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rainbow star led lamps add a splash of color to your room

filed under: design

Rainbow Star LED Lamps

I was digging around looking for something totally unrelated today, when I came across these nifty color-changing LED lamps from Lumenworks.

Rainbow Star lamps are minimal, modern lighting fixtures, which can be set to any of 7 different colors. You can toggle between solid colors, or set the light to gradually cycle between hues…

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September 28th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

rubik’s cube disco light: your party just got 200% nerdier

filed under: audio | gadgets | retro

Rubiks Cube Disco Light

The Retro Cube Stereo Speaker and Mood Light, in theory, brings the latest in LED and rhyhmic technology to an old familiar shape. In reality, however, it’s more like an unholy marriage between a Rubik’s Cube and the Saturday Night Fever dance floor.

This is a speaker that flashes its LEDs in time with your music, and looks like a fake Rubik’s Cube on a stand…

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September 19th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

768 led clock laughs in the face of 7-segment displays

filed under: design | timepieces

768 LED Digital Clock

With a whopping 128 bright LEDs on each digit, there’s no chance that you’ll miss the time on this clock.

Sporting a total of 768 individually addressable amber LEDs, each one of the numbers slides into and out of view as the hours, minutes and seconds tick away…

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September 18th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

storm ambition led watch: where did the time go?

filed under: design | timepieces

In the market for a modern digital watch that’s looks cool, but is still easy to read? Storm’s Ambition watches might be just what you’re looking for.

Featuring a stealthy face design that looks like some sort of bar code when the watch is dormant, you’d never know the time was hiding beneath its unassuming surface…

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September 17th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

tokyoflash negative lcd/led watch is positively cool

filed under: design | timepieces

Hot off the presses comes the latest über-cool modern watch from the guys over at Tokyoflash. Their latest creation features a reverse LCD display which lets you view the time without the need for pressing any pesky buttons.

The Tokyoflash Negative watch gets its name from its “always-on” inverse LCD display which uses oversize black dot-matrix pixels to reveal the time, day or date…

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September 15th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bandai luminodot: like a lite-brite on steroids

filed under: cool toys | gadgets | interactive

The Lite-Brite is one of my fondest childhood toy memories. Maybe it was the fact that it was THE original way to make pixel art. Or maybe it was the “living on the edge” thrill that any minute I could choke on one of the of hundreds of tiny candy-like pegs. Delicious…

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September 15th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

hidden radio: this futuristic mushroom masks a cool radio

filed under: design | gadgets

Hidden Radio

The Hidden Radio by John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen is designed to make the human-radio interaction more intuitive and less cluttered. Also, it’s designed to make your radio look more like a futuristic mushroom than a regular radio.

So how does it work?..

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August 30th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

calling all sk8r boys: nixon watch with skateboard inlays

filed under: design | timepieces

Nixon Rotolog RePly Watch

Nixon is coming out with yet another awesome watch. The Rotolog RePly watch is inlaid with reclaimed skateboard parts.

This is recycling at it’s best. Thin strips of reclaimed skate decks are artfully layered to create a unique and colorful watch. It would make the perfect accessory for the erstwhile punk teen turned corporate bad-a$$…

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August 29th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

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