Neon dying out
Iconic signs being replaced by LED
The iconic neon signage at Rockefeller Center faces extinction as Tishman Speyer proposes replacing it with energy-efficient LEDs.
Blue Screen light makes you old, fat and slightly nuts
If you are a fruit fly
The Blue Light from computer screens could make you fat, nuts, and age faster, according to a new study.
Google sharks virtual reality outfit Raxium
LED for augmented and mixed reality devices
Google has written a cheque to buy Raxium, a "five-year-old startup that develops tiny light-emitting diodes for displays used in augmented and mixed reality devices."
Blue light LED lighting can damage eyes
Messes with your sleep too
New research from France suggests that "blue light" in LED lighting can damage the eye's retina and disturb natural sleep rhythms.
Foxconn will go ahead with a downsized US LED plant
After having a word with Donald Trump
Foxconn Technology Group will go ahead with plans to build a heavily government-subsidised plant in Wisconsin to make LCD after its chairman spoke with President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump.
US dims Chinese lights
Strike a light!
An all out trade war between the USA and China has claimed more victims, with LED lighting being the latest casualty.
Chinese boffins use infrared LEDs to fool security cameras
Fool facial recognition software
A group of Chinese computer boffins has published a paper claiming that you can mess up facial recognition software by shining hat brim mounted infrared LEDs on the user's face, projecting CCTV-visible, human eye invisible shapes designed to fool the face recognition software.
Russians come up with new superscreen tech
OLED is really looking silly now
Lomonosov Moscow State University boffins and their chums at the Russian Academy of Sciences have emerged from their smoke filled labs holding a new liquid crystal material with high potential as a basis for brighter, faster, energy saving displays with higher resolution.
Hard-drive LED light can grass you up
Yet another thing to put masking tape on
Tinfoil hat wearers who have been putting masking tape on a PC’s cameras might want to put it over their LED lights too.
OLED suffers from burn in effect
To be fixed in 2018
Bad news for everyone who wanted to get an OLED TV soon. Some industry experts have told Fudzilla that current generation OLED TVs suffer from a built in defect and that the companies are seeing a lot of TVs being returned after a year of use.