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What you see above are Ledube bricks. Unplugged, they just look like abstract shapes in white. Clip them together and connect them up, however, and you have a pretty incredible light show. Video and more pics below.
Wowzers. I would like to have an entire wall in my house made up of Ledube bricks. The company behind it is Japanese LED giant Sankoflex, who will hire out the blocks to you for just under $5,000 per day, with an additional $2,400 for programming costs. The bricks, which can display 2.1 million colors on them, are for interior use only and have a network interface.
Uploading what you want on the bricks is easy—create your design on a PC using special software, then load it onto the system using an SD card. Admit it, the effect is pretty awe-inspiring. [Kilian-Nakamura]
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I like how the guy just walks in front of the camera during the video not even caring.
This is amazing. I can see Kraftwerk using something like this on stage.
Must be some LED loving folks on this morning because The stream is but a trickle.
I'll check it out later though.
Soon to be a wasteful expense in airports everywhere.
pretty sure this is what CES will look like in 2010, if not 09. looks cool, but i don't need it everywhere all up in my face.
looks like a Hello Kitty City.
and people wonder why Japan has such high seizure rates among it's citizens.
when can i buy it?
I want to cover the front of my house with them! No more Christmas lights!
SO basically it would cost $7500 for a day's use? But if you want to rent a plazma this size it would cost a fraction not to have as low of a resolution product but you wouldn't have it look like a lego city. Hmmm. I don't get it.
@Wess: yeah, but when you're in Japan you see enough blinky-blinky light displays that you don't even pay attention anymore. Even to one as intricate as this...
@martini1179: That's essentially what I was thinking. This is going to end up in someone's multimillion dollar stage show. Should we take bets? I think either Janet Jackson or Madonna.
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