Built using hundreds of strategically placed LED lights suspended from threads hanging from the ceiling, the “Man With No Shadow” is a life-sized dude designed by Makoto Tojiki.
He has a sort of Dr. Manhattan thing going on, especially with that Smurf-colored Tootsie Roll he’s packing in his non-existent drawers.
Alex Beim must be a heavy drinker, ’cause I have no idea how he got so many empty bottles for his project. The LED Bottle Wall is a sight that seems appropriate for a Disney World attraction. Slews of LED lights penetrate the reflective surface of the bottles, creating an luminary effect that’s unmatched by Pink Floyd.
Now I know what Michael Jackson was finally talking about when he uttered the lyrics “Somebody’s watching me.” Clearly he was referring to the Eye Dot Me, a lamp created by Simon Schiessl and Felix Hardwood. Part of the 2009 DMY Berlin Design Festival, the Eye Dot Me features a bunch of high-powered LEDs that create the illusion of an iris inside the lamp. Great for parties, but I think it’d be a little creepy eating dinner underneath this thing.
While I’m not a Yankees fan, one can’t deny the popularity and rich history of one of the most famous baseball teams ever. Their new stadium is still being completed in time for the 2009 season that starts next month and it’s shaping up to be quite the experience. Shown above is the 103-by-58-foot 1080p display that will show fans replays, home runs and a whole lot of advertisements. It has features like picture-in-picture and can show four different video sources at a time.
Additionally, the new Yankee Stadium will feature a stadium-wide LED ribbon created by Daktroniks. It will display game info and light up like a wild rock concert when need be. And did I mention the 550 Sony BRAVIAs scattered around? It’s going to be a good year for baseball fans in New York.
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It’s 11:30pm on a Friday night and you’ve just been put on bar-tending duty at the Kappa Phi house. A new keg has just been tapped and the girls over to the right are screaming for another pitcher of Natty Ice for the beer pong table. You snap out of it and realize you have a job to do.
The Pitcher. It can hold up to 60 ounces of frothy goodness. You quickly fill it full of beer and the five bright white LEDs on the bottom of The Pitcher immediately light up. The party goes crazy. The girls are screaming. One runs up to you and grabs said Pitcher and pours its contents all over her breasts. “This is the greatest day of my life.” you think to yourself. “Oh yeah, and it only cost me ten bucks. What a fucking awesome deal!” you soon-thereafter realize. Go ahead and take a load off, champ. You deserve it.
Living in New York, you’d think I’d be pretty excited for New Year’s Eve and all. After all, millions of people cram into Times Square to see The Jonas Brothers play their hits and to watch the famous ball drop. This year, the ball will feature over 16 million colors, 2668 Waterford Crystals and 32,256 LEDs. Yes, over thirty-two thousand LEDs. Keep an eye out for it tonight as the clock strikes midnight! Happy New Year!
Looking for a no-nonsense wristwatch that tells time and sets you apart from the Tag Pack? Look no further than this watch from Japanese designer Hiranao Tsuboi. It tells time with orange LEDs in four quadrants and nothing more. Too bad I waited until the end of this post to inform you that it’s a non-production concept.
I know. It sucks.
Using an ATtiny13 microcontroller and some matrixed LEDs, hacker Randomskk designed a jar full of electronic fireflies. A bulb is picked at random and flashed on one to three times. 255 different patterns are available and the entire thing is powered by a watch battery. Seems like it’d be pretty easy to make your own. What do you think? Weekend project or five minutes of fury?
Just when you thought the Infection or the Negative were hard-to-read watches, in comes Storm’s Ambition wristwatch. It’s just a bunch of slits in a slab of metal. That is, until you power it up and the time shines through like the LEDs from your 1988 alarm clock. The Ambition comes in silver, black, brown or red finishes and retails for about $160. Not too shabby and not too crazy. Just the way we like it.
When you can’t afford a real breadboard for prototyping, you might as well turn to the next best thing: a piece of toast. Yes. This gentlemen embedded a circuit of LEDs inside a slice of bread and the end result is simply delicious.
The difference between shoving your circuit inside a piece of bread and this project is that the slice of bread actually acts as a circuit board with etchings and all. Unconvinced? Hit the jump:
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