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You may remember a recent blog about Japanese GPS glasses outfitted with LED lights. Well, turns out we have another cool LED-based Japanese design to report, and this one also has to do with getting and giving directions!  The SEIL (Safely Enjoy Interact Light) bag is a backpack for bike riders. It’s wired with LED Learn More

Solar power (including solar LEDs) is lighting the way to a fuel-free fight for the U.S. Marines. That’s because the US Marines Corps is one of the first U.S. defense divisions to bring energy-saving technologies out of the laboratories and into the field. The benefits of doing so are numerous; using solar technology, troops do 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

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

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

Like many Asian cities, Taipei, Taiwan holds a Sky Lantern festival each year. Sky lanterns, which are typically made of rice paper and contain a candle inside, are an important part of Asian culture. In most sky lantern festivals, the lanterns are released into the sky after citizens write their wishes upon them. The belief is Learn More

You may have already heard about the giant LED arch adorning the football stadium in Durban, South Africa…made of over 14,000 bright white LED lights, the arch is 350 meters long, 2,600 metric tonnes in weight and 30 stories high. It’s said to represent South Africa’s love of soccer and the unifying effect the sport Learn More

You may remember back in March when I wrote about German researches who figured out how to transmit a WIFI signal over blue LEDs. If not, read the blog here: Surfing the Web on LED Light Waves. Pretty amazing stuff, right? Well, the Chinese have found out another use for those blue LEDs, thanks to Learn More