeable mirror and lens for different light patterns
- Four preset expressions – Slow, medium, fast or flash
- Four mix modes – None, minimum, moderate, maximum
- Includes illuminated infrared wireless remote
I suppose that it could be a really good gift for people who enjoy the music and lighting fun.
via: redferret
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
Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound”
Austin, Texas – 23 May 2005 – Coldplay’s video for its newest single, “Speed of Sound” debuted today—backed up by Versa™ TUBE units from Element Labs. In an unprecedented application, nearly the entire video shoot was done with LED lights from a total of 700 Versa TUBEs. Filmed on a massive sound stage, the video features a delicate, half crescent back wall composed of 640 Versa TUBEs placed on approximately 6” centers. Since the TUBEs were used without diffusion sleeves and the surrounding structure is quite minimal, the lights appear to be suspended in midair.
Production designer Mike Keeling of Project X and director Mark Romanek put together this singular look. “The idea here is having the band on this raw stage and everything is done in silhouette with lighting and key lighting,” Keeling explains. “Once we embarked on it, Mark and I just decided to do the entire video in LED lighting. That was the criterion. I got chills just thinking about it.”
“One of the things that Mark wanted to do was make sure the transition of the LED lighting on the background also replicated what was going on in front,” Keeling adds. “So everything in the front turned out to be a gorgeous, soft front light from the LED source. So we could go no color, we could change it to any color and we could also change it to video feed in the front, which was replicating what we were putting up in the background. Every close-up shot that you see in the video was done with an LED front light. It’s just mind-boggling.”
from elementlabs
LED/Pad Music Interface
The Monome is a new music interface with LED-backlit pads, a USB interface that transmits OSC and MIDI data to a computer, and — here’s the unusual part — open source, hackable firmware and software interface. Touch the pads, and you can use this as a step-sequencer and remix tool (as in the example), but the real philosophy here is being able to do whatever you want, so think of the example video as just a start.
The key design element is making the LEDs and the data from the pads independent. That means you can use the visual feedback on the pads to do whatever you want. So, maybe the LED shows where you are in a loop or step sequence as you play — or maybe it shows something else entirely. In fact, even if you don’t need a box with 256 pads, the idea of abstracting visual feedback from control information for more flexibility is one that could be applied to other instrument designs. (The Lemur, for instance, is also making steps toward letting you provide visual feedback FROM the computer TO the device, the opposite of the usual one-way relationship. There’s a lot more to be done in this area.)
But they’ve also managed to put this in a very professional-looking, USB 2.0-powered box. That’s a big step for a homebrew device. The only disadvantage of the design I can see is that the focus on buttons mean it lacks continuous control, and it’s not velocity-sensitive.
Monome site
Demo video
Product page
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