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iLute LED Marquee Letters

iLute LED Marquee Letters
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iLute makes LED-illuminated marquee letters and symbols that are great for personalizing rooms and establishments. Each letter stands about 12″ tall and is designed to have no visible screws. The LEDs are rated to last up to 50,000 hours.

The Light Desk Lamp

The Light Desk Lamp
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Instead of casting light directly from its three sunlight-color LEDs, Balmuda’s unique desk lamp reflects light forward, preventing the user’s shadow from falling in front of them. It has six dimmer settings and has a storage compartment in its base.

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Panasonic Any-Battery Flashlight

Panasonic Any-Battery Flashlight
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Panasonic’s chunky little LED flashlight isn’t a picky fella. It gets its name from the fact that it can be powered by one or more of a variety of battery sizes: D, C, AA or AAA. It lasts up to 86h and can also be used as a lantern.

SteelSeries QcK Prism Cloth

SteelSeries QcK Prism Cloth
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If you liked the idea of SteelSeries’ QcK Prism mouse pad but you think it’s too expensive, check out the company’s new QcK Prism Cloth. It has the same grippy cloth surface as the QcK Prism as well as two programmable LED zones. It’s available in two sizes.

DIY LED Timber Floor Lamp

DIY LED Timber Floor Lamp

Modustrial Maker teamed up with fellow builder Jonny Builds to transform a huge honkin’ wooden timber beam and sheets of steel into a sculptural ambient floor lamp, loaded up with LED strips that display patterns in reaction to music. We want one of these in our office.

Finger Fireworks

Finger Fireworks

Dance crew XTRAP’s act includes a series of numbers that use led-adorned gloves to show off the performers’ smooth and precise finger tutting movements. Kuma Films captured a more intimate solo performance as well.

Herston Self-balancing Lamp

Herston Self-balancing Lamp

This elegant desk lamp wonderfully marries form with function. It uses cast-iron weights in a counter-balance mechanism to make it easy to adjust the lamp’s height and length. It also uses conductive materials on the joints instead of cables to transmit power.

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DIY LED Trampoline

DIY LED Trampoline

The guys from electronics site Adafruit Industries show off a fun project you can make for yourself – a trampoline with a cool LED light ring. The lights aren’t just colorful, they can be triggered based on when you jump up and down. Full build guide and parts list here.

Nanoleaf Canvas Light Panels

Nanoleaf Canvas Light Panels

Nanoleaf’s new Canvas are modular light panels that are square and can be arranged in an offset manner instead of just a grid. They can be set to change patterns or colors with a touch or a swipe. They will be available soon for $300 for a pack of nine.

TRiLIGHT ShopLight

TRiLIGHT ShopLight

We’re loving the Striker TRiLIGHTs we’ve got in our garage, and now we have to get our hands on this slick shop light. This handheld version of their adjustable LED light gives you 3000 lumens that you can aim exactly where you need it, and offers a cool touch surface.

RovyVon Aurora A2 Mini Flashlight

RovyVon Aurora A2 Mini Flashlight
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It may be small, but this little keychain flashlight is mighty. It packs a 550 lumen CREE XP-G3 S5 LED, set into a durable stainless steel case with PVD coating. It weighs just 1 oz, measures 2″ long, is IPX-65 water-resistant, and has a built-in micro-USB rechargeable battery.

The LED Piano

The LED Piano

This slick piano has an display on top which shows the upcoming notes a la music video games, and LEDs that light up in reaction to the keys its pianist hits. Sadly, you can’t purchase this custom keyboard, so we’ll just have to drool over Rousseau’s one-off creation.

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LIFX Mini Lightbulb

LIFX Mini Lightbulb

LIFX’s Mini LED bulbs offer an affordable way to enter the world of home automation and smart lightbulbs. Available in color and white versions, the Mini emits 800 lumens of light and works with Apple HomeKit out of the box.

3D Illusion Animal Lamps

3D Illusion Animal Lamps
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Artist Cyril Bagnost presents a cool take on 3D acrylic illusion lamps, with whimsical low-poly designs cut precisely to the outline of the animal. The bulldog and panther are pretty sweet, but we also dig his Jeff Koons-inspired balloon dog. Lamps are powered via USB.

Cordless RGB LED Lamp

Cordless RGB LED Lamp
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Add a warm glow or a splash of color to any room with this USB rechargeable LED lamp. It can run up to 11 hours in nightlight mode, or 2 to 3 hours at full brightness for reading. Select from hundreds of colors, and never change a bulb with its 35,000 hour estimated life.

LED Pixel Costume Light Show

LED Pixel Costume Light Show

A demonstration of four incredible LED-illuminated costumes created by high tech scenery and costume makers Stigma for EKRAN. While there’s more standing around and posing than dancing here, the costumes are the real star of the show.

LED-Equipped Drone Photography

LED-Equipped Drone Photography

Rctestflight shows off some eyepopping desert aerial photography, the most impressive of which are the nighttime shots starting at 1:09. They used multiple drones – one to capture the imagery and another to provide illumination using a powerful 1kW LED light source.

LED Tracing Pads

LED Tracing Pads
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For decades, artists had to rely on clunky old lightboxes if they wanted to trace a subject. We recently discovered modern lightboxes, which are thin and portable. They use bright white LED illumination and USB power. There’s a good variety of styles and sizes over on Amazon.

Moonline

Moonline

We can only imagine how amazing it is to paraski down the slopes in Chamonix. But Red Bull Speed Rider Valentin Delluc did that one better, by gliding over the powder in the darkness of night, illuminated by LED lights under his wing, and the full moon above.

Light Stax

Light Stax

A fresh take on snap-together building blocks, each oversize Light Stax brick has a built in LED light source. When placed on the powered base block, your creation lights up. Available in sets ranging from 12 pieces to 102 pieces, as well as an educator’s set with multiple power bases.

LumiSource LED Chess Set

LumiSource LED Chess Set

This unique chess set features glass pieces with LEDs inside of them, providing a soft glow of light from each one. The lights use inductive power so they only glow when placed close to the board, and don’t require individual batteries. In blue/white or blue/red combos.

Digital Snowfall

Digital Snowfall

Make: author Caleb Kraft came across this nifty plaything by Mike’s Electric Stuff, which uses sensors and a cylindrical grid of LEDs that simulate falling snow or sand as it’s flipped end-over-end. Mike needs to turn this thing into a toy you can buy. He’d sell thousands.

Color Swing

Color Swing

Digital Habits shares a concept for a pendant lighting fixture which is capable of detecting the predominant color of the surface beneath it, then changing its own color to match. It may not have much practical application, but it’s still a really cool design.

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