Ah, technology. Over the past few months, this blog has covered some of the amazing technological advances that scientists have achieved thanks to LED lights: LED contact lenses with smart phone capabilities, LED lights that effect mood, flexible LED sheets that might replace touch screen technology, infrared LED ribbon that grows plants in space, LED Learn More
Besides the giant LED-lit art installations at Burning Man, it’s always fun to enjoy the smaller creations sprinkled throughout the desert as well. From LED costumes to RGB LED art cars, there’s plenty of eye candy to go around. We’re not sure what the name of this monstrous art car is, but we certainly love Learn More
BizBash, a leading trade magazine for the events industry, named LEDs as a top lighting trend for 2011 in its February issue. “LEDs have been around for a decade or so, and we’ll be seeing even more of them. In fact, for some events, they’ll be the only kind of lighting,” states Lisa Cericola, staff Learn More
We’ve reported about LED surfboards, LED car mods, and LED bike wheels, so it’s about time that an LED skateboard came along. Produced by California-based Flexdex, this new model is called the Clear29 LT Longboard, and features flexible LED strip lights embedded in a clear polycarbonate board. The lights are powered by 9-volt batteries and Learn More
No matter what you thought of will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap and Taboo’s Super Bowl halftime show (even if you believed, hypothetically of course, that it represented everything that’s wrong with the music industry today), it was hard not to enjoy all the pretty blinky lights and futuristic flare. Taking some hints from TRON: Legacy, the Black Learn More
We’ve all seen them and (probably) laughed: tricked-out cars driving down the strip with glowing ground effects that make them look like hovering spacecrafts. Kind of ridiculous, but also kind of awesome, especially if you could just do it for a night without spending lots of money. It turns out that, thanks to LED strip Learn More
John Rogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken semi-permanent body art to the next level. Why worry about choosing between black or colored ink when you’ll soon have the option of scrapping ink altogether and expressing yourself in subdermal LED lights? These specially-developed LEDs can twist and stretch by as much as Learn More
Here you’ll find a list of our most popular connectors and what each of them does. Whether you’re using outdoor or indoor LED lights, and powering them with an adapter or driver, you’ll find the right connector.
The Walkway over the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY was once an abandoned railroad bridge, built in 1888. Back then, it was the world’s longest bridge and was considered a huge triumph in engieneering. Today, it’s considered a huge landmark for the LED lighting world, and represents the longest continuous structure fully illuminated by LED Learn More
Care for a glass of vino? Better make sure it’s been stored properly, or you’re in for a nasty surprise…Turns out that failure to regulate proper storage conditions for wine can result in vino that’s sour, spoiled and/or smelly. Suddenly that posh, sophisticated pour isn’t looking so chic, is it? Well, if you love wine Learn More