This may not necessarily be the most practical DIY, but if you’re looking – I mean really looking – at that picture and you’re not thinking “I want to go to there,” well, I just don’t know what to tell you. More »
Almost as famous as Daft Punk’s electro-tunes are their glowing electro-outfits. And now, thanks to the chap who made clothes for their 2007 Alive tour, and an Instructables DIY page you too could don glowing gear. It looks fairly easy, as long as you’re nifty with a needle and thread: the hardest part seems to be soldering the wire’s electric contacts. There’re a bunch of tips on wire placing and sewing, and photos of EL wire patterns on everything from boots to hats. And now, if you excuse me, I’m off to persuade my missus of the benefits of a glowing bra. [Instructables via Hacknmod]
Designer Dasha Anokhina has created a concept that takes Glo pillow‘s design to a new level: REMY is a whole dawn-simulating alarm blanket. The system monitors your sleeping movements with a bedside camera. Then, near your chosen alarm time, the blanket begins to light up with an image representing your sleep pattern, waking you as if the sun was rising. And if you’re really into self-analysis, it even saves your sleep data to a USB stick so you can review it later. Could make for interesting viewing, if you’re as much of a nighttime revolver as I am. [Yanko Design]
Glowing umbrellas usually light up their shafts rather than their mushroom-like tips, but this concept “Glowing Umbrella” has a glowing parasol to illuminate your way at night. It’s lovely in the way that a black, non-light up umbrella isn’t, but is only a concept for now. If science and technology could manage to make one of these that doesn’t require swapping out batteries every other day (and make it under $50), we’d be in for four. [Tisch5 via Random Good Stuff via SciFi] More »
newVideoPlayer("glowing_mtndew.flv", 475, 376);You may recall that glowing Mountain Dew trick we showed you last month, and the debunking that Snopes gave the trick not long after that. Now here’s a likable guy who gives us an amusing demo of what a fake that glowing Mountain Dew was, showing us how it just doesn’t work. In fact, you don’t even need the Mountain Dew at all to make a foamy liquid glow like a lightning bug. He even takes it a step further with an additional ingredient of his own in this entertaining demonstration. [VidZest] More »
The Afterglow chair, designed by Douglas Homer, is the perfect present for the entomologist in your life. Allow me to do a little bit of sexy scene-setting for you. It’s a balmy summer evening and you and he/she have been making the bug with two backs for—ooh, almost seven minutes now (and that was doing it twice).
While you lounge in the afterglow, sated and unashamed, that special insect lover in your life is studying the Afterglow on the porch, checking the creepy-crawlies and roaches that climb with wild abandon over its HDPE surface. There’s an armless two-seater as well as an ottoman if you really want to glow to town. – Ad Dugdale
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These tricky folks have made some specially layered papers that take you back to your childhood bedroom, delivering glow in the dark goodness that’s ready for your inkjet printer.
Dubbed Moonglow, the range has five colour options so you can make the starfield of your dreams (hell, just cut it out if that’s what you want to do), printing up larger space objects for that photo finish.
They do a lot of A4 sheets, but you can also buy in rolls to suit huge printers — the guy on the stand was telling me about using this to print backdrops for bands. ROCK! They sell direct through the site. More images of other colours after the jump.
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