lights

Kickstarter: Spark Connects Your Lightbulbs To The Internets

The Internet is a many-splendored thing. For some it is a fount of knowledge and others a fount of porn. But for those with the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sparkdevices.com/demo">Spark</a>, it

Acriche unveils first 100 lm/W AC LED light

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/A4img-620x443.jpg" />I like the idea of LED lights, as I'm sure you do, too. Like you, I dislike the inefficiencies of incandescent bulbs

Show your love for illumination and keyboards with this USB key light

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/usbkeypresslight.jpg">People at work know you even though they haven’t met you. “Oh, Carl? Yeah, the keyboard guy. Dude LOVES keyboar

Ikea selling $20 solar-powered desk lamps

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ikea.jpg" alt="ikea" />In case you hadn't heard, Ikea is on the solar bandwagon. After pumping $75 million into various environmentally-susta

Well now, IKEA makes solar-powered lights

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ikeasol.jpg" />What's that dumb joke, something about “why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway”? That logic doesn't real

DIY LED lamp for your bike

This looks pretty cool, even if it could be mistaken for being steampunk. I like being able to have my light blink, personally, but it would also be nice to be able to mess with the LEDs or put in col

GoodNiteLite: For the love of God, let me sleep… oh

This odd nightlight is actually quite interesting. You set the “wake-up” time on this thing and plug it in in your kid’s room. You then explain to Junior that when the sleepy moon is

LED shower light turns blue when cold, red when hot

If you’re like me, you’ll agree that there’s nothing in the whole wide world that’s quite as bad as getting your hand wet. I hate it! So it pleases me greatly to see this $40 s

Sound-activated LEDs could prevent injury

[photopress:soundled.jpg,full,center] If that bar I got kicked out off at the weekend had these LED lights along the staircase, I may not have fallen down them, resulting in my current minor injuries.

Floating lamp: Balloon with built-in LEDs

[photopress:floating_lamp2.jpg,full,center] Every one of y’all needs to petition the designer of the floating lamp, a balloon with an LED base. Fill her up with helium and you’ve got, yes,

Crazy Guitar Hero Christmas lights mod

What do you get when you mix Christmas lights, massively intelligent cubicle dwellers, Python, open source electronics, and a Guitar Hero controller? A crazy light show that I would call one of the co

Look at the pretty lights

I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of light art. It’s just about the neatest thing out there in terms of non-traditional mediums of artwork. It also helps that they’re reenacting

Unroll Your Own Portable Lighting System

If you’re one of the tens of people who need portable lighting solutions, you’re going to love the Lampada Metro Roll-Up Lighting system. The lights start out looking sort of like a roll o

Gnarly Alarm Clock Has Light Instead of Buzzer to Wake You Up

It’s no Clocky, but this alarm clock innovates in a way that’s charming in and of itself. Rather than just having an annoying buzzer, not unlike the sound of creeping death to wake you up,

The Bill of Lights: Maunfacturers Need to Stop Putting Useless Lights Everywhere

It was the blinking of the hideous lights! Computerworld’s Mike Elgan is angry at gadget manufacturers who put silly, useless lights all over today’s gadgets. Computer monitors have lights

Lightcast: Because Paul Van Dyk And Three Hits Of X Aren't Enough

Only those into partying hard should pay attention here, but stick around for the bad jokes. Lightcast is basically a house for 33 multicolored LEDs which will project onto your ceiling to – wai

Therapie Mood Lighting

We all know that light affects ones mood. Make your room consistently like a dank cellar and you’re likely to morph into some nefarious Dick Cheney-like character. Lots of sunlight and such and

Hunker Down with the Vector Tough Brite Storm Tracker

These things look ridiculous, but they’re such an immense utility for everybody, especially those of us who live in disaster prone areas (like me). Aside from looking like something out of a bad