Christmas Tree Project

[hantamouse]

Every year about this time I start to think about holiday decorations. Where is the tree going to go, which subset of the hundreds of ornaments will make it look a different enough flavor of traditional, the lights.... Those old lights are boringNo matter how many features and settings the lights had, they were still decided by someone else. I

Comments

[laurie_robey]

If you can work out a way to make this practical and not catch fire, could you patent it?

[ceruleanst]

I would dare say so, and it would be worth it too. LED technology is growing by leaps and bounds; the 256-color version could possibly be manufactured with the appropriate resources and the right lights. Add some simple software, and you could feed it a picture of a sunset and see those colors show up on the tree. Or sample pixels from the computer screen live, and have things like... music player visualizations on your Christmas tree! I see millions of people reaching for their credit cards.

[hantamouse]

Eeek! $7000 to $10,000 for a basic simple patent.

[laurie_robey]

Yes, but, if you can get it to work and make it practical, this is the kind of thing that Christmas tree light comanies would make a killing with.

(BTW, LJ just sent me the e-mail that you had responded to my comment. It's December 7.)