Tag: Led
Colour-changing tap light turns red when 30°C
Who wants boring blue-tinged transparent water flowing from your taps when you can mod your system up with some speccy COLOUR-CHANGING lights? It’d be like a party in your bathroom, just add some doof doof music and you’re off!…
SEE toys: A range of eco-friendly toys charged by kid-power
The Zen Design Group is to launch a range of children’s toys which feature LEDs powered by a hand crank that the child operates to provide power to the rechargeable batteries.
SEE Toys (Safety, Ecology, and Economy) include Dynafly, a laughing bug which moves its arms and head and whose eyes and tail light up with LEDs when the crank is turned.
“I wasn’t trying to be trendy,” said company president, Sun Yu. “I looked at my product line one day and thought about how nice it would be to not have to replace and purchase batteries. The product I wanted to make just fit into the times.”
Scientists invent immersive 3D video system
Or, to give it its full name, the Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope.
Fortunately, it has a shorter nickname – TWISTER.
Price put on Daft Punk's robotic heads
The maker of the band’s LED robot helmets are putting them up for sale – with fans asked to pay $65,000 and seek permission from the band first. You’d have to be one hell of a fan.
Asustek one of first companies to launch LED backlit notebook computer
Asustek Computer, who make PCs under the Asus brand name, will launch their first notebook computer featuring an LED backlit display screen on March 7 in Taiwan. Most current laptops use CCFL (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube) technology because it's currently…
Mac laptops to get LED-backlit LCDs?
Now that the iPhone is out in the open we can once again focus on the other rumours surrounding Apple products that were overshadowed in the run up to Macworld. One is that Apple will ditch CCFL (cathode fluorescent backlights)…
CES 2007: LG's portable projector
More from goodies from the Texas Instruments DLP booth. This time it is an ultra mobile projector from LG. It is called the HS101 and it uses LEDs to provide illumination as these don't get nearly as hot as a…
Website of the Day: The LED Museum
Today's Website of the Day is The LED Museum, a site dedicated to the humble yet versatile Light Emitting Diode. It's been online for over 7 years and Craig Johnson says he's put over 31,000 hours of his life into…
LED Blow On-Off Candles
Candles might create a mood in your living room, but there's always a danger when you're using a naked flame. Never fear – technology has some to the rescue, with the LED Blow On-Off Candles. Yes, they're candles – but…
