Strategies in Light 2009 – Lighting the Future with LEDs

The tenth Strategies in Light conference features a separate lighting track aimed at lighting designers, specifiers and architects.

NIST researchers describe new approach to LED measurement

The new technique allows correlation between pulsed, instantaneous measurements and steady-state DC measurements.

BASF and Osram demonstrate 60 lm/W white OLED

The two German companies have reported the laboratory demonstration of a small panel that emits white light with coordinates close to the Planck curve.

LED installation responds to urban environment

An installation in Paris translates vehicle and passenger traffic and mobile phone activity into motion and light.

Seoul launches ultra-slim Z-power LED Z1 for lighting

The new Z1 series from Seoul has a thickness of only 1.2 mm and can produce a maximum of 120 lumens when driven at 400 mA, in cool white.

Walgreens lights up colossal multi-component LED sign in Times Square

The massive 250,000-pound sign is programmed from street level to 341 feet high at the top of the building.

Make Magazine produces a movie all about LED Lights and other horribly nerdy information.

Make Magazine, a popular geek magazine for hackers (in the real sense of the word, not the media sense of the word) have released a neat little video all about LED lighting and where they started, and how they got to become one of the most important things for future energy use and consumption.

Check it out


MAKE presents: The LED from make magazine on Vimeo.

Huge Spinning LED POV Display. Watch out for decapitations!

Looks like this new creation, while beautiful, is also slightly deadly. It’s called the “Display from Hell” and, well, that’s almost exactly what it is. It’s using 100 blue SMD LED’s on the blades, and it spins at an astounding 140MPH. Yup, 140MPH.

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