Forget looking at the mood ring on someone’s hand to know how she feels. Now it’s the chair under her cute bum that’ll reveal all. And the LEDs and embedded micro-chips on it are way cooler than bubblegum machine trinkets. More »
Designer Billy May has come up with his Torn Lighting concept as a discreet way of adding some light to your apartment. The installations conceal LED lights, and look like you’ve got some kind of weird space-time holes torn into your walls and leaking light into your room. Pretty neat, and a nice way of getting mood light from LEDs without the risk of you being dazzled by their exposed faces. Now if only there was a way to animate the walls to get a proper rippling effect… [Yanko Designs]
These aren’t LEGO in the way that actual LEGO are LEGO, but they are translucent bricks that you can stack on top of each other to build structures. In this case, the structure is a tower with a hole in the middle for a light to go, which then passes through the various colours you’ve set up to induce one of several moods. The redder the construction, the…let’s say angrier you’ll feel. The yellower, the most you’ll feel like taking a whiz. Thirty-five US bucks gets you one. [Brando via Geekalerts via Slashgear]