Do you or your family like to keep track of where you go while learning a geography lesson? If so, check out the LED World Map or LED USA Map for a fun and interesting new way to keep track of your travels with technology.
The framed maps are 35.5″x 25.5″x .5″ with a 9′ long Power Cord. The markers come in 8 brilliant colors and include 100 LEDs and 2 blinking home-base markers.
This is just one of Hi-Tec Art‘s “fun with technology” products.
High-techify your cube and light up your origami with LEDs using this Papertronics LED Desktop toys. While origami is very cool and is an art form allowing you to turn a sheet of paper into an object such as a butterfly or crane.
Papertronics are paper toys with paper electronic circuits in them. The Lunar Landers come in a pack of three: Spaceboy, Alien Girl and Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa is blank and can be designed by you. Turn them into cool night lights, party lights or fun additions to your room or cube at work. When the spaceships are put in their landers one way, they light up. Turn them another way and they turn off. They come pre-cut so you can fold them all by yourself for a fun DIY electronic origami project!
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Price: $14.99
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Happy Father’s Day!
As a father, you know your baby wants to be stylish and modern so why not allow your baby to suck away on their own super cool LED Pacifier?
The LED Pacifier is a quality pacifier with an orthodontic nipple, yup… we said nipple! The LED light turns on and off and is good for 6,000 flashes of crib party action. Pop in this pacifier and your baby will be a shining, colorful beacon of geekiness!
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Price: $4.99
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GE is continuing to push the technological envelope of light bulbs, announcing their next line of LED bulbs which have an even better eco-footprint than CFLs.
The GE Energy Smart LED bulb is a 40-watt (40w) replacement that will consumer 9 watts, produce just as much light as a 40W incandescent and last 17 years @ 4 hours per day (about 25 times as long).
The GE Energy Smart LEDs don’t contain any mercury and are cooler to the touch than either CFLs or incandescent bulbs.
These should be available in early 2011.
The USB Tube Delight Audio device is a portable sound card that connects to your computer via USB 2.0, completely plug-and-play. From there you can plug in your speakers, headphones, microphones etc. via the 3.5mm jack and enjoy some sound! As a nice touch, 2 little USB adapters are provided, depending on whether you want your tube to stick out of your computer, or perpendicular to it.
Price: $32.00
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I’m sure no one’s thought of this idea before – turning an ‘analog’ ruler into a digital one – but Shay Shafranek has done exactly that. Taking a circuit board, he placed a set of LED digits under a thing strip of wood-like material and added a reset button and little touch-sensitive buttons on the side to detect where the pencil is. The beauty of this is that it can do everything a normal ruler can do, except better of course! Drawing lines of exact length are instantly more accurate with a digital scale, the ruler can help scale drawing by setting it into scale mode (1 unit on the ruler = x units on item) and measuring long distances are easier as the ruler will add up each individual distance when it’s moved!
I think I’d be happy to pay a crazy amount for a ruler like this, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be for sale at the moment. In the mean time, there’s a really good presentation of what the ruler can do over at ShayShafranek.com.
The ‘Learn to Play’ Illuminated Fret Guitar has 132 LEDs in the fretboard that can show you how to play over 3,000 different chords! This device really takes learning how to play guitar to the next level, but has that ‘next level’ price tag of $400.
With this sort of technology, the guitar can help you learn how to play chords and simple songs within minutes, rather than having to teach yourself and really think about what you’re doing. Furthermore, being a standard shape, it allows you to progress onto real guitars without much hassle. To make this work, the guitar simply plugs into your computer to run the necessary programs for illuminating the LEDs. Although not featured at the moment, I think I’d like to see other developers offering songs for download to this piece of software.
Price: $399.95
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Feeling green while you’re in the shower? Hopefully it’s not because you’re dirty, and you just like helping the planet out. If you’re an environmental freak like some of my friends are, then this wireless and energy-efficient shower light is just the thing for you.
Made by Sylvania, the shower light is powered solely by water. Of course, that’s probably a good thing considering lots of electricity from your home outlet and water usually don’t mix together too well – something will usually end up burnt!
The cool thing about this shower light is that the light color will change depending on the temperature of the water. That way you won’t ever get the shivers if the water is too cold, or hop out of the shower screaming because it was burning hot. Intuitively, a red light means hot, and blue means cold.
Additionally, there is an on and off switch for the light if you don’t care for it. It appears to be a pretty easy install, with many reporting it taking only a few minutes.
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Price: $39.99
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ThinkGeek is helping us to keep our clock obsession going, with this matrix cube alarm clock. Each of the 3 cubes displays a pair of digits that is either the hour, minutes or seconds of the current time.
What’s cool is you can stack these blocks anyway you want. This clock even includes a snooze button. What more do you want?
Price: $34.99
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If you’re tired of jumping into the shower in the morning only to find out that its ice cold then this gizmo is designed for you. The LED Shower Light installs to your regular shower pipe and takes no more then five minutes to install. For someone like myself I must say I enjoyed the ease of installation because I typically dislike doing home repairs/improvements.
The concept is actually really simple and a two year old will quickly get the idea. Basically when the water is cold or chilly the light will shine blue, and once the water warms up to over 89 degrees F (32 degrees C) then it will turn red.
Now there is absolutely no reason to jump into the shower in the morning still half asleep and be rudely awakened by the cold rush of water to hit your body. The light also makes showering more fun for younger children as I’m sure they’ll love the LED lights that change.
Features:
* Installation takes minutes
* Red = Hot (89+ Degrees F)
* Blue = Cold/Chilly (Below 89 Degrees F)
* Don’t need to use batteries
* Roughly 4 inches in diameter
* Installs onto regular shower pipes
Price: $39.99
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