Do you want your Tron costume to glow like this one, created by designer Syuzi? Then you need to learn about electroluminescent wire. There’s a great tutorial over on Adafruit that teaches you ...

[Akiba] over at Freaklabs has been working with electroluminescent (EL) wire. An entire dance company worth! We know [Akiba] from his post tsunami radiation monitoring work with the Tokyo Hackerspace.

Our favorite Russian mad scientists, [Kreosan], have shocked us yet again with another terribly ill-advised, super bad idea. Home made EL wire that runs off of mains voltage. From the picture it looks ...

Neon signs are cool, but they can be fragile and expensive if you need a custom design. If you’d rather make your own on the cheap, you can use EL wire, some simple plastic tubing, and a heat gun. If ...

In just a few short weeks the Bay Area will witness a mass migration to the high desert in Nevada for Burning Man 2011. Fur pants, lit up costumes and technological ingenuity are to be had on the ...

One of the great advantages of LEDs is their long lifetime — as much as 50,000 hours — but not all lighting applications require as much, and for shorter-lifetime applications there are other sources ...

MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Darkside Scientific, creators of LumiLor Light Emitting Coating, is working with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus to create electroluminescent exterior markings for ...