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- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Where are my cheap LED lightbulbs, damnit?
- DareD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wonder if my neighbors would have an issue with me doing this to my house... hmm...
- Caulfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How is the new Allianz Arena (football stadium) in Munich not on this list?
- brucebarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2LED's and architecture may be an unfortunate mix, in that LED's have the potential to be sooo 2006, whereas architecture should last for a very long time. Some of it looks pretty tacky. If function drives the use of LED lighting, great. I was disturbed to read of the application on the bridge where the intent of LEDs was to reduce maintenance costs by disguising the rust! It'll look really cool when the whole works collapses into the bay, pretty lights and all!@
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ooh, I've seen this one:
http://blog.wired.com/ledarchitecture/index.album?i=14
It's really cool. It reminds me of those shows at DIsney World where they spray mist through the air, and project a short video clip onto the mist. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2LED is like the new NEON. Pretty cool IMO.
- marix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just relax. surface rust will happen very soon where as completely rusting through of any stress members will take several hundred years. while your waiting, find something better to bitch about.
- Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Legacy"? "Impact"? What are you talking about? It's just dead ugly. I was having a bad 80's flash-back as well, and it was scary.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From that article:
While LED lamps emit visible light in a very narrow spectral band, they can produce "white light". This is accomplished with either a red-blue-green array or a phopshor-coated blue LED lamp.
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED#Blue_and_white_LEDs
The newest method used to produce white light LEDs uses no phosphors at all and is based on homoepitaxially grown zinc selenide (ZnSe) on a ZnSe substrate which simultaneously emits blue light from its active region and yellow light from the substrate.
A new technique just developed by Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, involves coating a blue LED with quantum dots that glow white in response to the blue light from the LED. This technique produces a warm, yellowish-white light similar to that produced by incandescent bulbs. - MuddyPitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wiith the exception of the friggin' motorola ad "growing" on every photo, very cool digg.
- reticular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how could they not have chanel ginza in that list:
http://images.google.com/images?q=chanel%20tokyo&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1vechular distraction...If this can be done why are we not using LED lights in the home in a cheep basis for lighting instead of 60-100watt light bulbs. (yes) i have seen the expensive ones but led lights could and should be used for lights in the home for under a dollar.
- BarriedaleNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is, I admit, very shiiiiiny and sweet but in terms of energy efficiency it would be better to turn all exterior lighting off as it no real function other than looking nice. It would also help lower light pollution in our cities.
They do look good tho... - evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow @ agbar tower. Shiny phallic symbol!
- brucebarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Universal home use is coming. Cost, light distribution and colour spectrum are still issues, but with the kind of energy savings available, it's a matter of when, not if.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate to break it to the people spouting on about cheap LEDs ....the only way to get CHEAP LEDs is to jump on ebay and buy them from the people in hong kong (who also only take paypal, which is lame and not a great way to conduct business).
And on top of that, bullet shaped led's are absolutely useless when trying to do custom projects. Does anyone ever think to make square leds? You know, bright ones, not the contol panel indicators. Or maybe make a larger lineup of diffused led's so people can use them in acrylic or plexi and have the light diffuse throughout the sheet. OR maybe make regular led's with larger viewing angles. OR maybe make premade shaped bars of leds that dont required individual soldering. OR maybe tweak the voltages so you can fit more than 5 on a single string.
LEDs have a long way to go. The lighting industry would benefit if they actually made ***** everyday people could use. Where's my 4'x8' EL sheet that doesn't cost $10,000? Gimme a ***** break. LEDs are a joke right now. - Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You like Disney World?... Maybe this is the problem. I don't want to live in a Disney World.
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just wait for large oled panels
- enigmaobscura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool! I'm not usually enamored with the intersection of art and technology, but in architecture it certainly leaves a great mark. Then again, I've always been intrigued with neon, so this is something like an extension of that. Good posting.
- yellowperil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the Agbar tower was designed by Hugh G. Recksion
- Valleye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I partially agree. It is cool to see pretty lights, video walls and dynamic buildings but where is the legacy. Without power or upkeep they buildings will not create impact generations from now. I am still awe-inspired by architectures of churches and libraries of the past.
- mohaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think you are off on the efficiencies of LED vs Fluorescent.
While the current production generation of production LEDs are less efficient then fluorescents, this is about to change. Fluorescent lighting normally runs around 85 lumens/Watt, and read that LEDs are running at over 100 lumens/Watt in the lab. - mabufo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bet the building just looks silly during the daytime.
- jiltedcitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn i tried to digg this and all it would do is post back to the submit page. Is this the new way of telling you that its already dugg?
- StupidUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The single best use of LEDs I have ever seen was at a NIN concert a few weeks back (My Petzl headlamp rates a close second).
- sinmerchant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@greenvortex: Your blanket statements about fluorescent being more efficient than LEDs are misleading. While LEDs are not ideal or as efficient as fluorescent for some applications such as large-area lighting, for small-area lighting they often are the best available option when considering the multiple factors in real-world light use (energy consumption, service length, type of application, etc.) LEDs and their cousins OLEDs are still in their infancy and gains in efficiency and price point are highly likely as more research is conducted, yet according to your post this is a dead-end technology.
Aside from that, your claim that people will pay more for an inefficient and expensive technology because "they think it's cool" might be true for a small number of geeks, but in the real world most people base their decisions on what is cheapest and most readily available. That's one reason why so many incandescent bulbs are still in use; they're cheaper up front than any other light source and available everywhere. Seems to me like you have an agenda, or maybe you're just in love with your own research - which, by the way, is almost 2 years old and hardly addressing the state of the art in LED technology. - frem001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My friend (who did and internship at uva) helped create moving images for Kabaret Prophecy, this club would be cool except for the loser clients that frequent it.
- JeffHaas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Are we going to have buildings everywhere looking like this?? How obnoxious. It's bad enough to have giant moving, lighted video billboards when you're driving, now the world is going to start looking like Minority Report.
- stevevmwx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Building Bling!
Next will come buildings with low rider suspension and doof-doof music =) - greenvortex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Here's a link to an article and video for the "movable LED" application (the middle picture on the first page of the article). http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/resources/newsroom/pr_story.asp?id=60
Apparently, LEDs are poised to leapfrog over fluorescent to take over residential lighting, even though fluorescent is already more energy efficient than LEDs are hoping to become. And even though color rendering is better with fluorescent. The problem is almost everybody believes the urban myths about fluorescent: they make you look green, they hum, they don't dim. Well, that was true, in the 1950s. Those cruddy fluorescent lamps were outlawed in the 1990s (except for shoplights). You can light your home with fluorescent today and save 75% of the energy you spend on lighting energy. But you won't. You'll wait for LEDs which will look worse and cost more, but you'll like them because you believe they are cool. Read this for a comparison of the color and energy properties of different light sources: http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/publicationDetails.asp?id=901 (I co-wrote it.) - Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Shiiiiiny!
- ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Sweeeeet. Dugg!
Thanks for the post. - abbtech, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I was thinking the same thing before, LEDs are very good for many applications however for things like room lighting they are not as efficient as florescent (yet). Here is a great article about it. http://www.wbdg.org/design/efficientlighting.php
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http://hackedgadgets.com - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3LEDs are so lame. This reminds me of a bad fad out of the 80s.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Gorgeous
Offtopic: I can't wait until holographic advertising.
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