Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 12:39pm
Here's a DIY project for you this Halloween — a pumpkin with glowing LED eyes that will light up automatically when it gets dark. The idea of rigging some circuit board inside of a pumpkin may be a little...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 8:34pm
Fans of those old school mood rings will be happy to know that mystical Technicolor trinkets have finally invaded today's technology. KDDI and Kyocera have announced the W64SA, a phone that is designed to offer "color therapy" to users via...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 11:02am
Leave it to those sophisticated creators at legendary firm Frog Design to re-invent the light bulb. The same masters who designed some of the first Apple computers, Sony TVs, and lots of other neat stuff tackled the LED bulb,...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 1:36pm
Designer John Paul Rishea has a gallery of wild and outlandish clothing, if you've got the balls to wear them. He's created futuristic-looking collars, sets of wings and robotic gauntlets that would make robo-rockers Daft Punk drool, all sold...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 9:07am
Just as the world is getting used the cool-glowing, coil-shaped Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs), Seattle-based Vu1 has come up with a whole new bulb technology that's even better… and greener. Instead of heating a filament like in an...
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 6:52am
Outdoor lighting is nice and elegant, but a pain in the rear — what with all the stringing of cable under the ground and disturbing the groundhogs. These cool Solar Deck Lights get you yard illumination without the hassle,...
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 2:29pm
At first glance, this bench that lights up strikes us as a little ridiculous. Unless you're looking for "future-y in the cheesiest way possible" look for your sitting area, you might want to pass. But then again, there's a...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:06pm
As technology merges ever more seamlessly with our everyday life, the intersection between art and technology has become increasingly more common. Bleeding-edge Japanese artist Mutoh Tsutomu takes this art approach into new realms with his Optical Tone installation that uses...
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 9:11am
The old incandescent light bulb has had a rough time of late — what with being pushed aside in these energy-efficient times by greener technologies like compact fluorescents, LEDs and even halogens. Nevertheless, nothing is more iconic of lighting...
Friday, June 6, 2008 - 5:26am
As any HDTV aficionado knows, plasma sets have better contrast than LCDs. Sony's most recent crop of Bravia LCD sets is challenging that notion thanks to LED backlighting with local dimming. The new tech means the light behind the crystals...
