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more about #led more comments → Alex Godofsky: What's the song from the video? #galaxyleddress more » Michai: Very cool, better than most of those runway outfits. I'm surprised no one has LED modded a pair of stilettos. #galaxyleddress more » Alessar: In the anime Gankutsuou (a science fiction update of The Count of Monte Cristo) the nobles wear clothing that does this kind of thing, even with patte... more » Curves: I love fashion and technology but this wasnt thrilling me. Like most high fashion though, its a concept meant to inspire more realistic pieces later.... more » Software_Goddess: O.K. on the practical side… …Can you sit down in this without damaging it and how well will it hold up to a night of dancing? #galaxyleddress more » negated: has star powah: When you just absolutely have to have a a dress that screams, "Look at me, look at me! Look at me, I'm blinking, look at me!! Are you looking at me?... more » Software_Goddess: I take it you are volunteering to be the test pilot for this flight of fancy, Rosa. Now that would be worth the expense to go to Gizmodo Gallery for. ... more » Software_Goddess: Is there a tux to match? #galaxyleddress more » met2art: My dear, you're positively glowing! I'm so thrille dyou're here. Now please, stand over here near me... closer... lean down. That's good. I couldn't s... more » fuchikoma: That's great, but... my $5 flashlight has a handle on the bottom that flips out, and if you crank it for a few seconds you have a half hour of light. ... more » -
#design
Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
24,000 full-color, super-thin LEDs, 4,000 Swarovski crystals, and enough iPod batteries to keep everything glowing for about an hour. This picture doesn't do the Galaxy Dress justice, but the video comes close. More » -
#flashlights
Designed by Porsche, This $250 Flashlight Has a 20 Year Battery
The mPower Emergency Illuminator combines a beautiful design (courtesy of the Porsche Design Studio) with new battery technology. One tube holds two CR123 batteries, while the other stores a Lithium Reserve Battery that has a minimum shelf-life of 20 years. More » -
#wtf
Telephone Company Ripping You Off? Get Revenge With This Lamp
Somehow it doesn't seem like landline providers would be happy about people using the tiny bit of electricity coming through phone-jacks to power lamps, but this thing is so kitschy looking that it'd be hard to resist. Plus it's cheeeeeeap. More » -
#solarpower
Cheap, Printed Solar-Powered LEDs Could Change 1.5 Billion Lives
Photovoltaic cells printed on sheets aren't news, nor are LEDs and ultrathin lithium batteries. What's news is a combination of the three which can help give light to 1.5 billion people who live in impoverished areas without access to electricity. More » -
#architecture
The Living Light Sculpture
The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It's actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More » -
#remainders
Stuff We Didn't Post Today (and Why)
Job Postings Reveal That Microsoft's Not Stopping At Windows 7...Carpool LED Signs Pretend That We All Get Along...Biodegradable Plastics To Be Made Out Of Green Gunk...I Don't Have Enough Fingers And Toes For Ideum's New Multitouch Table More »
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#art
LED Eyelashes Are the Next Stage in Woman's Self-Torturing Arms Race
Designer Soomi Park is a betrayer of her own sex. She could very well start a trend with these LED eyelashes, forcing women everywhere to painfully affix electrodes to their faces, blinding themselves with each eye-smile. (See the video!): More » -
#rfid
LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
Sometimes it's the unseen that's the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there's plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More » -
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#diy
LED Pocket Watch Will Have You Considering Monocles and Handlebar Mustaches
Using his one of his Grandfather's broken old pocket watches as a starting point, one modder [Paul Pounds] skilled in the ways of microelectronics replaced the face with a system of 133 hand soldered LEDs. More » -
#mods
