Watch a Documentary on the History of the LED - Video

Make Magazine has produced a great documentary on the history of LEDs. It turns out the Light Emitting Diode was discovered by accident, during an experiment at Marconi labs. The documentary shows you how to recreate that initial experiment yourself, if you are so inclined.

Students Create Huge and Dangerous POV Display With Spinning Blade - Video

This is one dangerous POV display. It’s called the “Display from Hell” and the name makes sense once you realize that while this display projects POV images using 100 blue SMD LEDs, it also features a propeller that could chop your arm off.

Gigantic LED Display Activated in New York City - Times Square

The long-anticipated 17,000-square foot LED display has finally gone live in front of a Times Square Walgreens today. The heart of New York City is blaze with the unit, which touts over 12 million LEDs.

Noriko-San subway mask allows you to sleep safely

Falling asleep on the subway is great, sure. However, missing your stop is not so great. A hacker named Pyocotan has built a Noriko-San sleeping mask for fashion-forward commuters. The mask alerts other passengers of your stop by way of that loud exterior LED display.

Scope 2 LED Watch is totally cool

The Scope 2 RGB LED watch has been thrust upon the world and we may never be the same again. All of us children of the 80s just about passed out at the very site of this ridiculous looking thing. It just looks cool.

Neonode concept gadgets

It was this concept art that drew me into the Neonode exhibit, and i have to admit, the concept art is super cool. These guys are taking trends to new extremes.
Neonode is also demoing a cellphone that they’re going to release commercially in summer of this year, called the N2. It’s smaller than a [...]

Tree Lights

love Europe in that special way only someone who’s lived exclusively in the United States for 25-odd years really can. Yet another fabulous reason to love Europe are these solar powered light trees, spotted last October in Vienna (as well as in Milan in November and December). Designed by Ross Lovegrove, each tree has 10 [...]

Anarchy - High Tech Style

Remember when graffiti was just in the bathroom stalls and on the sides of trains? Ahh yes, the good ‘ol days. Now, with all this high tech wizardry graffiti artists (yes they’re artists too) can rebel against the "man" in new high tech ways using LEDs

It Looks Like a Little Trash Can! Get It?

It’s not bad to have a recycle bin, since sometimes we really do want to easily retrieve something we deleted. But a 250GB recycle bin? I dunno. Folks at Franco Cagnini, who designed The Tempo, think otherwise. And, there are blue LEDs that indicate how "full" the "trash can" really is. No price or availability, [...]

Fujitsu Does Have a Way with Tablets - T2010 is Nifty

As usual, Fujitsu has cooked up some delicious Tablet PC goodness in the upcoming T2010. Check out the specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo ULV at 1.06GHz or 1.2GHz
Intel GM 965 Chipset (so, Santa Rosa)
Up to 4GB of DDR2-533 RAM
12.1" WXGA Screen with LED backlight
Intel GMA X1300 graphics (so, not a gaming machine, obviously)
Up to 120GB SATA [...]