Whats your smile color? LED Smile, Japanese new fashion trend.

A new concept of smiling, originally created by two Japanese designers, Mr.Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, is now a popular trend amongst Japanese. So you may be thinking whats new in their smile ??? Their smile is colorful...... literally :P, these "fronts" contain bright multicolored glowing LED lights.

The new fashion accessories were originally created as an experiment by two Japanese designers and are now being used in a commercial advertising a winter sale at a Japanese clothing store, Laforet Harajuku.

Whats your smile color? LED Smile, Japanese new fashion trend.

Chinese scientist demonstrate 2 Mbps Internet connect with LED

LED data transmission used to be all the rage -- we fondly remember beaming Palm Pilot contacts via IrDA. Then we got omni-directional Bluetooth and building-penetrating WiFi, and put all that caveman stuff behind us. But now, scientists the world over are looking to bring back line-of-sight networking, and the latest demonstation has Chinese researchers streaming video to a laptop with naught but ceiling-mounted blue LEDs.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences claims to have realized a 2Mbit per second internet connection that transmits data simply by modulating the flicker of the little diodes, and imperceptibly enough to have them serve as room lighting as well.

Like Boston University before them, the Chinese scholars see short-range LED networks controlling smart appliances. It's not quite the gigabit speed you'd get from laser diodes.

Chinese scientist demonstrate 2 Mbps Internet connect with LED