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Neon dying out
Published in News
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 08:14

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 
Published in News


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
Published in News
Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:04

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
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:29

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
Published in PC Hardware


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
Published in News
Thursday, 27 September 2018 10:49

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
Published in News


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
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 08 March 2018 10:41

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
Published in News
Friday, 24 February 2017 11:22

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
Published in News
Tuesday, 03 January 2017 00:27

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.