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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
Fairytale Fashion. No, I’m not referring to Little Red Riding Hood’s latest couture cape, or Hansel and Gretel’s designer clogs. I’m talking about the New York-based organization that focuses on melding technology and fashion. Fairytale Fashion founder Diana Eng describes the concept as “making magical clothes…that might have blooming flowers, living clothes that breathe, change color, Learn More
We’ve all been watching the tragedy unfold over the past few weeks, as oil, leaking from an exploded underwater BP mine, surges across the Gulf of Mexico, endangering hundreds of miles of fragile coastline. Bloggers, politicians, newscasters and pundits alike are all saying the same thing in response to this crisis: “We must end our Learn More
Today we’d like to show you a beautiful lamp that was made by Kudra Kalema, a product designer from San Francisco. He used our full-color flexible RGB LED strip light to create the lamp he has titled “Notch.” We spoke to him about his inspiration for the lamp, and something about his background, as he Learn More
We’d like to celebrate three things today at Elemental, and they’re all related. The first is our new in-house lighting designer Joe Martin, who we call JoeJoe. He’s kind of shy and likes his work to speak for itself, so instead of embarrassing him with a photo or bio, I’ll introduce our second occasion to Learn More
After 120 years of manufacturing and selling incandescent bulbs, Toshiba is shutting the doors of its incandescent bulb factories on March 19th 2010. In 2008, Toshiba made the decision to focus on environmentally friendly lighting, and began to transition to lighting options that reduced carbon emissions, epsecially LED lights. The company was planning on giving Learn More
Crazy news tidbit of the day: German researchers have found a way to encode wireless internet (WIFI) signals into the visible lightwaves of LED lights. Now, several questions pop into mind when you read a statement like that, the first of which for me was: “What’s the point of doing that? Why would we want Learn More
We here at Elemental LED realize that a lot of our light fixtures are examples of a technology that’s new to many people. That’s why we’ve just created a series of instruction sheets and videos which we call LEDucation, in order to familiarize you with the different connector types used by our fixtures, how to Learn More
LEDIY is a new video series we’ve come up with where Elemental customers tell us in their own words–and show us with their own pictures–what they used our LED light fixtures for and how they did it. Given the variety of fixtures we sell, and the flexibility their compactness and shapes offer, it seems like Learn More
Car lovers rejoice! Audi just released specs, pictures and info about its 2011 Audi A8 and select lucky viewers got to glimpse the car in person at the star-studded Miami design week! Not only is the sedan as sleek and powerful as ever, it’s also planet-friendly. One important reason that the car is greener than Learn More
Electric Bik.e
Volkswagen has done it again, but this time it's not the safest car on the road, it's an electric scooter, called the Bik.e. The scooter is designed to fold up... Read our blog
