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Simply a Bright Idea
We have all done it. You might be doing it right now. If you are reading this site, then you are probably predisposed to doing it all the time. Over thinking a design. That’s what designer Sungho Lee did when he first approached his LED light design. He started by filling a box with all the requisite parts needed to generate a LED light. After stepping back, he stripped his design of everything that wasn’t necessary. Basically it’s a paperclip, slightly modified to to hug a watch battery and topped with the LED light. Brilliant!
Designer: Sungho Lee
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Lamah says
What do I do with this tiny coupling? I mean, it’s cool, but it won’t be bright enough to light my way. And there’s no paperclip end to let me attach it to things as a hands-free light source.
colin says
umm…how is this actually working? white LEDs need over 3V to turn on…and a resistor? something is fishy here…
Jim says
Look at the battery and you will see a 3V stamped on it. It’s a perfect match so no resistor is needed.
colin says
my bad. forgot about the throwies, still dont get how they don’t pull too much current, but if it works it works.
dewmi says
it used battery resistance…
ghettoballz says
have you ever even put a light together? nicads are 3 volts and you don’t need a resistor unless you have like a freakin 9 volt!
Aphonic says
This isn’t a new concept at all. We did things similar to this to do some low-tech graffiti.
We’d tape a battery, LED, and a rare earth magnet all together and throw them up onto signs / bridges / buildings, anything the magnet would stick to.
I mean the paperclip is a nice idea, but it is kind of useless.
Here is a link to how to make what I was talking about:
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwies/
jordan says
are you KIDDING??
I think they are totally!! different from concept.
Using LED is only the same thing.
sorry.
jonF says
you seriously think that it is similar to this work??? they just made a “lighting object” only to throw. And the solution was too simple to be said “it was designed”. Just “TAPING” LED, battery, magnet to throw..Throw it.
is there any concept by itself?? what is different from lighting magnet on the door of refrigerator?? is it better form??..what is it?
Victor M. Aleman says
its king of good but already done and in a functional way by Estudio EOSMEXICO… good friends of mine, with a cloth hanger, a led and the battery… you can put it anywhere.. but nice to include de clip.
http://www.eosmexico.com
Jason says
Is this considered a design?
Henrique Staino says
I still don’t get what this is for…
david says
cool idea …
Jason says
although it may be a cool idea, have you have forgotten that these batteries use mercury which will be absorbed through the skin. So not soo cool
sk says
Very economic.
One battery for each useless LED.
Can’t be more than a joke.
darby says
sungho is he, not she..
the girl in the picture is not sungho
Carl says
ok a paperclip juxtposed with a led powered via a battery… to what end? what does this do, achieve or solve?
stev says
anyway. cool~!!
lia says
i’d love to buy these cute led clips!!!
Jordan says
this is obsurd, they’ve taken two brilliant designs (the paperclip and LED), stuck them together, and now can say this is her design?! in that case i’m taping a iphone to a dyson and calling it mine!
slappsys have been around for years, if this was a proper project they would have done their research and stopped 5 minutes in to think of a new idea!
lia says
I think you couldn’t understand the concept.
I agree that paperclip is brilliant design.
Jordan says
i understood the concept completely, but no matter how you phase it, in this case ‘i’ve stripped back the LED light to its core elements’, they have still repackaged an idea that has been around for years, there is nothing new, no twist, nothing.
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=6
type LED throwies into youtube and see countless video’s.
JonF says
you really think that the contents of that video is similar to this work??? they just made a “lighting object” only to throw. And the solution was too simple to be said “it was designed”. Just “TAPING” LED, battery, magnet to throw it..Throw it.
Steve says
Brilliant Concept! It is a nice gesture. It has the potential of Super Normal as defined by Naoto, Jasper, and (quiet as kept) Sam Hecth.
Terrible list of comments. I’m appalled at the lack of support and derogatory comments posted on this site and other design blogs of late.
Come on people!
Chung Dha says
But what is the use for this?
Electronic Gadgets says
For reading at night, in your car, in a tent, between the car and the front door….etc.
Rendl M. says
could I get his mail address??
or website
sungho says
linked.Thank you.
Confucius says
So when you turn it off you have 2 tiny objects that will get lost in a second. It has no use, whereas a keychain light is an all-in one (and still tiny) lighting device. That has an on/off button and it clips to your keys!
This is an instructable, for primary school kids. Not design.
stev says
if you turn off it, just insert battery to the clip opposite direction, +,-. And that can be really intuitive switch by itself.
tidor says
useless but cute..
girator says
re-sis-tor
it’s OK the voltage is right, but too much current get trough the LED and kill it early.
J says
It really blows my mind how many people call this brilliant design. As said above, you turn it off and you have two tiny objects instead of one. This is a case where someone has taken something that is functional and simple ($5 LED light at REI) and over designed it into something that is no longer functional and a hassle to use. Once again, the design community fails in supporting bad design.
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