What happens when you take a four rotor helicopter and some photons? With the help of mirrors… ONE TOTALLY RADICOOL LIGHT SHOW: So what did you just see? The production by University of Pennsylvania's GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab) uses 16 quadrotors both as lighting devices, but also the mirrors they're [...]
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Our master safety ninja Erich Friend sent a link to this great toy from ThinkGeek's Geek Kids section – the Glo Nightlight with Glowing Balls! Ok, I'm not 3-7 years old (well, perhaps mentally most days) but I want one of these! Daphne, when are we getting matching Glo NightLights?!?!?! Check out this video – [...]
Read More Erich Friend, light, nightlights, Teqniqal, ThinkGeek, toysI am so excited to bring this to the web! I'm even more excited to put the work of a true DIY artisan out there to the world. All I know is that you need to hire this guy if you have something that needs done like he can do. I want you to meet [...]
Read More DIY, Gadgets, hacks, light, Mac Millan, Make, props, steampunkIt seems like the first and last things I need in the world are a programmable Vodka bottle full of vodka. However, I am for some reason drawn to this bottle of Medea Vodka, complete with a programmable LED display on the bottle. Now I will be able to program TWIIIIIILIIIIIIIIIIGHT on a bottle of [...]
Read More 11:11, holy crap that's awesome, LED, Medea Vodka, programmableI just came across this product by my favorite Russian design studio, Art Lebedev Studios. The studio has designed this interesting USB hub – modeled after the idea of a prism splitting light into the colors of the rainbow: This thing is COOL! What I love almost more than Lebedev Studios products is their process [...]
Read More Accessories, Art Lebedev Studios, design, light up nerd toys, Spectrus, USB hubLightFair 2010 – have you SEEN so many LEDs in your life?! I have to say I am having a TON of fun on the floor of LightFair 2010 – this is a conference I will be attending each year! I walked around yesterday on the floor, meeting people, getting hugs from people, and generally [...]
Read More Amanda Lynne Ballard Photography, conference, Cree LED, Ginny from Cree, Las Vegas, LightFair, LightFair 2010, OptiLED, SeaChangerOkay, for super nerd-dom I have to hand this one to Jay Rob from the Laser Pointer Forums. Jay took a 12X Blu-Ray laser (from that great supplier AixiZ) and stuffed it into one of those old Star Trek phaser toys. So now, instead of being on stun, it's set on "I'll Burn You, Mofo." [...]
Read More be careful stupid, Blu-Ray, DIY, hack, Laser, Phaser, Star TrekI love to jump rope. I love love love it. I grew up in an area in central Illinois where Double Dutch was THE grade school recess activity of choice – either jumping or watching. I grew up in a financially poor area, but the kids I grew up and went to school with were [...]
Read More electrical energy, Eu Tteum Lee, Hyun Joo Lee, kinetic energy, light toys, toysThat's right – a bar of light, er, soap, wait, no, it's a light. It's a light that looks like a bar of soap. A Soap Light. Jiyeon Ahn and Jieun Kim of the multidisciplinary design firm Luca 12:00 have created this handheld light, which, as you can imagine, fades up and out as you [...]
Read More handheld, Jieun Kim, Jiyeon Ahn, Luca 12:00, Soap LightA guy named Jakub Koźniewski created something quite awesome – using photocells, Arduino, a real-time audio synthesizer called Supercollider, and the Processing environment, Jakub created a pretty excellent audio and video controller. I wrote about the Processing environment a while ago, in relation to a project called MSAFluid. It's worth checking out the Processing and [...]
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