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This gadget plugs into any spare USB port, and can be programmed to light up in any color to indicate any event you can imagine, from new emails to weather forecasts. Windows, Mac or Linux.

Designer Elie Ahovi’s lightbulb uses clean, modern LED tech for illumination, but pipes it through a fiber-optic tube to provide the illusion of a classic filament. We sure hope these get produced.

This 64 pixel RGB LED grid can be programmed to display images and animations based on triggers from your computer or wireless device, as well as temperature, proximity or luminosity.

This officially-licensed Marvel t-shirt has a glowing “arc reactor” in its chest. It’s makers make no claims about it keeping shrapnel out of your heart, probably because only it runs on AAA batteries.

Who’d have guessed that Coldplay fans were such ravers. The band’s been equipping audiences with these radio-controlled LEDs for a while now but this is one of the first good vids of the impressive sight.

The NeckFX is a replacement neck for bolt-on guitars. It has LEDs embedded into the fretboard that light up whenever any string is pressed into any fret, creating a funky light show on the fly.

Copenhagen Parts’ bike lights automatically light up as soon as you stick em on your (steel framed) bike and turn off when you take them off. They come in aluminum or silicone rubber cases.

Vadim Kibardin spun off his concept and turned it into the White & White clock. Made of four white LED lamps, the digits serve as their own frame. We wish he kept the night mode option though.

Capable of significantly more complex light shows than MonkeyLectric’s basic LED bike lights, the video Pro system can actually display up to 90 seconds of full-motion video on each of your bike wheels.

Using magnetic eddy currents between itself and a metal wheel rim, this bike gadget produces light without batteries, and without touching the wheel at all. Available in headlight and brake light models.

Pablo Designs’ elegantly minimal modern lamp can turn 360° and tilts 180° to direct energy-efficient LED light wherever you need. Even has a built-in USB charging port. Post sponsored by LEXUS.

Recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium, Luminarie De Cagna added this awe-inspiring structure, illuminated by 55,000 colorful LEDs to the center of town.

Elder Scrolls LARPers might want to think about recharging with these handmade brass rings which offer a fortify restoration effect. The LED rings are available in single color or a morphing pattern.

Outputting a blinding 1200 OTF lumens using an ultra-bright SST-90 LED, this beastly flashlight is wrapped in aircraft-grade anodized aluminum. Offers lower output modes to conserve power.

While it’s doesn’t have twin helixes, Singapore’s Helix Bridge at Mariana Bay is equally dramatic, with its curved, fluid lines, covered with thousands of colorful LEDs for nighttime illumination.

Probably the coolest thing we saw at CES 2012, it uses over 6.2 million tiny LEDs, providing the smoothest, brightest, most colorful images we’ve ever seen. Too bad it’s just a prototype – for now.

We’ve seen some impressive Xmas light displays over the years, but this installation takes the cake, with 56,100 LEDs, controlled bye a custom-built computer. It’s like Vegas, only in the suburbs.

Let Wheatley (mis)guide you through the testing facility, and do your best to avoid the friendly turrets, with these cute and cuddly Portal 2 collectible LED keychain flashlights.

Aping classic incandescent bulbs, Bulled lightbulbs use energy-efficient LEDs, projecting a 330° omnidirectional light. An 11w bulb outputs as much light as a 60 watter, and lasts 80 years.

MonkeyLectric’s Mini Monkey Light M210 is a durable LED bike light that keeps you visible for evening rides; it straps to your spokes and displays full color 8-bit graphics on your spinning wheel.

Now that Argentine professional surfer Aritz Aranburu has modded his surfboard with LED lighting, we can watch him rip the waves up day or night, as seen in this vid here. (Thanks Brandon!)

Artist Christopher Poehlmann’s outdoor path lighting fixtures mimic organic tree structures and are handmade from brushed aluminum with LED illumination. Available in heights from 2 to 8 feet.

Forgive the tacky, traditional commercial and you’ll see the benefit of LightDims, reusable stick-on LED shades. Comes in two variants – one that dims LEDs and one that blocks them out totally.