I will be in San Francisco this Monday afternoon, and am looking to meet up with some local hackers interested in having a look into the future of light. Arkalumen is a bootstrapped startup founded by an exceptional electrical engineer and hardware hacker (no, not me). I am in town for a cleantech conference and would love to meet up with some interesting folks. Anyone interested?

FYI, there isn't much info on our very basic website as we have been in stealth mode. For more information, here is a link to a brief describing our technology and it's applications: http://www.scribd.com/full/13501981?access_key=key-tdquqebl0...

There is also a video demo of our lamp in action available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4GnC_1LbsE&feature=playe... (Our light is featured at 5/7min into the video)

I'd be interested in a demo if you manage to round up a crew of people. If you're around for a while, or plan on coming back, you might get a better response doing a demo down at Tech Shop. http://www.techshop.ws There are more hardware hackers down in the valley than there are in The City.

This is a very short trip I'm afraid, and short notice too. I will be in San Francisco on Monday afternoon Sunnyvale all day Wednesday. If I get enough response I can arrange a meetup in either location.

Looks interesting. There is still a lot of space in this field for some people to disrupt the market.

Do you know if they fixed the noticeable flickering that makes the LED Christmas lights I have unusable? If they did I think I am on board.

I am not sure I know enough about your LED Christmas lights to be helpful, but we are working with newer (and orders of magnitude brighter) lighting-class LEDs which are not really the same thing. Our startup's core technology resides in low-cost embedded intelligence, and multi-channel control of high-power LEDs.

Interesting... The LED's that I have flicker more noticeably than a cheap florescent fixture.