Yet Another PSPGo Mod Blinds You With LEDs
Seriously, what is wrong with the PSPGo? Is the handheld so ho-hum that people are purposefully modding it into awful things, or is it just a really hard device to work with? More » -
#lego
Lego R2-D2 Minifig Mod Adds Sound and Light
Sorry Jason. You trumped my LED Lego stormtrooper minifig with your cylon and Iron Man, but this modded R2-D2 Lego minifig kills them all with lighting and actual Star Wars astromech sounds. [Brickmodder via FBTB via Brothers Brick] -
#pspgo
Simple PSPGo Mod Hides High Price, Screen Behind Blindingly Bright Bank of LEDs
One intrepid PSPGo owner—no doubt frustrated, like Mark was, with the portable's strange pricing structure and continued lack of dual thumb sticks—has attempted to spruce it up with a bit of color. More » -
#concepts
Light Bulb Door Handle Is Pretty Much the Worst Concept Ever
And the poor hand model from this shoot will never work again. More » -
#timessquare
The Secrets of Time Square's Ridiculous Billboards
You're being punked whenever you walk into Times Square: The massive billboards assaulting your eyeballs are much higher res closer to ground than they are up top. Engadget discovers this, and other secrets, going "hands on" with Times Square. [Engadget] -
#review
Gorillatorch Review: A Lamp with a Magnetic Personality
We've all heard of Joby's renowned Gorillapods, the tough, highly flexible ball socket tripods that fit everything from dSLRs to PSPs. The Gorillatorch takes this same basic idea and pops on magnet feet and a bright LED head. More » -
#cedia09
The Best of LCD: New LED-Lit TVs From LG, Samsung and Sony Compared
The best LCD sets money can buy are lit up by LEDs, and these are the best LED TVs you can buy from LG, Samsung and Sony. They start at $3600. More » -
#ledtv
LG's Very Pretty "Seamless" SL90 LED TV Slides Out Soon for $2700
Teased a month ago with the SL80, LG's dropped price and release details on its prettiest LED TV, the "seamless" 1.15-inch thin (about two iPhones thick) SL90: $2100 for the 42-inch model, and $2700 for the 47-incher, out this fall. More » -
#running
You're No Invisible Pedestrian While Wearing Black Diamond Sprinter Headgear
The Black Diamond Sprinter is designed with the adventurous night runner in mind, but I can just as easily see this headgear transitioning into a lightweight spelunking role... and, yes, there it is—I think I just invented cave running. More » -
#hdtvs
Non Review: I Love You, Sony XBR8 Triluminos LED LCD HDTV
The delivery guy just picked up the XBR8—Sony's tri-color LED Backlit HDTV. I'm a bit sad because I'd never seen an LCD shine like that before. More » -
#sony
Report: No New OLED TVs From Sony Until "At Least Next Year"
To think: 2009 was supposed to be the Year Of The OLED TV. It's been a wash, but now that even Sony might not deliver new products next year, it looks like 2010 could be just as lame. What happened? More » -
#lego
7-inch Lego Dynamo Flashlight Stomps All Minifig Keychains
With white LED lights in each foot, these Minifig flashlights are all kinds of cool. Crank the not-so-Minifig version's arm to keep him lit, or pick up the battery-powered keychain to help get your keys in the door. More » -
#art
LED Spray Paint Makes Gangs Cool Again
While there are more than a few exceptions to the rule, most graffiti is nothing more but lame, self-serving tagging. But combine simple signatures with LEDs and slow shutter photography, and the genre is born anew: More » -
#leds
Sorry Visa, Our Credit Cards Have Light Bulbs Now
Carrying a lightbulb around in your pocket has always led to precariously sharp pocket lint. Or worse. Or worser. More » -
#homeentertainment
Samsung 8500 Series Local-Dimming LED TVs Have a Sweet Base
Yeah, the 8500 series is Samsung's first set of LED-backlit LCDs with local dimming this year and has the Yahoo widget engine for streaming video, but all I really care about is that awesome looking blue stick holding it up. More » -
#barcode
The Barcode Update You Never Asked for, but Still Need
Just a few weeks after celebrating the 35th birthday of the barcode, researchers at MIT have unveiled a promising replacement for the aging standard. More » -
#hdtvs
Samsung LED LCD UN46B7000 HDTV Lightning Review: Avoid!
