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The Ubiquitous LED Becomes More Ubiquitous

Posted by timothy on from the more-meats-in-cones dept.

LiberalApplication writes "Piezoelectric generators have been mentioned here before, regarding the military's plan to integrate them into the heels of boots for the purposes of harvesting electricity from the cumulative stompage of a soldier, but now someone has come up with the idea to combine them with LEDs and cast the entire assembly into a little block of resin. Well, a stick, really. If you were getting tired of seeing little blinky lights everywhere, you ain't seen nothing yet."

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  1. Concerts... by Bugaboo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one who thinks this would be a neat thing to embed in a clear drumstick and then use at concert?

    Hell, disperse the little ones in the crowd and turn the whole place into a giant pulsating light...

  2. Re:Bicycles... by jarran · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, they need batteries, but you might be satisfied with Hokey Spokes. They even communicate somehow and sync if you have several on one wheel.