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Articles Posted October 2006

  • LED lighting conserving dark skies

    by koibito on Oct 31, 2006 | No Comments

    Several prominent buildings in Korea have upgraded to LED lighting. The optimal green upgrade would have been to minimize the exterior lighting or eliminate it altogether (see Dark Skies). That said, LEDs do have the green advantages of energy efficiency, durability and the ability to control light intelligently. The GS Tower (seen here) has used [...]

    Posted in Environment

  • History of LED calculator watches

    by koibito on Oct 30, 2006 | No Comments

    Watchismo, a stupendous vintage watch blog, has a drool-inducing feature on the history of calculator watches. (I would have blogged this post about the amazing, domed Rolex diving watch, but at $250,000 a throw, they’re more heartbreaking than wonderful.)Playboy magazine, June 1975…A gift-giving advertisement with ideas for dads & grads included this guy hidden in [...]

    Posted in Gadgets, Products

  • The Big Round Cubatron

    by koibito on Oct 27, 2006 | No Comments

    The BRC is the world’s largest 3-dimensional full color dynamiclight sculpture. It is an array of lights 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. It consists of 28 spokes, each of which is 24 lights wide by 9 lights high. Each light is independently controllable to display any color and brightness level and the [...]

    Posted in Projects

  • Next Generation Displays from Lightengine

    by koibito on Oct 21, 2006 | No Comments

    During the last ten years Lightengine has developed a display management architecture, drawing from its experience with major projects, which now offers truly advanced integration of lighting, moving imagery and real time control. Using high performance, open systems-based computing and networks, and drawing upon reliability and data security techniques from the aerospace industry, Lightengine products [...]

    Posted in Display, Environment

  • (LED) Lighting up the World

    by koibito on Oct 19, 2006 | No Comments

    While trekking in Nepal in 1997, Dave Irvine-Halliday was struck by the plight of rural villagers having to rely on smelly, dim and dangerous kerosene lanterns to light their homes. Hoping to make a difference, Dr Irvine-Halliday, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Calgary in Canada, founded the Light Up The World [...]

    Posted in Science

  • Great James Clar 3D Display Cube Now on Sale

    by koibito on Oct 14, 2006 | No Comments

    Does anybody remember great 3D display cube that we talk about 3 month ago? If not let us remember: Each 3D Display Cube is a true spatial display unit that utilizes 1000 individually controllable LEDs to create 3D forms and animations. Whether used for retail or public display, signage applications, home display, or advertising, the [...]

    Posted in Products