Creative-Uses

RGB LEDs made a big appearance as Target unveiled its fall clothing line to an expectant audience in New York on Wednesday. But instead of sticking to the traditional runway show format, the retail giant decided to do something a little different, something they called the “Kaleidoscopic Spectacular.” And spectacular it was, let me tell Learn More

The Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most beautiful bridges in the world.  True, the staggering 138-meter tall, X-shaped tower standing at the center of the structure is impressive, to say the least. But what would the bridge and its main architectural feature (the X-shaped tower) be without Learn More

Bill Stewart, known to many as the “father of the longboard” has been riding and making surfboards since the 1970s. But it wasn’t until a certain, very modern technology (LEDs) came along that he was able to make a board specifically for nighttime surfing. If you know any surfers, you know that when that perfect Learn More

You know we’re fans of anything DIY around here (check out our LEDIY series if you don’t know what I’m talking about), and so I thought it appropriate to give a shout-out to Instructables.com member StacyK for coming up with the ingenious idea of making air quality sensors out of LED-filled balloons. The 8-step process that Learn More

Just another ingenious (albeit maybe a little over-the-top) invention brought to you by Japanese engineers, with a little help from LED lights. In Japan, The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications has developed a prototype of a pair of glasses that have a GPS device built right into them. Well, to be clear, the Learn More

We proudly present the first episode in our video series “LED Adventures”, which shows you how we navigated Ape Cave, the lava tube deep in the belly of Mt. St. Helens, with the help of Elemental LED’s waterproof super bright LED light bar and a powerful 15 Hour Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery. Stay tuned for more Learn More

It’s not out yet, but it will be soon…and believe me, I can’t wait. The Apollo DMX LED Controller is an LED lighting accessory that will take your home and office illumination into the next galaxy! Developed right here in the Elemental LED Labs, the Apollo Controller is a dual-mode, custom programmable lighting controller. Unlike other LED Learn More

If you live near a beach, you probably surf, or at least know someone who does. (And if you don’t, then you wish you did.) The logic follows then that you probably understand that many of the desirable sets of “surfable”waves arrive in the pre-dawn or dawn hours, when the beach is still dark. How Learn More

Dexia Tower in Brussels is not one of these egotistical, over-indulgent architectural lighting designs, created with the sole intention of impressing through beauty and, more importantly, grandeur. Okay, well, maybe that’s not entirely true, but if it’s true that size matters, is it so wrong to be impressed by 72,000 RGB LEDs installed on a Learn More

We all love getting flowers, and I’d go so far as to say most people love displaying them too. A nice floral arrangement perks up any room. Now imagine what would happen if you added a little light to the situation… you’d go from just perky to officially fabulous in no time! Thanks to waterproof, Learn More