Innovative Technology

You may remember a previous blog post about Chinese researchers using blue LED lights to transfer wireless Internet signals. Now it seems that researchers in Minnesota are toying with the same idea. LVX Systems claims that small groupings of LED lights placed overhead can transmit data from computers below to special receiving modems, thus speeding Learn More

You’ve heard of the mood ring, well know there’s the Mood Chair. Designed by Aether & Hemera, this piece of interactive, glowing furniture employs LED lights and sensors to detect movement and body heat within close range, and changes color based on what it perceives. The translucent acrylic base of the chair allows color-changing LED Learn More

Like all of our flexible LED light strips, our Ultraviolet (UV) LED Strip Lights are cuttable, dimmable, and flexible. Sold by the foot, these flexible LED lights can be customized to suit your needs and installed virtually anywhere. Unlike the majority of our LED strip lights, however, these UV LED lights emit a light that is nearly invisible to the naked eye, but has many practical applications.

The long anticipated release of TRON: Legacy, the remake of the iconic 80’s film about a boy and his father who get trapped in an alternate videogame universe, took place this week. If you haven’t heard people talking about how “cool that freakin’ motorcycle is,” I’d be very surprised. (The TRON version of the Batmobile Learn More

Light artists Jim Campbell is at it again. You may remember from a few posts back his “Scattered Light” project that was recently installed in Madison Square Park in New York. The project included three different LED light sculptures, each exploring how LEDs can be used as pixels to create large-scale, shifting 3D images. Now, Learn More

London’s Covent Garden is always a sight to behold during the holidays. But this year, an interactive LED lighting installation is making it even more special. Designed by Paul Cocksedge Studio, “KISS” is the world’s first ever kiss-activated Christmas tree. When participants hold a sprig of mistletoe and kiss while standing beneath it, the electricity Learn More

Got the time? With this snazzy Japanese invention, you’ll be hoping for strangers to stop you on the street to ask that very thing. The “Wasted Time” watch by TokyoFlash uses colorful RGB LEDs to create a futuristic and ever-changing display that takes telling time to the next level. Though the frenzied look of the Learn More

Flying robotic 3D light art. Need I say more?  Clearly, MIT is at it again. This time, it’s a project called FlyFire, initiated by SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory). Using a fleet of micro helicopters outfitted with color-changing LED lights, engineers have been able to create Learn More

For those of you who struggled with carving your Jack-o-lantern this year, here’s an idea for next Halloween – why not decorate a pumpkin with color-changing LED lights? Of course there’s the easy way out, which entails etching your favorite design into an autumn gourd and then lighting it from the inside with a battery-powered Learn More

Professional photographers, videographers and cinematographers know that shooting with the right lighting on location can be a chore. Dragging heavy studio equipment with you wherever you go is costly and inconvenient. What’s worse, most traditional “hot shoe” (AKA camera-mounted) lighting equipment is hot and expensive to operate. (They don’t call it hot shoe for nothin’.) Learn More