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    Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting

    Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs

    Friendly Dragonfly Streetlamp Helps You Forget Big Bro Is Watching

    Art Lebedev Tackles the Traffic Light: Square is the New Circle
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    10/17/09

    In reply to Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
    I dunno why, but WANT! #design
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    Image of Coolmodo Coolmodo
    10/17/09

    In reply to Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
    It has something Fifth-Elemtish about it, I like it. #design
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    10/16/09

    In reply to Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
    I like it! But I'll wait for the Instructable on how to steal one off the highway and mod the wiring to a normal household plug. #design
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    10/16/09

    In reply to Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
    Inadequate? That thing would be so damn bright. #design
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    Image of kernow kernow
    10/16/09

    In reply to Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
    cool a light up urinal. #design
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    It's a couple of seconds in, but ITV (UK channel) has a little clip, most likely CG, with some moths flying around a lamp. Looks kinda cool to see it in motion.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    Thats totally cool. When I was a kid we used to sit and watch the bats dive at the bugs around the street lights. We used to throw a pepple up to try and confuse the bats, and they always dove for them.
    Man, I had a totally lame childhood.....
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    Image of uncle_jojo uncle_jojo
    08/11/09

    @Curves: We used to catch what we called in West Texas "mayates"... these huge black harmless beetles that made a lot of noise. We would tie a string to one of their legs and have them buzz around. They always broke free... Not lame at all... How many people can say they played with bats during their childhood?...
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/11/09

    @Curves: pepple=pebble. Damn Lsydexia.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/11/09

    @uncle_jojo: My dad would catch what we call June Bugs and tie a string to them, which, now, as an adult, I see as kind of cruel, though we always let them go eventually. We used to get empty jars and go hunting for fireflies at night. I was covered in poison ivy, mosquito bites and dirt and was having the time of my life.
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    Image of Spaztrick Spaztrick
    08/11/09

    @Curves: I liked the idea of throwing people up to try and confuse the bats.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/11/09

    @Spaztrick: Get vid of that please.
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    08/11/09

    @Curves: I didn't even realize you misspelled it until I saw your 2nd comment...
    Lysdexia scus.
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    Image of vqro vqro
    08/11/09

    @Curves: Lame??? No way. You should be grateful you didn't have something like a Nintendo to rot your brain. Kids these days don't know anything beyond video games and computers. They couldn't recognize a bat if it bit their asses.
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    Wow, the ones hat make a perfect curly-q are pretty cool. It kind of looks like a the beginning of a really old movie.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    Interesting way of tracking the paths the bugs fly. I'm surprised how many of them flew in recognizable patterns (like the spiral-y ones), instead of the random, aimless way they look on my doorstep.
    Side note: I'd like to see this done in motion. Sounds like a job for After Effects!
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    Image of Brandon Statton Brandon Statton
    08/11/09

    @OCEntertainment: the spiral-y ones are ones that have reached their ultimate goal, the light. only to have died in the process due to the heat. the spiral is a result of their post-mortem paralysis's flight path.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    08/11/09


    @Brandon Statton: :-D
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    Image of Brandon Statton Brandon Statton
    08/11/09

    @OCEntertainment: my doctorate was in the Projected Flight Path of Dead Birds and Insects, with a specialization in streetlamp related deaths.
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    You should check out the "Magic Made Out of Street Walkers & Bugs" series. Revolting, yet captivating.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/11/09

    @DustyButt™: No link? Its easier to have you list it than to look it up myself, since I am lazy. ;)
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
    darn rednecks and your backyard entertainment.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    08/11/09

    @Nick: I love Nick: I just got a new entertainment center: Two bird feeders and a pellet gun
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    04/17/09

    In reply to Friendly Dragonfly Streetlamp Helps You Forget Big Bro Is Watching
    Make them IR LED's, and I will gladly install this as a JerseyCam, so I can stop leaving my Lava Lamp on at night.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/16/09

    In reply to Friendly Dragonfly Streetlamp Helps You Forget Big Bro Is Watching
    No one would ever expect the Butterfly. Muha ha ha ha ha


    Photobucket

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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I knew all along....


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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/16/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Oh sweet fancy Moses. Why??
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    04/17/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: "suspects"
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/17/09

    @YoSoyHe-Man!!_GitEmSteveDave: Yeah, caught it right after I posted, but there was no use, and no preview :(
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    04/17/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Dear Gods and Jevus on wheels, I see it even AFTER I close my eyes. Must not blink!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/22/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev Tackles the Traffic Light: Square is the New Circle
    I'm sure we'll see these on the roads around the same time as we see the flying car.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Oh but then we'd need hovering traffic signals for the flying cars...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/23/08

    @Jrsy is back to being the dude, playing the dude disguised ...: I'm sure Mssr. Lebedev will have an actual production model for that around the time we're using teleporters.
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    Image of Gazoogleheimer Gazoogleheimer
    11/22/08

    In reply to Art Lebedev Tackles the Traffic Light: Square is the New Circle
    So, what is the actual improvement here?
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    Image of skyline6 skyline6
    11/23/08

    @Gazoogleheimer: You should read the article and not just look at the picture next time buddy... :)

    it explains why its better in it...
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    Image of fargi fargi
    11/23/08

    @skyline6:

    Better than what?

    Old lightbulb signs?

    Sure, but the idea of using LED is far from new. You can see a lot of those around Europe or Asia. For obvious reason: longer life, failure of few LEDs is not a big deal, and much better visibility during the day.


    As for the square "innovation", I don't see how it improves the red-yellow-green part of the light... and for other displays (counters, arrows and so on) it also already exists (again, Europe, Asia).


    Thanks Art, looks nice, but nothing new.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/23/08

    @fargi: Actually, LED on stop lights has been used a lot here in California. And what's up with the "efficient use of space" crap. It's a traffic signal not a marquee display.
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