Pillow Lites

September 6th, 2005 by Al in Home Gadgets, Wacky Gadgets

Pillow Lite
The Philips R & D team have been busy of late and found a way of weaving LED lights into fabric material, which they are calling photonic textiles. The special material is as soft as conventional fabric and can be used as bedding or even worn.

They currently have prototype pillow cases that can display scrolling SMS messages and our working on higher resolution models that can play various animations.


Fabric Lite
A novel use for it could be customisable T-Shirts playing constant animations, how annoying would that be :), hehe you could also make a T-Shirt that looks like an X-Ray machine.

This also could be a way to make an invisibility cloak, where it would basically show a picture of what is behind it. Hogwarts here we come.
You can find more info and images at Philips Research

  • email to friend Email to a friend
  • Leave a comment Leave a comment
  • Share Share

Join and subscribe to our free daily digest

Post a Comment


You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>



  • Signup because it's Friday

  • Add to Google Reader or Homepage
  • RSS
  • Bloglines
  • MyYahoo
  • MyMSN
  • newsgator
  • or via email
  • Coolest Reviews The latest addition to the coolest network, independant hands on reviews of all the latest gadgets and technology.
  • Game Addicts Reports on all the latest news in the gaming industry along with reviews on the latest addictive games
  • Say No To Crack A cool and funny humor site for all ages
  • Self Made Minds A blog about business and making money on the web
  • SoftSift News and reviews on the latest software releases