Tag: Led
Now the whole world can enjoy LED assisted tweezers
If you set a date in your diary and let your eyebrows grow in anticipation of an all-day plucking session after Stu’s review of Tchibo’s ‘high-grade stainless steel corrosion-resistant’ LED tweezers (storage case with integrated mirror included), you’ll be delighted more of the same is now available online for the bargain price of $10.
Photon Light Boards – skateboarding in the dark
Ok, it’s not packed with headlights, but the Photon Light Boards will at least mean everyone can see you coming at night.
Light-up fake fur coat – become a human Christmas tree
It is indeed the season to be jolly – and you’ll look jolly well ridiculous in this LED fake fur coat by Enlighted.
Shiny Video Review: Oliver Heath EcoCentric Crystal LED Lights
Christmas must be the most environmentally-unfriendly time of the year, but luckily Oliver Heath has designed some…
Rubik's Cube who? The Fentix Cube is the 21st century fun-cube
And you thought the new Rubik’s Revolution Cube was the height of geek chic!
Designer Andrew Fentem has created the Fentix Cube, which is similar to the ‘80s playtoy we all have languishing in that draw containing rubber bands and marker pens missing their lids. Each side contains…
Under the rainbow lurks the Discovery Rainbow In My Room
Obviously with all good things in life, moderation is key. If you have chocolates often, and get given flowers everyday, you’ll inevitably become desensitised to it, until the scary day when receiving a gift doesn’t mean anything at all.
Surely the same notion works with rainbows too? That’s why I’m sceptical about the Discovery Rainbow In My Room, which splashes a prismatic rainbow arc of colour onto walls or ceilings, created by LED lights…
Salmon sperm – the new force in energy efficient LED lighting
Continuing today’s exciting DNA theme, we bring you exciting news in the often overlooked world of salmon sperm.
Andrew Steckl, a photonics expert from the University of Cincinnati, has been experimenting with biological materials in an attempt to create newer, better forms of LED lighting…
Boomerang with LED lights? Bet the Aborigines wish they'd thought of that!
I’d love to see the faces of some Aboriginal elders when they watch this LED boomerang in action for the first time – I wonder if they’d be like proud fathers watching their kid learn to walk, or shaking their head in disgust at what was once a way of catching prey for survival turn into a form of entertainment for the 21st Century.
American Eric Darnell has recently shown off his latest invention, a foam boomerang called the ‘Scimitar’ which has been affixed with LED lights. As you can tell from the picture, when thrown, the boomerang is tracked…
LED Alarm Clock made from movable, stackable cubes: not for the easily confused
Alarm clocks are boring, so quirky takes on the concept might seem like a good idea, right? The LED Alarm Clock is made up from four individual Perspex stackable cubes which can be moved around independently, thereby allowing you…
Fake colour-changing LED garden stones
Remember back in January 2006, when British secret agents were caught planting a fake stone in Moscow, kitted out with espionage gear such as microphones and cameras? I imagine that the international scandal inspired the company Wiedamark to create lights disguised as garden stones. Not exactly international espionage, but still darn sneaky…
