Interactive LED Coffee Tables

by Scott Beale on October 12, 2007 · 9 comments

Our friends over at Because We Can and Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have joined forces to create two types of amazing Interactive LED Coffee Tables, “The Ripple” and “The Wave”, both of which are available for purchase through the Because We Can store. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is also selling LED kits for people want to make their own LED coffee table.

Using a network of 32 active and passive near-infrared optical sensors, it detects motion above the table and changes in ambient light. Made of fully analog circuits, the light patterns sweep outwards from your motion with perfect fades, glowing stronger the closer the movement is, rippling across a pool of 480 super-bright white LEDs. It works in full sunlight or total darkness.

Here’s a photo gallery of LED coffee tables and a demo video showing how you can interact with the tables.

Interactive LED Coffee Table

Interactive LED Coffee Table

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October 25, 2007 at 4:48 pm

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1 Rubin Starset October 12, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Sort of like 2Ï€r, but not hot.

http://2-pi-r.net

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2 groovehouse October 13, 2007 at 6:44 pm

These are really cool and look like a lot of fun! Thanks for the links and photos.

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3 Gwen Harper October 14, 2007 at 6:13 pm

How can I get a table like that?

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4 Tristem October 20, 2007 at 11:44 am

nice! but also reminds me of http://www.sensacell.com/

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