2009-04-07

LED Bubble Gun Blows Magical Bubbles at Night

This LED bubble gun is really cool! It blaster bubbles and light up, too. Three AA batteries are needed to power the bubble blaster as well as the LED lights, and two bottles of bubble fluids are included in the package. During the day, it’s a all normal picture. But at night, the $4.50 LED bubble gun fires magical molten blue sparks.
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2009-04-07

Pharox LED Bulb Launched by Lemnis Lighting

This April, the month of the 40th World Earth Day, Lemnis Lighting has released a new energy-efficient LED product, the Pharox LED bulb. The bulb developed using the most advanced lighting technology produces light equivalent to that of a 40Watt incandescent bulb, while with only 5W of energy. And the life-span of the bulb reaches up to 50,000 hours or approximately 35 years.
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2009-04-07

Cypress Developed Single Chip Device to Control High Power LEDs

Cypress semiconductor has recently developed PowerPSoC which has been claimed by the company to be the first single chip device to control and drive high power LEDs. PowerPSoC features four integrated, independently operated 32V/1A mosfets based on Cypress' PSoC platform, with up to four programmable hysteretic controllers providing controlled current output. Floating load buck, floating load buck-boost, and boost converter topologies provide design flexibility. The device also supports 16bit dimming.
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2009-04-02

Toshiba Releases New High-Performance LED Drivers

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has released on Wednesday two new highly-efficient white LED drivers, TB62730WLG and TB62750FTG, both of which designed to drive white LEDs for backlight use in LCDs. The two LED drivers were among several products Toshiba launched yesterday for expanding its Mobile Strategic Initiative, a product and customer support program aimed to facilitate ease of design for new mobile phones and other portable devices.
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2009-04-02

World’s Longest Burning Bulb Replaced with LED

The Centennial Bulb, the longest burning light bulb in history which has been burning for the last 108 years at fire station No.6 in Livermoore California, has yesterday been replaced with an energy efficient LED bulb.            
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2009-04-02

NOKIA 1661 to Come out with Amazing LED Flashlight

The NOKIA 1661 will come out on T-MOBILE USA later this year. The phone is economically priced, and is ridiculously simple, while the amazing built-in LED flashlight will be the biggest attraction to all. With a built-in speakerphone, FM radio and flashlight, consumers can stay well connected when away from home or the office. With the built-in LED flashlight, consumers won't be left in the dark again as the Nokia 1661 easily lights the way.
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2009-04-01

Sharp Releases New LED Street Lamps Featuring Wider Illumination Area

Sharp Corp recently released 10 models of LED street lamps which are designed with lenses for widening the illumination area, with one of the models equipped with solar battery.
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2009-04-01

LEDs Replacing Rocket Flares for U.S. Army to Be Developed by Energy Focus

Energy Focus, a fiber-optic and LED lighting provider, said Tuesday it would develop LEDs for the U.S. Army to replace rockets flares which are used to provide infrared light to soldiers wearing night vision goggles on the battlefield.
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2009-04-01

San Jose Could Turn to LEDs Instead of Shutting off Streetlights

Last year in San Jose, California, the local government had turned off streetlights in some district to meet the environmental goals, while this year, more LED lamps could be installed in the next few months to get the same result. To reach Mayor Chuck Reed's Green Vision aim of powering the city's 62,000 streetlights with renewable energy, the city’s Transportation and Environment Committee will come up with some steps on April 6.
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2009-03-31

ConnX-VLED Launched by Kulicke & Soffa

Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. yesterday launched its new ConnX-VLEDPSTM automatic ball bonder. Before this official announcement, ConnX-VLED had made its first appearance during March 17-19 at SEMICON China 2009 in Shanghai. As an extension of the company’s leading ConnXPSTM ball bonder, ConnX-VLED also comes with high brightness and high-power LED lamps generally featured by devices specifically designed for vertical LED applications, offering a best solution for diverse LED applications.
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2009-03-31

Pimpstar LED Car Rims: Display Flashing Images When You Are Driving

These Pimpstar rims we’ve never seen before have been newly invented by Dub Custom Wheels. These Pimpstar rims can display images as you roll down the street, and they are programmable using a Wi-Fi equipped laptop.
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2009-03-30

Infineon Releases New High-power LED Driver IC

Infineon Technologies AG has recently released a low-cost LED driver IC which offers thermal protection and high output current accuracy for high-power LEDs in general lighting applications.
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2009-03-30

Honda Creates Giant LED Display out of Insights

After Samsung’s video of LED-equipped sheep flock to promote its new LED TVs, Honda has followed suit in the innovation with the upcoming commercial for its new Insight.
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2009-03-30

“The Best Light Bulb in The World” Is Released by Fortuna Company

A new LED light bulb which is claimed as “the best light bulb in the world” has been released on Friday by the Fortuna-based C. Crane Company in Humboldt County, California.
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2009-03-27

A 103 Foot LED HD Scoreboard in New Yankee Stadium

In New York, in the center field of the new Yankee stadium which has cost $1.3 billion to build, now stands an immense 103 foot LED HD scoreboard which is six time larger than the screen at the old stadium. The 103-by-58 foot, 1080p HD scoreboard is a Mitsubishi Diamond Vision LED product. Embedded with 8,601,600 LED lamps, for a total of 5,925 square feet, the scoreboard can throw up as many as four simultaneous images, with picture-in-picture capabilities. At that enormous size, the puckered, sweat-oozing pore of your famous pitcher will be the size of a real human.
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2009-03-27

Dominant Releases New Right Angle DomiLEDs of Longer Life and Higher Light Intensity

