(Innovation) Signal your intentions with the Biking Glowes.

Bicycles don’t usually come with lights on them, and the add-on kits are usually either reflectors or lights that just alert drivers that someone is cycling in front of them.  During the day, you can use the hand signals you learned in driver’s ed classes to indicate when you will be making a turn, but hand signals can’t be seen at night and bikes don’t usually have blinkers.  With this kit and your own gloves, you can make a pair of Biking Glowes (not a typo) that give hand signals a new meaning.  The DIY kit comes with LED beads, conductive thread, coin cell batteries and holders, and instructions.  Once assembled, you’ll just make a fist to complete the circuit and hold out the proper hand to signal your intent to turn.  The DIY Kit Biking Glowes is available from the onesip shop on Etsy for $33.00.  Get a couple of kits for each biker you know, so they can have some lightweight gloves for warm weather and some warmer gloves for winter.

(Innovation) Finally Energy Efficient Lightbulbs – a Bright Idea!

When you check the store shelves you can tell that your plain old everyday incandescent lightbulbs are getting pushed aside by quite a few more energy efficient options. Yup, your “normal” bulbs have taken on odd shapes, and worse, LED’s and CFL’s don’t give your home that welcoming warm glow of days gone by. Yes, there’s an energy savings, but at what price?

I’d like to introduce you to Finally, a company devoted to developing new lighting technology for your home, specifically a lightbulb that would deliver the same warm omnidirectional glow of your traditional incandescent lightbulbs, without the same energy waste, with a long lifespan, and at an affordable price.

Finally Lightbulbs utilize induction, a lighting system that was developed at around the same time incandescent technology was born. Induction systems are still used today, but are most often found in commercial applications, like warehouses, and garages because of the space requirements, induction was quite impractical for home use.

So, the folks over at Finally compressed the induction system, and utilizing copper wires rather than “old fashioned” filaments, they managed to get a bulb with the best attributes of the induction process and created something they call Acandescence™,  a brand new lighting technology that produces the same warm light as an incandescent, but with energy efficiency, and affordability.

The Finally 60 Watt Replacement Bulb is available now for pre-order, at right around 10 bucks, with the 75 and 100 watt Finally bulbs available soon. Get yours from shopfinallybulbs.com Expect shipping late summer 2014.

(Gadget) Astronaut USB Light

If you believe, they put a man on the moon. You won’t have to wrestle with any light switches near your computer with this Astronaut USB Light. The USB cord is cleverly concealed as the astronauts lifeline to the mothership…or motherboard if you will. It’s flexible, poseable, scientific and useful. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Ground control to Major Tom. Zero hour, 9 a.m. And I think it’s going to be a long long time.