Sunday, February 28, 2010

A new muse... Lit Jewelry

I work with LEDs... I love them, the little cute sources of light...

So today, I was browsing the web for the latest bright and fast LEDs in the market, for use in m experiments, and my dear friend chided me... " Looking at(and longing for) diamond jewellery again?? "

That is when the idea struck me... Why not LED jewellery???

They consume so little power that they can go all night on the tiniest of batteries. Imagine necklaces, pendants and earrings comprised of strings of LED backlit crystals... the jewels would gleam right, even in unflattering room lighting... No more feeling sorry that your jewels don't glimmer as well after you wear them as they do the the trick lighting of the jewelry stores...

The batteries can be recharged by placing the jewels back into the case, and plugging the case to mains. And the circuit is closed when the necklace is clasped on, and the glimmer of your jewels dazzles everyone!!!

So imagines an electrical engineer who happens to be a girl... :)

9 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice idea Sruts !

So this would be a common conversation:

1st Lady: "Hey dear, where is your beautiful necklace?? not wearing it to the wedding today ??"

LED-necklace-owner Lady: (with a frown).. alas... there was a power failure all night.. couldn't charge it !!

Sruthi Muralidharan said...

lol @amol...

we are talking of people who can afford these hi-end necklaces. I am hoping they can afford inverters/generators too...

Unknown said...

And you don't really have power cuts in America!

Noemaun Ahmed said...

worst. see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk

mostly they all look crappy. a good jewel is that which suits the surroundings (mostly reflect). so if it has to be an LED stuff, it has to sense the light in the surrounding and at most emit not more than 1 mW. for that a solar cell or a mechanical way to charge is more than enough.

Imagine said...

Dear Sruti, all ready such things are available in the market.... especially in Delhi, you find alot.... [:)]

ambi said...

That is a BRIGHT idea

ambi said...

That is a BRIGHT idea

Reincarnated! said...

Thats a good one... i think u gotta ask someone in India about the LED saree which i heard is actually being sold in d market :) this one could be a good accessory fr dat :P

Unknown said...

Please make sure to have the first piece of jewelery for me since i really do not like diamonds. I want to dazzle in LED.