Dominant Semiconductors recently added new high intensity white (DSW-NSG) and warm white (DSF-NSG) which feature longer life and higher light intensity to its Right Angle DomiLED series, replacing the existing DSW-USD device.
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2009-03-27

TXU Energy Install LEDs in Parking Garage to Save Energy

TXU Energy has just had its parking garage retrofitted with LEDs to reduce energy costs. Lighting Science Group Corporation announced yesterday the completion of the retrofit after replacing the existing 175 watt metal halide light fixtures with state-of-the-art 78 watt light-emitting diode (LED) low bay parking garage fixtures for the garage.
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2009-03-26

Duke Evaluates Use of LED Street Light for Future Application

A one year program to evaluate the use of LED outdoor street lights has been launched by the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Duke Energy Carolinas.
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2009-03-26

Diodes Incorporated Releases New LED Driver Family Which Allows Use of Fewer Components

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global provider of semiconductor products, has recently released a family of LED driver ICs which require the support of only four components and operate at switching frequencies up to 600kHZ, which makes possible the use of fewer and smaller external components to be required by driver circuits.
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2009-03-25

New LED lighting system developed for convenience stores in Japan

A new LED lighting system targeted for commercial facilities has recently been developed by Daiwa House Industry Co. Ltd. in collaboration with Nabesho Co. Ltd. and Kyocera Corp.
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2009-03-25

Seoul Semiconductor to supply LEDs for LED Farming Demonstration Project in Japan

Seoul Semiconductor Co. will be a supplier of 300 thousand pieces of LED for “LED Farming Demonstration Project” which is organized by Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry of Japan with the purpose to demonstrate the application of LED in farming lighting.
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2009-03-25

Samsung launches first LED TVs in global market

Samsung Electronics Co. has launched today its first LED TV products in global markets. The new line of LED flat panel TVs include Series 8000, 7000 and 6000, coming from 32-inch to 55-inch in sizes. With LEDs as the primary light source, the new TVs feature ultra-high contrast ratios compared to the traditional TVs using Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps. And the motion blur and image judder problems typically affecting LCD TVs have also been substantially reduced in the new LED TVs, said the company.
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2009-03-25

Edison Opto offers 27W & 100W modules targeted for Street Lighting

As major cities worldwide has initiated green lighting by replacing local street lights with LED light source for the benefit of energy-saving, Edison Opto has introduced 27W and 100W modules tailored for street lighting application. The 27W street lighting module consists of 24 high power Edixeon LEDs, each equipped with a proprietary elliptical secondary lens, achieving a luminous efficacy up to 83lm/W. The LEDs are mounted on a metal core PCB (121x135mm) for easy assembly.
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2009-03-25

Patented LED flashlight technology firstly added to wristwatches

LED flashlight technology has recently for the first time been added to a wristwatch as in the new digital watch product recently released by iBEAM. New features and applications have been essential factors for watch brands to win the market. So iBEAM has made sure to have a hit with consumers and retailers with this new adoption of LED flashlight to its new product.
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2009-03-25

Networked LED streetlights illuminate crime-ridden section in San Francisco

LED streetlights are to illuminate the dark in a most crime-ridden block in the city of San Francisco. And the Mayor Gavin Newsom will visit the section today to test the energy-saving light source by lighting four street lights using his iPhone. LED street lights consume much less power than traditional streetlights. And the lights with computer chips are networked over power lines thus can be shut off when no one is around. Besides, LED lights require far less maintenance and are tough to break. But these are not the most important for this weirdest section in the city.
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2009-03-24

A video of LED-equipped sheep flock draw over 2 million views

A video of sheep equipped with LED lights released by Samsung last week to promote its new LED TV range has attracted more than 2 million viewers on YouTube in less than one week.
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2009-03-24

New ultrathin LED monitor products launched by Diguang Electronics

Diguang Electronics, a LED and CCFL backlight supplier of China, has launched its new range of 19" ultrathin LED monitors.                                    
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2009-03-24

Camera-tracking LED system helps robots win regional championship

On the St. Louis Regional FIRST Robotics Competition held in Missouri, USA on Saturday, the robots from Baxter Bomb Squad not only had beaten the rival in the matches, but also received the Rockwell Innovation in Controls Award for its camera-tracking LED system. This camera-tracking LED system was implemented in the Baxter Bomb robots to track the goals of robots in the opposite team. And the proximity of their robot to the goals was displayed in red, blue and green LEDs, said Steve Hatch, one of the team's sponsors.
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2009-03-24

NeoPac Opto pushes output brightness with single-packaged, multi-chip point-light-source LEDs to the new era of 1,500 lumen maintenance

Combining creative thinking and proactive actions, NeoPac Opto once again pushed output brightness with single-packaged, multi-chip point-light-source LEDs light engine to the new era at over 1,500 lumen maintenance.
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2009-03-24

Luminus introduced multi-color LED modules for entertainment and architectural applications

Two new PhlatLight LED modules for entertainment and architectural uses are introduced by Luminus Devices Inc. in Billerica, USA. And the products has been planned to enter the markets from 2H09. Claimed as the first multi-color LEDs by the company with individually controllable color channels, the new modules based on PhlatLight (Photonic Lattice) LED large-chip architecture can produce over 2500 lumen of total light output from a optical area of merely 6mm x 8mm.
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VueReal, the pioneer of MicroSolid Printing™, today announced a significant expansion of its Reference Design Kit (RDK) portfolio with new industry-specific bundles. Purpose-built for automotive and consumer electronics, the vertical RDK... READ MORE

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual and edtech solutions, announces the shipping of LDS138-151, a 138-inch all-in-one, mobile Direct View LED Display Solution Kit. The ViewSonic LDS138-151 is a fully pre-assembled kit that bui... READ MORE