LED Games - Reviews and Ideas

Electronic Game and Learning Products for the Homo LED-ens

This LED games review looks at some LED lighted electronic games,  product design ideas and some associated learning concepts.

As you shall see these games haven't yet reached their true potential. But there are already signs of great things to come. Especially in the modular field and with the emergence of organic LEDs, also in the manifold realm.

LEDs are both a light source and a chip. So they have the makings of an electronic game consol as well as the display screen. ... Ok,  can you start imagining the many ways more mature LED games are gonna blow the mind?

And the Homo LEDens is ... What?

Ok, that settles it.

Homo LEDenS is the phrase we brave to coin. And by that we mean that the oft-repeated term Homo-Ludens (the playing human) covers merely the scores of enlightened man/gal whose brain is built to play (mostly).

This is indeed in sharp contrast with our LEDlightened Homo-sapiens built ONLY to play AND only with LED (but of course.)

“The LEDLightened 'Homo LEDens' plays only with LED stuff...?

Is this the retro-inventive game generation...? Continue reading below...

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TileToys

I would count among the most promising and probably eductional LED toys the TileToys games.

Looks like some unassuming dominoe pieces. Look closer. Much like a chameleon it can change its spots. But we have very few records of chameleons retaining their cunning ability to adapt AFTER being dissected.

Take apart these blocks and have even more fun then dismembering reptiles can ever warm your heart. Like the famous Randominoes in the novel Nymphomation by author Jeff Noon TileToy is a new age dominoe, indeed. The circuit here though is somewhat smarter then a randomizer subroutine that the randominoes have.

Check out how it looks. Even better, if you are a die-hard do-it-yourselfer talk to them directly. Not only they don't mind you pestering them with silly questions, they actually want you to. Silly pitch? I think not. More like clever product building - the likes of which one might like very much.

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When Decoration Becomes Play

Speaking of modularity, there is even a kind of LED furniture that would round up nicely this all-modular approach to ways for playing around with LED. Yes, LED furniture, which is introducing a yet new dimension of fun into ones silly and warped world of LED Lighted stuff.

And if you 'dare', you too want to play around with a modular and reconfigurable LED Lamp...

Because it is precisely modularity which is the creative concept behind an ordinarily dull room furniture: the otherwise plain desk lamp. Rejuvenated with modular design and LED light it appears that for some 'magic reason' folks seem to like the new level of freedom it gives in interior decoration and architecture. Some even go as far as call it architainment.

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Now what this just reminds me of ...

More modular, more game. -- More int he future?

Frankly, this whole modular business reminds me of this lighted creative game. Not only it reminds me (ordinarily it's a struggle to focus on most anything anyway) of the Build-It blocks from Maya Engeli's eye-opening Bits and Spaces. More than that, it tells us that one important future of LED games lie in expanding the concept of modularity Playful learning networks even? Hmmm...Stay tuned for Maya adopting LED to her famous blocks.

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