Innovative Technology

A dedicated reader of this blog might remember a piece about LED TVs, published a few months ago. If not, check it out here. LED TVs were creating a bit of a controversy at the time; consumers were wondering if TVs that used LED lights to project the image (as opposed to the conventional method Learn More

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

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

Ask and you shall receive! In a recent blog about our 6 Watt LED TESS bulb, I threw out a not-so-subtle hint about an RGB LED bulb I’d been coveting from afar, and lo and behold, it worked! Imagine my surprise and glee when the elusive (to me, anyway) remote control RGB LED light bulb arrived 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

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

The city of Branson, Missouri is serious about its stop signs. So serious, in fact, that it recently installed flashing solar-powered LED lights atop two stop signs located at popular intersections in town: Wildwood Drive at Gretna Road and at Golf View Drive. The signs are intended make driving in the city safer by getting 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