Light Strips for Home Decoration?

Smegoid asks: " Three cheers for light strips for case mods and all that, but what about light strips for interior TRON style design? Wouldn't mind Tron'ing out my apartment. Anyone know a source for strips longer than 1.5m? What about powering the stuff without using a computer power supply. The potential for light strips goes well beyond a computer case. Think lightcycles, think MCP!" I wouldn't go as far as TRON but a room tricked out with a nice glow-light would make for a really cool effect. If case strip mods aren't an effective way to get this kind of look, is there another way to go? Long before I discovered light strips, I thought that fiber optics and some colorized light source might be the way to go, but what kind of light sources work best with fiber for best described as "mood lighting"?

Comments

New GE bulbs

[Taylor_Durden]

I am a lighting product engineer for GE, and our new 'RealLight'(tm) bulbs are very good for this type of lighting. Also, you'd be patronizing a fellow /.er :-))

Re:New GE bulbs

[Rude Turnip]

I hate those fscking light bulbs! They burn my eyes because they're so bright. They remind me of those imported cars with the superbright/white headlights that also burn my eyes when they're in the opposite lane.

Here's a news flash for you..."Real Light" for normal living beings is not painful, stark white. Real light should have a bit of yellow in it to emulate sunlight.

I can't wait for them to burn out in my lamps so I can go back to regular bulbs or perhaps compact flourescent. If you switch a light on and off really fast several times, will that cause them to burn out prematurely?