FINALLY! I've seen the LED jackets!
I keep missing these things at conventions I've gone to, only to later have people tell me about how cool they were. The company is nyx Illuminated Clothing, but since they don't seem to have a website, and neither does their business card, you can just check out what Gizmag has to say. They were my first intro to these jackets last year. I totally love LEDs. These were all I hoped for and more, too. They were blindingly bright, especially the front panel, which is 16x16 killer-bright orange, while the back is 32x16 red. The panels are flexible - they're not like a block glued to the jacket. There's a button inside the lapel that switches between several modes. One scrolls text horizontally, one is a bouncing bars screen saver, one creates a bargraph VU meter that displays a full-width graph of whatever the jacket hears, which was fun to watch scramble and bounce as he spoke, and the one pictured here does starbursts of random, or possibly Game-of-Life interactions (though it was seriously high-speed, meaning it probably was just some form of random or pre-built output). More info in the next pic.
FINALLY! I've seen the LED jackets!
I keep missing these things at conventions I've gone to, only to later have people tell me about how cool they were. The company is nyx Illuminated Clothing, but since they don't seem to have a website, and neither does their business card, you can just check out what Gizmag has to say. They were my first intro to these jackets last year. I totally love LEDs. These were all I hoped for and more, too. They were blindingly bright, especially the front panel, which is 16x16 killer-bright orange, while the back is 32x16 red. The panels are flexible - they're not like a block glued to the jacket. There's a button inside the lapel that switches between several modes. One scrolls text horizontally, one is a bouncing bars screen saver, one creates a bargraph VU meter that displays a full-width graph of whatever the jacket hears, which was fun to watch scramble and bounce as he spoke, and the one pictured here does starbursts of random, or possibly Game-of-Life interactions (though it was seriously high-speed, meaning it probably was just some form of random or pre-built output). More info in the next pic.