Author: Kat Hannaford

These Klipsch LightSpeakers may be ugly as sin, but the idea of having speakers and LED lights in the same light bulb unit should appeal to haters of wires and unnecessary gadgetry.

The LED light bulb fits 5 and 6-inch light fixtures and is completely dimmable, meaning you can replace the usual bulbs you use with a set of these Klipsch ones, which will last for 40,000 hours apparently. Pipe music wirelessly through to the lights, which contain a 2.5-inch wide dispersion driver and uses up 20 watts. The LightSpeaker kit comes with a transmitter, which connects to a PC, CD player or iPod and sends the audio to up to eight of the light bulbs with two separate zones.

The two LightSpeakers, transmitter, remote and cables cost $599, with individual LightSpeakers on sale for $249 at the end of the month. [Klipsch via BusinessWire]

Well now, this certainly puts my fiance’s restaurant proposal to shame. Boy Derick proposed to girl Emily using a spotlight, DSLR and three nights, creating a spectacular light writing proposal.

Along with several friends, two Canon 7D cameras were used by Derick to create the proposal—one on the ground, one from a hotel room looking out across the scene—with the ground camera using a Nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens. Dragon Stop Motion was used to superimpose the light writing image over the live view from the ground camera, with the video shown a few days later to the happy Emily. [Derick and Emily proposal via Neatorama]

Light Blue Optics has been showing off their cool projection wares since 2004, so it’s great to hear they’re close to turning that “holographic laser projection technology” into a viable product, albeit as an OEM.

The Light Touch pico projector throws a laser WVGA image out to the size of 10-inches, turning any available surface into a touchscreen. The angle is a pretty decent wide throw, which means the projector can be quite close to the surface.

Running on Adobe Flash Lite 3.1, the Light Touch projector has 2GB of flash memory and a microSD card slot (with support up to 32GB) for storing media on, and also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for hooking up with a laptop or device. It supposedly has a 2 hour battery life, which unfortunately seems to be the norm with these little projectors, though kudos to Light Blue Optics for throwing in a bunch of other features that could make this actually useful, for consumers as well as businesses (as the pic below shows). [Light Blue Optics via BusinessWire]

Laptop speaker meets laptop fan, in the shape of Logitech’s Speaker Lapdesk. The N700 can support up to 16-inch models and is powered solely by USB.

The 2-inch stereo speakers are actually positioned on the outer edges of the lapdesk so you can have a non-tinny musical experience, with the fans on the top half for cooling down your laptop (and your knees). You can actually turn the fan on and off, just in case you’re working from the Antarctic one week and actually need the heat to survive.

On sale in February for $80. [Logitech via Macworld]