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100,000 blue orbs light up Tokyo river with ghostly glow

Monday, May 14, 2012 - 6:45am

Tokyo celebrated the Hotaru Festival (Firefly Festival) in style with the release 100,000 glowing blue LEDs orbs into the Sumida River flowing through the center of the city. After bobbing their way down the river, the special solar powered orbs were collected by giant nets so they could be reused.

You can make this trippy LED light cube yourself

Eileen Marable

Friday, April 13, 2012 - 9:19am

Tax time is pretty much done so you'll have some time on your hands, right? Perfect, then you can dive into this DIY programmable LED light cube project. If you don't count watching the video of it in all its swirly action, I counted somewhere around 30 "general" steps needed to make it work.

Pro snowboarder shreds the slopes at night in LED snowboard suit

Raymond Wong

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 8:25am

How do you put Shaun White's stunning snowboarding tricks to shame? Get pro snowboarder William Hughes to wear a snowboard suit covered with white LEDs and have him hit the slopes at night while a filmmaker records the entire stunt with a RED Epic camera.

Giant LED cathedral wows with 55,000 lights

Eileen Marable

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 8:34am

A glowing cathedral like structure — dubbed the Luminarie De Cagna — has stopped viewers in their tracks at the recent 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. Soaring above the street at 91 feet high and using 55,000 LEDs to light up the night sky, it's easy to see why.

LED smiles are lighting up Japan

Kevin Hall

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 8:09am

In the wonderful world of body modification, it's surprising that more people aren't doing things with LEDs. These LED smiles won't demand the same commitment from you as a body mod, but they'll draw just as many looks as your teeth flash different colors.

Funky glowing wallpaper uses LEDs to light up your room

Michael Trei

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 7:10am

LEDs are making a big splash in the lighting world, but in most applications they are simply being used to replace old-fashioned light bulbs. A British company wants to reinvent the entire way we think of lighting rooms, by creating wallpaper with tiny LEDs embedded directly into the surface.

Illuminant pendant lamp design almost eschews wire for something more aesthetic

DVICE Staff

Friday, April 3, 2009 - 4:01am

You already know how much I like lighting, so is it any surprise that I've picked Kristina Birna Bjarnadottir's lamp to write about today? Made from the same reflective fabric used in safety clothing, the Icelandic designer's Illuminant pendant light...

14 examples of cutting-edge lighting design

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:39pm

From holes in rooftops to flickering torches to glowing light bulbs — the world of household lighting has come a long way. Nowadays artists and designers alike are stretching the boundaries of form and function when it comes to...

LED Bath Light colors water according to its temperature

Kevin Hall

Friday, November 7, 2008 - 12:38pm

Instead of dipping a dainty toe into your bath to see if it's too hot or too cold like some kind of bathwater Goldilocks, just check out what color it is. At least, that's what we'd all be doing...

Yin-Yang-shaped Toyo Kitchen provides a compact, shifting cookery

Kevin Hall

Monday, November 3, 2008 - 12:51pm

The Isola S from Japanese Toyo Kitchen's "Nobody" line is one stylish way to shrink a kitchen down into a sliding Yin-Yang. Its design stems from its native Japan, where space is far more limited. Hell, I could even...

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led lighting stories

100,000 blue orbs light up Tokyo river with ghostly glow

You can make this trippy LED light cube yourself

Pro snowboarder shreds the slopes at night in LED snowboard suit

Giant LED cathedral wows with 55,000 lights

LED smiles are lighting up Japan

Funky glowing wallpaper uses LEDs to light up your room

Illuminant pendant lamp design almost eschews wire for something more aesthetic

14 examples of cutting-edge lighting design

LED Bath Light colors water according to its temperature

Yin-Yang-shaped Toyo Kitchen provides a compact, shifting cookery

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