Why settle for a boring old on/off light bar? This unit uses capacitive touch sensing technology and ties human touch to light output, not just on or off, but selective on/off as well as color changing. All options are determined by human fingers, no need for any fancy DMX or other controls.

As shown in the picture there are Osram Dragons (might be too bright and overkill and the project might have to use TopLeds instead...don\'t know yet.) on a circuit board mounted in a metal light bar. Each of the two metal strips that enclose the unit have a different function. The power on/off metal strip functions as follows:

1. A single tap will turn the unit on, and the unit could have a \"remember last light scheme\" feature so that if you set up a really cool light display with multiple colors, you wouldn\'t have to reset it up every time you power on or off...
2. If you tap but don\'t release and instead do a tap and slide, instead of the whole light bar coming on, only the portion of the light bar where you are sliding your finger turns on, so picture running your finger up and down the light bar, seeing the LED\'s turn on and as you slide backwards they go off...pretty cool precise lighting control.
3. Double tapping the on/off metal strip puts the unit into lockdown so any accidental bump won\'t mess up the scene you create. To unlock, simply double tap again.
4. Triple tap will turn the light bar off.

For the metal strip that controls the color functions this is how that strip would work.

1. Tapping it a single time would toggle presets. So if the light bar starts out white, a single tap turns it blue, tapping it again turns to green and so on. There could be maybe a dozen or so presets.
2. For those who prefer more precise control, don\'t tap, just tap and hold and the unit will cycle through many more color combinations.
3. Once you have the color you like in step #2 above, double tap the color metal strip and it will lock in that color and change the entire light strip to that color.
4. However, to add a creative aspect to it, if instead of double tapping you do a Triple tap and hold, meaning you double tap and on the third tap do not remove your finger you now are in color slide mode. As you slide your finger along the light rail, only those LED\'s over which your finger has passed will change to your color. This allows for very personalized light effects. You could have many different colors along the light bar to set moods in various parts of a room.

Like I mentioned, you could have the unit remember the last light scheme. When you want to return the unit to the factory default of all white, when the unit is first turned on (remember when it is off, a single tap on the on/off metal strip will turn it on)simply tap both strips simultaneously 3 times and the unit will return to all white, at which time you can begin the human/light interaction all over again.