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Magic Spheres: A Control Unit For Light

People of all generations have been responsive to speed of technology — faster is better; specifically, more efficient; and the motto drives innovation. In the past, Moore’s Laws and shrinking transistors have fulfilled this need for speed, but technology also has an operating frequency limitation, which is drawing nearer to the theoretical limit. Unfortunately, the […]

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31 August, 2015
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For Light-Emitting Diodes, Size Matters

LED’s were a huge break-through from traditional bulbs like incandescent and fluorescent. They rank supreme in terms of lighting efficiency, durability, and lifetime. Although light-emitting diodes don’t have a heat-dissipating, energy-wasting burning filament, they do have just a tiny plastic enclosure containing photon emissions. That’s a pretty nice trade-off. Just for Christmas lights alone, LED gives […]