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Broad Solutions Support Helps Lumolar Deliver RGB Accent Lights

Unusual fish-shaped LED luminaires developed by Toronto-based Lumolar can shift from looking like Chinese lanterns to changing colors like the aurora borealis, with the help of LED solutions support provided by Future Lighting Solutions.

14 Jan 2009

BetaLED Luminaires Key to Efficient Lighting at Parking Structure

BetaLED luminaires were unveiled yesterday at the University of California, Davis' Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center For The Performing Arts' parking structure, Davis, CA. LED fixtures, featuring activity-sensing technology adapted and developed at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis, provide enhanced nighttime visibility and reduce energy consumption by up to 80 percent.

13 Jan 2009

Visually Challenged MIT Poet's 'Seeing Machine' Allows Sight-Impaired to Take Photos

The demonstration comes more than 20 years after Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and colleagues began work on a "seeing machine" that can allow some people who are blind or visually challenged to access the Internet, view the face of a friend and much more.

13 Jan 2009

Researchers Use Streamlined Polarization to Boost Performance of LEDs

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.

13 Jan 2009

Solutions Enable Tunable White Lighting with Highest-lumen LEDs

Cypress's intelligent lighting solutions simplify white lighting designs by giving users the ability to select white light temperatures points on a gamut in PSoC Designer 5.0 software. Cypress has integrated the XLamp device specifications and temperature characteristics into the content library of PSoC Designer 5.0 software, which supports Cypress's EZ-Color™ LED controllers.

12 Jan 2009

Samsung Launches Super-Thin LED Monitor Delivering More Vibrant Color

Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, the number one monitor brand in the world, announced today the addition of a super-thin LED monitor to its "Touch of Color" (ToC™) family - the P2370L.

7 Jan 2009

LED Technology Brings Higher Contrast Ratios, Slimmer Designs and Improved Energy Efficiency to the Living Room

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, raises the bar for flat-panel TVs everywhere with the launch of an entirely new line-up of advanced LED HDTVs. Samsung's latest HDTVs will be on display at Booth #11033 during the International Consumer Electronics Show, which will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 8 -11, 2009.

7 Jan 2009

MEGAPLUS Cameras Enable New Animation Methods in Feature Film Coraline

Princeton Instruments is pleased to report the extensive use of its MEGAPLUS EC11000 color CCD cameras in the production of the soon-to-be-released feature film 'Coraline'. This full-length animated movie from LAIKA (Portland, OR) is the first major stop-motion feature to be shot with industrial machine vision cameras, as well as the first to be shot in stereoscopic 3D.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 7 Jan 2009

New LED Retrofit Bulbs Giving Users Ultimate Flexibility in Lighting Displays

Over the past several years, many Christmas light displays have gone from static to animated, using LED-based technology. As the trend continues to shift towards LED lighting, a Minnesota-based company has launched new LED retrofit bulbs that will give commercial and recreational users ultimate flexibility in their lighting displays.

7 Jan 2009

MM200 Engine to Debut at Consumer Electronics Show

This week, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, 3M™ will unveil the MM200, a new design in the company’s expanding miniature projection portfolio. Offering brilliant color and VGA resolution with an exceptionally thin profile, the 3M MM200 represents an evolutionary leap in mobile projection technology.

6 Jan 2009

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