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via ubergizmo.com

So you think you’ve got a pretty spiffy clock at home? Well, the 768 LED Clock will certainly, er, outclock you? The main reason for the number 768 is due to the exact amount of LED bulbs that make up the entire clock. Perfect for clock watchers at the office as they count down the minutes remaining before they get to leave their cubicle to have a life outside of the office’s fourwalls. The 768 LED Clock will retail for $89, making this a rather frivolous and expensive purchase - make sure you have the missus’ permission before bringing this home lest you get an earful on what $89 can buy these days.

by Darren Murph via engadget.com

You know that impossible-to-miss NASDAQ sign on Broadway at 43rd Street in New York City? Yeah, the one that’s 11,000-square feet in size. The Walgreen Company has set out to make that look like child’s play, as it aims to erect a 250,000-pound sign at a three-level emporium in Times Square. Said display will reportedly be used to “raise [the drugstore's] visibility in New York,” while doubling as a “focal point for it nationally.” This beast will be covered in 12 million LEDs — 17,000 square feet of them, to be exact — and you can only imagine the hardware that will be required behind the scenes to keep this thing up and running.

by Terrence O’Brien via switched.com

Shiny Shiny may have picked up on this wind-up LED lamp specifically for festival season, but here in the States we aren’t lucky enough to have such a thing. Still, this lamp could come in pretty handy while camping or during a black out. The lamp will last 48 hours when fully wound on ‘night light’ or ’safety light’ mode, or four hours in ‘ambient’ mode. Getting there shouldn’t take too long either, as a full minute of winding will give you 30 minutes of light. For the truly lazy a 12v car adapter is available. This wind up lantern is available for £19.95 or about $39.