LED shower heads by Visentin can be mounted on your ceiling, allowing for an open shower experience in the middle of your living room.
Specializing in health and wellbeing, the Italian bathroom design company created these luxury shower heads to bathe you in a rainbow of therapeutic colored LED light. Hot hues include rejuvenating orange, renewing white, relaxing blue, healing pink or refreshing green, each with its own therapeutic qualities to transform your shower into a daily home-spa experience.
Get your first look at the 2010 New Year’s Ball set in Times Square. Though they didn’t add to the previously installed 32,256 Philips LED lights, they did include new Waterford glass panels. Every year “a new hope” is constructed onto the ball, and this year the theme is “let there be courage.” This year’s ball is going to be a shining colorful beacon of brilliance.
For 2010 Waterford Crystal has designed a new sparkling “Let There Be Courage” triangle. The crystals feature a unique interlocking ribbon pattern woven into the Celtic knot. The triangles, each about 3/8″ thick and 6.8 ounces in weight are custom made and built to exacting standards to withstand the stresses of high winds, precipitation and temperature fluctuation that exist over 400 feet above Times Square. 288 are being installed alongside crystal installed in previous years.
And get this–a Waterford iPhone app has been developed for the special occasion. It’s called Clink-Clink and it’s a a virtual toasting application. When two iPhones tap each other and “clink” glasses, contact information is shared and can even posted on Facebook. Ah, ’tis the year of “there’s an app for that.” Am I right? Head after the break for an additional video showcasing the New Year’s Ball and watch how the Waterford app works.
Glass Of Milk LED Night Light. Designed by Andrew Liszewski.
Liszewski created these white LED-infused acrylic drinking glasses to serve not only as cups but also as night lights. The way I see it, he’s got it all wrong. The real purpose of these glasses is to camouflage with “milk” that alcoholic beverage you are forced to sneak around the house.
LED Wall. Designed by Langarita–Navarro Arquitectos. Located in Madrid, Spain.
This LED wall at the Medialab-Prado in central Madrid is an interactive façade made of 35, 000 LED lights that can display both still images and video. It was commissioned by the Madrid Town Council “to develop social interaction and to offer a new digital landmark for their city which is often so closely guarded from development.” It serves as a display for city information and “psychedelic” art. Images below, video after the break.
Developed by Siemens and Munich multimedia artist Michael Pendry, this wind turbine-turned-Christmas “SuperStar” is made up of 9,000 spinning LED lights. Each blade holds 3,000 LED lights and when it rotates the lights bright up the night’s sky. The overarching reason this was made for the holiday season is because it promotes eco-friendliness. The LEDs emit the equivalent of 22,000 candles and the structure uses as much energy as a hairdryer! It sits in Munich until January 6. Check out additional images of this glowing wonder in the gallery below; long exposure photography was used to capture the spinning blades at a colorful standstill. Also, peek after the break for a video of the star’s construction and to see it in action.
The inclusion of an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor, a carbon dioxide detector, and LED lights make this dress, well, very unique. Stitched together using conductive embroidery, the LEDs are connected to the CO2 detector and light up when the dress interacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Glowing patterns range from “slow pulses to rapid flashes” depending on how much CO2 is detected. Diffus representatives: It generate awareness of environmental issues through an “aesthetic representation of environmental data.” I’ll say.
Ex-Disney imagineer Ric Turner has created quite the holiday delight: a fusion between Guitar Hero and Christmas light decorations. How does it all work? Read on to find out:
Christmas Light Hero is using 7 light controllers from Light-O-Rama built from kits to control 21,268 lights and LEDs. Each controller has 16 outputs and 2-3 TTL level control inputs that are used by the game system to fire different programmed light sequences depending on what happens in the game. It relies on the fact that the game sequence is very consistent. If the game and the lighting sequences start together, they will stay in very good sync through the length of the song. The light program allows branching and overlays for fail, star power and “ready.” I have some ideas to automate the initial show/game sync, but for now you have to push doorbell buttons at the right moments.
Though this must have taken so much time to complete the final product is very impressive and looks like a lot of fun. And Turner, good song choice!
The Plaza del Torico, located in Teruel, Spain, has undergone a recent change in looks. Over 1,230 LED lamps have been embedded in the pavement of the plaza. The large scale system has been configured so that colors and patterns can sequentially change. And that’s that; Teruel, Spain is now on my list of places to visit in the near future.
Designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz of CuteCircuit.
The GalaxyDress provides a spectacular and mesmerizing effect being embroidered with 24000 color LEDs, it is the largest wearable display in the world. Constructed using the smallest full-color LEDs that are flat like paper and measuring only 2 by 2 mm.
Says the duo: “The circuits are extra-thin, flexible and hand-embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity.” They add that the dress uses the same amount of electricity as two household bulbs.
