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Diesel Revives the LED Watch in a Stylish way

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While LED watches were in vogue back in the 70s, they soon gave way to the LCD watches, driven by lower power requirements. Yet LED watches did provide their own segment light source, no backlight required.

Now Diesel has a watch that makes LED watches fun again. The LEDS sit behind mirrored plastic, and when the display is off the screen is perfectly blank.  Not only that, but the display can be set to show a custom 20 character message.  More than enough characters to say, "Do you want to go to the disco?"

The watches cost $170, and can be found at Diesel Time Frames.

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Constant Garden Soothes and Announces

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Unlike speakers that are designed to fit into your garden outside, the Constant Garden,by Vitorio Benedetti, is designed to fit the garden inside. With a speaker and an LED in each stalk, this is obviously not your typical low maintenance non-organic plant.

With the ability to play soothing “Garden Sounds” and sync with your computer’s calendar, the Constant Garden is a cross between an ambiance device and a desktop organizer.  The device will let you know about your appointments by having every stalk announce it in chorus, according to your schedule. Imagine a gathering of munchkins, swaying together and telling you,”You’ve got a meeting in 5 minutes”.  Wow.

Aloha from the Beach

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World Largest LED Billboard Appearing Soon in Times Square

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While Dubai may have the world's tallest building, New York is getting the world's largest LED Billboard. The monstrous billboard stands 212 feet tall, and it incorporates 12 million LEDs. A bit of engineering went into the huge outdoor LED sign mounting, since it weighs in at over 250,000 pounds and wraps the former Times Tower.

Walgreen is behind the 43,720 square foot mammoth monolith, and both the LED display and the store is slated to activate next fall.  Walgreen estimates that 1.6 million passers-by daily will see the sign.  Now if only this vast power could be used for good instead of outdoor advertising.

 

UPDATE

Since this article was posted, the giant billboard has gone live (November 22, 2008).  At that point, we have a video of the sign in action from a local news station, see below.  Perfect for my needs…

 

 

 

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The Self Contained Solar Bulb Charges All Day,Glows At Night

It gets dark on the Beach like it does in most places, and so finding a self contained light is always handy.  This is just such a handy device, a bulb-shaped solar cell and (I assume) a LED light combination that charges up all day and glows at night.  The Solar Bulb measures 3x3x4.5 inches, and it comes in a block of solid transaparent material.  The glowing Solar Bulb will set you back about $48, and it can be found here.  Now, if I only had about a 1000 of them I could light up the whole beach for these nighttime jaunts.  I had better keep my open for any glowing cases.

Aloha from the Beach,
greg

 

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