Nov 2 2007LED Rims: No Car Is Complete Without Them
Pimpstar has had their static image LED rims out for over a year now, and now LED Wheels is stepping it up a notch with a line of full motion LED rims, because, well, because.
Enter LED Wheels, a company that envisions a world with flashing graphics, customized designs and even adverts for Macy's Labor Day Sale rotating on your rims. The screen in the rim's center looks to be about seven to eight inches wide and remains upright while the wheel rotates around it.
Seeing how the Pimpstars were between $12,000-$20,000 a set, these things are going to cost a fortune. Wait a minute. Did that quote up there mention a Macy's Labor Day Sale? Where in the shit did that come from? If LED Wheels is imagining a world with Macy's advertisements on rims, I'm imagining myself dropping a toaster into the tub the next time I take a bath.
A very, very disappointing video of the suckers after the jump (Note: Don't demo your wheels with a crappy-ass, locally made Chrysler commercial on them).
LED Wheels - Coming Soon to a Car Near You, with Ads [techeblog]
Reader Comments
1. flareback - November 2, 2007 3:13 PM
our only hope is that these things get banned before they even come to the market.
2. mint - November 2, 2007 3:28 PM
Wow those things are lame, you can drop a fortune to watch basic cable from the curb, alright!
Ohh, and these things better be freakin bullet proof because you know some punk kids will try to kick them in the first week
3. Seoulmunch - November 2, 2007 4:09 PM
Wow, Mint, you read my mind. Now, i'm not punk mind you, but I would have to fight really hard not to kick those in if I saw them.
4. Manuel Gonzales - November 2, 2007 4:25 PM
I am getting. they will complement the 8 TV's I already have mounted from the ceiling and dash of my ride.
5. Sam - November 2, 2007 4:38 PM
if this is a show car then yes DO IT!! but for a everyday car these things I would imagine they will break! even thoe the page says they can hold some hits with damage to the LCD.. you could buy them here. Price is insane!
6. coolman - November 2, 2007 4:38 PM
Who's going to see that! Come on! Watch this...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cL9PU08Xuwo
7. Superevil - November 2, 2007 4:48 PM
The human race is slowly starting to circle the drain
8. gia - November 2, 2007 5:57 PM
coool..
9. RageMarine - November 2, 2007 11:18 PM
hmm, pot-hole=busted LEDS=hahahahahhahahahaha u had it coming u rich ignorant a$$h0le
10. Chris - November 2, 2007 11:23 PM
Ghetto fabulous.
11. jonbovi - November 3, 2007 12:11 PM
how is any air supposed to get to the brakes? surely the screen will just put more heat on them.
12. Fred - November 3, 2007 12:49 PM
When i see i something like that i know its my duty to contribute to that persons education.
13. guate6 - November 3, 2007 6:26 PM
They're illegal anyway. Even the little blinky LED things you put on the tire valve stem will get you a ticket because they're "distracting to other drivers." So this product is restricted to show cars, not for every day driving. However everyone knows that some ghetto people will be waiting to get their hands on them to show them off on their car. A car that has about $20k plus in modifications, while they're still living in their shitty-ass trailer or manufactured home (see: dumpster).
14. ivanm - November 4, 2007 7:55 AM
I am getting. they will complement the 8 TV's I already have mounted from the ceiling and dash of my ride.
15. poop - November 4, 2007 9:29 AM
what i'm really waiting for is to be able to play "nba hoops" video games on the rims of the car next to me, from the drivers seat, using a steering wheel keyboard and an embedded trackball, while sucking on a bottle of "henny".
the real challenge would be to either get high scores in city traffic, or in the parking garage, whilst seeking a big enough spot to park the escalade, while i desperately try to achieve pimp status so as not to elude to my ghetto upbringing. i don't want to be too obvious about this shit... ..is my snake skinned suit getting wrinkled from the heated seats? how's my corn-rows lookin'? is i be rockin' the pimp sauce? hell yeah~!
we be ballin'.
16. Rebecca - November 4, 2007 6:07 PM
this is crazy ridiculous....
17. Ricky - November 5, 2007 2:21 PM
,,, where'd they come up with the name... led wheels, when it's using LCD? LED=Light Emitting Diode, LCD Liquid Crystal Display
If they're going to make a stupid product for stupid people the least they could do is name it correctly...
18. Kishore Jethanandani - November 8, 2007 12:49 PM
Digital signage is common these days. In New York, these "distracting" images are already available on taxi tops. Digital billboards were for a while considered "distracting" by the Federal Highway Commission but it relented later on. If digital billboards, those hunks, are not any longer considered distracting why would the tiny billboards on car wheels be considered distracting.
19. alvaress - November 14, 2007 8:53 AM
look horney girlz and horney boy u should kill urself and plz boyz and men do not try to add me on my msn because its for all sexy girlz its not for ugly girl bye loosers (alvaress@crawler.com)
20. alan - February 22, 2008 8:00 AM
dat is sweet
21. Jeremy - January 20, 2009 12:45 PM
Ok, for those of you that are saying that they are LCD.
They are actually LED.
I know them picture thingies are confusing and all, but i assure you they are LED.
They just use the rotation of the wheel combined with precise timing on the LEDs to create them picha-madoogies.
At least watch the video and use your brain before you start bashing something.
Good day.