Brando, maker of all things cheap and USB, has graced us with yet-another beautiful USB-powered gadget. This time around, it’s an acrylic tube speaker with blue LEDs glowing inside it. Plug in your iPod/PC and get the tunes going while you play Crysis for hours on end.

At $22, you’re not going to find anything better that’s in the same speaker class. Might as well pour yourself a cocktail full of Hypnotiq and blast some Wu-Tang like it’s 1997 all over again.

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Looking for the hottest party of the year? Want to do your part and help save the planet WHILE dancing? Of course you do! Hit up the Sustainable Dance Club this weekend for $3 SoCo Limes ALL NIGHT. We’ll be re-charging our famous LED lighting system via a “rechargeable dance floor” of sorts. Futureshock will be on the decks all night and later on DJ Clue will throw down the FRESHEST OF BEATS.

SO COME ONE, COME ALL!!! THIS FRIDAY, JULY 4TH AT SUSTAINABLE DANCE CLUB. $20 COVER, REDUCED ADMISSION AFTER 1AM. 21+ ONLY

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Designer Florence Bost must be an avid reader of Gearfuse. His latest creation, City Pillows, are colorful pillows with electronic integrated into the fabric. You’ll find the TRON-esuqe EL wiring and maybe a few LEDs thrown in for good measure. Supposedly, the pillows are supposed to enhance your visual and sensual experience with them. These are what we call buzzwords.

There’s a bunch of different pillows over on Florence’s site for sale but you’ll have to contact her directly for a price. If you’re looking for a unique gift for anyone who enjoys sleeping and creativity/art, then this is the way to go.

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Japanese artist Mutoh Tsutomu has created the raver’s wet dream room. The Optical Tone installation is a combination of art, technology and science. Clad with LED light spectrums in conjunction with sensors that interact with inhabitants of the room, Tsutomu uses a special algorithm to display RGB colors. This interactively examines the problems in human perception and the recognition of dynamic characteristics of light that can’t be experienced in everyday life.

The experiment could lead to further explorations for improvement in environmental light of the digital age and research on understanding of human color perception.  In turn, this will open up a new history of visual expression and communication that not even a trip on mushrooms could prepare you for.

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It figures. A year after I move to NYC from Philadelphia, the Comcast Center is completed and the finishing touches it has are beyond spectacular. When I go back to visit, I’ll have to get some footage of this $22 million high-def video wall in action. It’s 27′ x 87′, features 10 million pixels across various modules, has six LED digitizers and a boatload of video processors. Oh yeah, it contains 27 TB worth of data.

The purpose of this huge video screen? To one-up One Liberty Place and to keep security guards entertained. The 3-D animations are apparently a real hoot to see in person. Peep the video above or stroll over to Center City to witness all that video goodness.

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Not into watches? That’s OK, ’cause not all of us are. If you gotta know the time though, I suggest scoring one of these Digital Clock T-Shirts. It’s your standard black t-shirt with a simple LED clock built into the clothing. Sure, it’ll be a bit heavy and it takes 4 AA batteries, but imagine all the ass you’re going to get at the next party the basketball team throws.

At $38, it’s a bit pricey for such a basic shirt. You’d really get your money’s worth if you integrated it into your Halloween costume.

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If you’re LED crazy, you won’t find a cooler LED anywhere else. The BlinkM-Smart LED is king over all other LEDs. It’s able to drastically change color and using BlinkM Sequencer, software that fuses a color picker with a drum machine, it can blink and fade in nearly any pattern. Make it flicker like a candle or flash like a police light. It can pretty much do anything but walk your dog for you. They’re $13 bucks a pop and are sure to illuminate your life with variety. All it requires is 5 volts applied to it in your project and you’re good to glow.
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Upon first gaze, one might think that the TIX LED Clock is actually a futuristic TV remote. In reality, it’s just another crazy clock made by some designer who got bit by the “unique and interesting” mosquito. Each digit is represented by the number of illuminated squares, making the clock tricky to read at first but something you’ll no doubt pick up on in time.

As you can see, the current time in the picture is 12:34, which should give you a better idea of how TIX works. For $50, you can score a model in either black or silver.

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Leave it to TokyoFlash to make yet another completely useless watch. This time around though, the company has created a watch I’d actually want to wear. Dubbed “Infection”, this watch emulates a colorful petri dish full of organisms (I said organisms, not orgasms. Get your mind out of the gutter.) There’s 27 multi-colored LEDs moving around that, apparently, can somehow tell you the time. Check this:

Twelve red LEDs indicate hours, eleven yellow LEDs represent the progression of time in groups of five minutes and four green LEDs show single minutes.

How the fuck am I supposed to tell what time it is if I’m wasted at the club? I can imagine the dialogue would go something like this:

Chick: Hey! Do you have the time?

Me: One second, lemme put down my whiskey check my watch.

Me: Sorry, I can’t read this fucking thing. You wanna dance?

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Step 1: Create an origami cube

Step 2: Waltz over to Radio Shack, pick up a battery and an LED

Step 3: Assemble battery and LED, shove finished product inside origami

Step 4: Get high, enjoy.

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