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- Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower
- A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"
- A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screen
- iRex announced new ebooks with touch screen functionality last week and now Sony just announced the Sony Reader PRS-700 with touch screen functionality. I still have and enjoy using my PRS-505 and this newest model looks to have about the same form factor. Even more impressive to me than the...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Light-emitting Diode, E-book, Touch Screen Functionality, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...
- Tags: Engineering, tree-hugger, light-emitting diode, LED DISPLAY, DELL Makes, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays
- Within the next 12 months, Dell plans to adopt displays that use light emitting diodes as a standard feature across its entire notebook product line. The first milestone in this transition will come on Dec. 15 of this year, when the company estimates that about two-thirds...
- Tags: Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Green tech that shimmers. Raleigh uses LEDs, aluminum flaps for convention center's new Cree Shimmer Wall
- What do you do with an exterior wall a city block long that fronts your building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems? That's the challenge that was posed to Thomas Sayre, who specializes in designing what people typically call public art installations. Sayre's design firm was one of three companies...
- Tags: Cree, Raleigh, Green Technology, Light-emitting Diode, Wall, Sayre, Construction, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- When it comes to LEDs, people are beginning to see the light
- Whether it was the high-profile use of light-emitting diodes at the Beijing Olympics or simply the more eco-conscious atmosphere around the globe, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council reports that LED makers in Taiwan realized a 16.2 percent increase in sales for their products during the first half of 2008....
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Samsung LN-46A950
- We've mentioned before that when it comes to black-level performance, the most-important factor in home theater image quality, you get what you pay for. Samsung's 46-inch LN46A950 is just more proof. This flat-panel LCD represents the company's second generation to offer a backlight based on cutting-edge LED (light-emitting diode) technology,...
- Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Overall IT, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., light-emitting diode
- Product reviews 2008-09-10
- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Canada adds another city to LED City listIt is laudible, but what's the cost?I tend not to believe their web page (no information, you have to call). Just doing some searching on the web, LED lights appear to be more more than 20X more expensive than traditional. With...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, LED City
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Cree LED lighting components get littler
- LED lighting company Cree, active in the LED City movement, has shrunk the size of its LED chips with two new components: the XLamp XE-E and XP-C LED series. Both products are roughly 80 percent smaller than Cree's predecessor products, measuring 3.45 millimeters square by 2 millimeters...
- Tags: Cree, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED citieswait one minute!they are spending 2.2 million to save 360,000 a year. Just some quick math here... 2.2 / 360,000 ~ 6 years! How long do the lights last?Very longLEDs last [i]much[/i] longer than traditional fluorescence or incandescent...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, Count Anchorage, LED City, Northern Lights
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities
- The city of Anchorage in Alaska, notoriously gloomy in the winter months, will spend approximately $2.2 million to retrofit 16,000 municipal roadway lights (about one-quarter of all streetlights) with LED fixtures. The deal is one of the latest projects to emerge from the LED City program,...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Smart backup battery pack for iPhone 3G
- One of the biggest drawbacks of the 3G radio and GPS receiver in the new iPhone is the tax that it takes on the battery. Most people using the new iPhone have noted that it can be difficult making it through a full day on a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple iPhone 3G, Backup, Battery, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Engineering, jason D. O'Grady, Light-emitting Diode, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- Towards low-cost LED lightingA terrific ideaThis is a great advance and I hope the technology proves practical. Now if Americans will just get their heads on straight and build about 50 nukes and shut down all oil and gas-fired power plants, The USA will no longer be held hostage...
- Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode, LED lighting
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat
- LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...
- Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Lyrebird (exe)
- Lyrebird is a common LED information publishing software, it can help you easily edit and distribute medias to all types of synchronous and asynchronous LED controllers. It will manage various of devices with the same interface, which will help user edit and playback the media information easily. This system also...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Shanghai Polar Vision, Lyrebird, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-05-28
- Photos: Furnishings with a future
- The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, a showcase for modern design, attracted its fair share of tech-oriented, futuristic, and energy-saving devices.The International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which took place last week in New York, is a showcase for modern design. More than 600 exhibitors displayed contemporary furniture, flooring, lighting, and wall coverings....
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Showcase, Lamp, Photograph, Seat, LED Light, That', Engineering, Construction, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-27
- LED Tester (Windows) (zip)
- LED Tester Windows is a free LED screen test software. It could help you test and debug the LED screen conveniently. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Microsoft Windows, Shanghai Polar Vision, Engineering
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
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