Generally, I love LED LCDs. The UN46B7000 is Samsung's set with 120Hz refresh and internet widgets. It's not backlit, like the XBR8, but sidelit, and is as thin as two of your fingers. You should avoid buying this set. More » -
#notebooks
Now All the Alienware m17x's Keyboard Needs is a Unicorn
Matt told me the Alienware's m17x notebook was blinged out like it "just landed on earth after a long trip from a planet populated entirely by a evolved race of disco lights". I guess this is what he was talking about. [Crave] -
#games
Mattel Football: 1979's King of Timewasters
Mattel's Football (just "Football") was one of the most popular standalone handheld games of the late '70s, in the same ultra-addicting category as Pong and Pac-Man. It was the beginning of the end for the attention span of American youth. More » -
#imagecache
Oversized Solar-Powered LED Flowers Make For an Ostentatious Lawn
Converting things that are out in the sun to run off solar power makes a lot of sense, like lawn ornaments, these flowers or air conditioning units. Zambonis? Less so. [OGE Gallery via Mocoloco via BBG] -
#sharp
Sharp Aquos LE700 LED TVs Go Mainstream, But Where's the Local Dimming?
Sharp's jumping into the mainstream LED pool with Aquos LED (they had the pricier XS1). Sharp says theirs are better, since they make their own LEDs and use a next-gen LCD substrate. But there's no local dimming. WTF? Updated More » -
#furniture
With a Name Like 'Luminotherapy' It Hardly Sounds Seedy at All
Philippe Boulet's "luminotherapy" bed is supposed to help you sleep. But since when does light shining in someone's face help them sleep? More » -
#imagecache
Man Captured in LED
What do you get when you mold a face in acrylic and backlight it with multicolored LEDs? This. You get this. [MAKE via bbg] -
#hdtvs
JVC's 32-Inch, LED-Backlit TV Is Just a Quarter-Inch Thick
At Cedia UK, JVC is showing off its 32-inch LT-32WX50, which appears to be a close relation to the 7mm-thick GD-32X1 we heard about earlier this month. It's extremely thin, and carries it well. -
#leds
The Man With No Shadow Looks Like Kirk About to Teleport
He's the invisible man/ count the bubbles in your hand/ the summer sites/ and the southern skies. That's all that's left behind/ the skies, and a sweet caress/ he's the invisible man/ catch him if you can. More » -
#flashlight
5.11 Tactical LED Flashlight Now Available: Recharges in 90 Seconds Without a Battery
Last year we introduced you to the 5.11 Tactical Series UC3.400 flashlight claiming that it "might be the last torch you will ever need." Well, it's time to put that to the test. More » -
#lighting
Sharp LED Lightbulbs Sets the White Point In Your Entire House
Why change the camera white point when you can actually change the entire room white point and leave your camera fixed? OK, that doesn't make any sense at all, but you can do it with the new Sharp LED lamps. More » -
#hdtvs
Toshiba's First LED LCD HDTVs: The Regza XV648, ZV650, SV670
I've always enjoyed Toshiba's LCDs as they sat on the show room floor, but couldn't take them seriously until they developed some cutting edge LCDs powered by LED. Now they've got three. Updated w/ live pics. More » -
#imagecache
Firewinder Wind Light, or Photon Tornado?
In practice, the Firewinder wind light won't look quite this extraordinary. But God bless slow shutter speed photography all the same. [via Inhabitat] -
#hdtvs
Vizio Unveils a Whopping 31 New HDTVs
Vizio's been awfully busy since we last heard from them, updating three product lines with a total of 31 new HDTVs. The XVT series are more high-end, the M series is more about style, and the E is eco-friendly. More »
