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During January 26 to January 29, 2012, the spectacular Ghent Light Festival held in Belgium and showcased several fantastic light art pieces submitted by designer from all over the world. One of those interesting projects is this cathedral made from no less than 55,000 LED lights. The art installation is very huge, eye-catching, especially when it is turned on with all the colorful lights in the evenings. But quite surprisingly, the cathedral, though has used over 55,000 LEDs, consumes only 20Kwatt / h of electricity, thus making it both a charming art piece and energy-saving project as well.

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Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.

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“Switch” is a liquid cooled lightbulb that combines analog and digital technology to bring light into your home. It was showcased during the CES2012, coming with a digital driver in the base and some LEDs mounted on the top. With the digital driver to monitor the bulb’s temperature all the time, the fluid inside the glass globe will draw heat from the LEDs if the temperature is too high. Such a unique function not only allows these lightbulbs to be used more widely, but ensures them a better lightening result. As an additional bonus, each component of the bulbs is reusable or recyclable, making them also ideal for the eco-friendly lifestyle.

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The world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system was recently launched by Japan-based Net LED Technology Company. It’s called NetLED system, composed of LED tube with built-in Wi-Fi as well as a free NetLed app. After installing the NetLed app on your smartphone, tablets or other devices and replaced your lights with the NetLED tubes, you can then control individual, multiple, or a set of lights via the app: to dim the lights (each tube has 10 different dimming levels), to turn them on or off, or to track energy usage in real-time. Net LED says that when a company, for instance, installs 200 of these lights, its power consumption can be reduced down by up to 50%.

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Anytime, anywhere, watch what you’d like to watch, and that’s rightly the thing David Forbes’ Wearable LED TV would help you to do. The wearable LED display involves customized display boards, circuits, batteries, iPod and speakers, making it functional enough to display some videos even during your moving.  For more details and manufacturing costs, you can check out the story at Popsci.

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Ever miss the blue sky and white clouds when you’re actually working within your offices? Well for all nature lovers here is the Dynamic Luminous Ceiling Sky. It is composed of regular LCD TVs and LEDs, to simulating the natural cloudy sky and light conditions as accurately as possible. The ceiling consists of 19.6 x 19.6 inch square tiles that each holds 288 LEDs, and 11.8 inches below these lights there’s a diffuser film to create homogenous lighting that illuminates the room throughout.

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Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.

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The fields in which LED is applied are far more than what we’ve ever expected, but it’s still quite surprising to see LED lights used in building an anti-aging mask. Can LED solve our skin problems? The answer from scientists is “yes”, and it is claimed that the “Magic LED Beauty Mask” will bring young and healthy skin back to you within 7 to 21 days by encouraging collagen and elastin regeneration as LED can “stimulate fibroblast activity”.

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Launched by Japan-based Panasonic, this is the world’s first LED bulb that uses clear glass to show the light source. It features a single filament, coming with a power of 4.4 watts while lasting for over 40,000 hours. Requiring no time to get prepared, the bulb offers 100% of the light once you switch it on, and thus quite ideal for public places like the stairs and toilets. As a bonus, the bulb is announced to get a high efficiency, even remaining high lumen of 70% at end of life.

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A light signal isn’t functional enough to help you communicate with other drivers? Well, possibly the LED Light Display can. It is composed of mesh grid with about 600 LEDs, which are controlled by an ATmega AT89C51 microcontroller and play the messages you’ve already stored in the system. That means, when driving on the road, you can inform those behind you to back off, go ahead or do other things you may want with words displayed by the LED light. See what? The communication between drivers would become easier and clearer now.

Made of energy-efficient LED light and translucent fibers, the Hobo Lantern is a stylish bag that also doubles as a portable luminary. It was inspired by the urban nightlife of Zona Tortona during Design Week, and via the design Todd MacAllen aims to offer people some fashionable and functional accessories. Powered by 8 AA batteries, the Hobo can be safely used even when the LED light is turned on, and you may find it fabulous to go across the streets with a glowing bag.

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Slim, slim, slim, seeming everything nowadays is pursuing a good figure, even includes the fire extinguishers. Have a look at this one by Jinwoo Kim: it features a slim body design that fits in small storage space, thus makes it quite outstanding among common round-shaped fire extinguishers.  Besides, the Flameingo also comes with a replaceable cartridge to reduce waste; its pressure indicator and a built-in alarm also allow users to check out the status of the extinguisher more easily. When there’s fire breaking out, a LED light will soon switch on for people to find the extinguishers quickly.

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In the movie “Back to the Future Part II”, a pair of Nike shoes that came from 2015 had successfully drawn many shoe collectors’ interest. It was Nike Air Mag, intelligent shoes that can glow and tie the shoelace automatically. But in 1989, there were merely 20 pairs of shoes made as properties in movie, thus many people feel quite pity about that. Fortunately they now have another chance to get the shoes, as Nike company has decided to sell 1500 “Back to the Future” shoes all around the world. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is everybody’s duty to keep away from a drunken driving so we may need some special gadgets to accomplish that task. Men should have a try with this Breathalyzer Jacket. It is embedded with an alcohol sensor located in the collar and a simple LED display on the cuff. Thus when you blow into the alcohol sensor, the LEDs will then light up to indicate your blood alcohol levels: the more alcohol you have, the more lights turn on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is surprisingly simple to create your own chess – you firstly need to draw out a chessboard and then find some cardboard, keys, LED bulbs, or even cakes to work as chess pieces. And to offer you some inspirations, we’ve collected some here for you to check through. Just go and enjoy them. [Read the rest of this entry...]