Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED solid-state lighting, yesterday (3rd) announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately held LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. ("LLF"). Cree's agreement to acquire LLF was announced February 8, 2008.  

 Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, light up the ceiling vaulting inside the Old North Church, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 in Boston. The Old North Church has gone high-tech, installing LEDs to illuminate ceiling vaulting inside the church where two lanterns were hung the night of April 18, 1775.

Dialight Corporation has received a major order for its newly developed, high-intensity LED lights for military shelters, which have been approved for use by the U.S. Marine Corps. Complying with MIL-STD-461E, RE102 and CE102 for EMI/RFI shielding, they can also be used for vehicle interior and shipboard lighting, as well as for general illumination requiring high light output.

Visitors at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Arkansas, will have a bright canvas to paint on: a 14 foot-long interactive LED wall installed by Philips Electronics as a gift to the new hospital.Named the "Imagination Light Canvas," the display has 1,420 touch-sensitive pixel elements, letting visitors finger-paint with light. Images persist for a few minutes, and six people can play simultaneously.    

Martin Schubert, a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., has won the $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Prize for his work on light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Schubert developed a new, polarized type of LED that could allow their widespread use as light sources for liquid-crystal displays in televisions, computers, cell phones and other devices.

How long do you expect your flashlight to last without needing a recharge? A few hours, perhaps? How about 80 years, how does that sound? Because that's just how long newly developed micro LEDs can last on just a single charge.

423 series from Aerospace & Defence Products is a 9.5mm panel socket mounting LED indicator. The precision black moulded housing greatly emphasises the mechanical stability and supports the high intensity LED element in a range of colours and voltages. 423 series indicator has been fitted with a coloured diffused dome fresnel lens assembly to provide good wide angle viewing. Smoked and water clear lens options are also available.

The Old North Church, a beacon for Paul Revere's famous warning of the movement of British forces, and a symbol of the American Revolution, has gone high-tech with the installation of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. The energy-efficient lights illuminate ceiling vaults inside the church, whose steeple was used to display two lanterns as a signal about British troop movements on April 18, 1775 — the night described in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, which included the line: "One if by land, and two if by sea."

LIGHT emitting diode (LED) has been introduced to Swaziland by the WorldWide Energy Savers (WES) Pty Ltd. WES is a company based in South Africa known as WESLITE development. LED is a semi conductor device that emits incoherent narrow-spectrum light when electrically biased in the forward direction of the p-n junction.This was said by WES Director Mario Travaglini at a presentation held yesterday at Timbali lodge.

Labsphere Inc.,  a world leader in the design and manufacturer of light measurement solutions, has released new packages for LED and light source characterization to satisfy a wide range of light test needs.

Railways will install LED boards on trains, at railway stations and parking lots for disseminating information to passengers. Announcing these measures in the Railway budget on Tuesday, Lalu Prasad said his Ministry has decided to install online coach indication display boards on over night mail and express trains by March 2009.

Spotlight on Digital PowerCatalyst Semiconductor has received a patent for a stepdown switching regulator circuit architecture applicable for driving high-brightness LEDs. The patent, titled "LED current bias control using step-down regulator" (patent number 7,323,828), was developed to simplify the design of high-brightness LED lighting in emerging household, commercial and automotive lighting applications.

Cree has announced that Tiajin Economic Development Area (TEDA) has joined its LED City program. TEDA and Tianjin Polytechnic University are collaborating with Cree to introduce LED lighting initiative in mainland China. Cree has previously taken the LED City program to Raleigh, North Carolina USA, Toronto, Canada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Austin, Texas. The LED City program is an international initiative to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lighting.

Abacus has teamed up with LED lighting specialist Osram to create a distribution business division to address the solid state lighting market.Called AbacusLED, the venture will market the Osram range of discrete LEDs and LED lighting systems together with electronic driver and thermal management technologies.It will carry other distribution lines including Everlight, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, ST Microelectronics, Power Integrations, 3M and Aavid Thermalloy.

A real godsend for those of us in need of constant visual stimulus, the Oakland-based group Because We Can has devised a way to interact with your coffee table. The "Design-Build studio" teamed up with the tech whizzes from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to create an LED Coffee Table dubbed The Wave. They fitted the table with 480 bright LED lights, along with 32 near infrared optical sensors. The result is a surface that reacts to any motion by following it with a cascade of glowing light.

Mount these battery-operated lights along a stairwell, in a closet, outside your side door…wherever you need some light but don't need the hassle of electrical work.  Loud or sharp sound will turn the four bright LED lights on; they'll turn off automatically 10 seconds after last sound heard. Manual on/off option. Pivoting bracket directs the light where you need it. Weather-resistant for outdoor use.

Superclub Noxx has used 300m2 of Chroma-Q Color Web 125 to provide a stunning LED video ceiling in its main dance room.Noxx's founders wanted to create some unique, cutting-edge visual effects for the 2000-capacity venue and turned to Luc Peumans of digital lighting specialists Painting with Light.The biggest challenge involved specifying an LED video surface to cover the entire ceiling of the large, asymmetrical main dance room.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp, a unit of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp, of Tokyo, Japan has agreed to acquire the near-ultraviolet LED business of Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd (including the facilities and the technology to produce the chips) at the end of March for ¥1.5bn (about $13.9m), reports Nikkei Net. The Mitsubishi Cable near-UV LED manufacturing operations in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture will be moved to Mitsubishi Chemical’s facilities in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Recently named "PoE-Powered Device of the Month" by industry experts, Inova Solutions' OnAlertTM appliance supports mass notifications that save lives and reduce risks during natural disasters and other emergency situations.

When revelers watched the Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop in New York City on December 31, few would have realized that light-emitting diodes, the light bulbs festooned to the ball, would one day bring light to their homes and offices. LEDs have become popular recently for more than just electronics. They're used in traffic signals and automotive lighting, and now some enterprising startups have turned their gaze indoors.

Whever attention needs to be gained, it’s normal practice to flash LEDs. In addition to attracting the eye, flashing LEDs also considerably drops battery consumption.

Martin will be taking a wide range of indoor and outdoor color changing luminaires and color control systems to what some consider the world's most important retail trade show.

LED stripCoolon  has designed and patented a technology that allows for a seamless and uninterrupted connection of LED strips into a single continuous strip. The manufacturing of continuous LED strips has presented various technical problems such as the size limitations of PCBs, processing and assembly equipment, etc., and transportation to the distribution or installation site.

Cree has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held LED Lighting Fixtures (LLF) in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $77 million, plus up to an additional $26.4 million over a three-year period.

A lamp that uses gravity to power light emitting diodes (LEDs) has been given a green award.The Gravia lamp designed by Virginia Tech student Clay Moulton earned second place in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition.Electricity to power the 10 high-output LEDs is generated by a weight that spins a rotor as it falls to earth.The weight is housed in an acrylic column, with the LEDs at its base shining through the acrylic to provide a diffuse glow.

Shuji Nakamura is the man who discovered the blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) used in the newest DVD players.Later research by Nakamura led to white LEDs, which may eventually replace much of the world''s lighting.His work earned him the 2006 Millennium Technology Award, the tech world equivalent of the Nobel Prize.In 1989, Nakamura was virtually alone in his work on LEDs when his supervisor at Nichia Chemical Industries in Japan suggested he quit because his research wasn''t going anywhere.