Marcel over at The Captain's Blog (the Gearsource blog) posted an article about the Main Light MF/V LED panel moving head back in the first third of June. For some reason I'm just now reading it – moving across the coutry does a number on your Firefox tabs, doesn't it? Main Light's LED panel head [...]
Read More LED, Main Light, MF/5, MF/V, moving head, Video, yokeAn Ikea hack, now with arduino! I read about this hack on the Apartment Therapy Unplugged website – it's an Ikea Granas table with 81 ShiftBrite RGB LED modules under the glass in a matrix. An arduino chip controls the LEDs and outputs a hue-saturation-value and RGB sine wave. The project as a whole costs [...]
Read More arduino, DIY, furniture, Granas, hack, Ikea, LED, RGB, RGB LEDDid anyone see the Color Web product at LDI? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was the HUGE LED NET that was on that wall at AC Lighting's booth. The product was pretty cool, and the size was just mesmerizing. For some reason I remember some guy remarking about the product to [...]
Read More Chroma-Q, cocnert production, Color Web, LED, LED netting, Steven Douglas, The KillersVicki DaSilva turned me on to Jason Eppink's ongoing unauthorized work, Pixelator. I learned a few things from researching this project, as I often do – for one, NYC's Metro Transit Authority is paying an estimated $274,000 per screen (on about 80 screens) across the city, located above subway entrances. These screens blast ads and [...]
Read More Jason Eppink, Light Art, New York City, Pixelator, Vicki DasilvaPhilips now has a section of their website to order samples of the LumiBlade OLED line – all kinds of shapes, a small selection of colors, all with a power supply. This is a very, very cool product, as many of Philips' products happen to be, and I like it. I will say this, and [...]
Read More frustrated, LumiBlade, OLED, philipsI just learned about these a day or so ago – how I missed them is beyond me, as I am always in a little bit of shock for some reason every time I discover some corporate criminality. Hitachi just pleaded guilty to a one-count felony charge in a price fixing scheme dealing with LCD [...]
Read More Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Hitachio, LCD Cartel, LG, price fixing scheme, Sharp, USDOJBarco's always busy! They're released theT-16BK series outdoor true-black LED screen – a contrast level of 7000:1, quickly serviceable, at 6000 nits brightness. They've also released the B-16, which is the mobile display version. From the press release: Kuurne, Belgium, 26 February 2009. Barco, a global leader in LED display solutions, is proud to present [...]
Read More B-16, BARCO, LED, LED screen, T-16BKWhoa. The above video is of the Impress flexible touch screen device, created by the firm Dis.Play – one of the greatest things about this project is its use of Arduino – the physical computing chip. From the Dis.Play site on Impress: Impress is the deliverance of the touch screen from its technical stiffness, coldness [...]
Read More display, flexible display, flexible touch screen, ImpressBarco has released a new device – transformable LED modules. They just released a press release, listed below: Kuurne, Belgium, 24 February 2009. Barco, a global leader in LED display solutions, takes creativity to the next level with the introduction of its transformable LED. Thanks to this brand new concept designers are no longer limited [...]
Read More BARCO, LEDBefore HP decides to call something "virtually indestructible," they should send it out on a rock and roll tour first. HP, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center just announced a prototype of a computer screen – a very, very light computer screen – that's supposed to just rock the display market. This [...]
Read More Arizona State University Flexible Display Center, flexible display, HP, SAIL technology