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How-To: "Eye of Sauron" swirly vacuum-tube pumpkinOriginal at MAKE Magazine
• Mon, Oct 26
By Sean Michael Ragan The neatest part about this, er, "Pie of Sauron" pumpkin build by AnubisTTP is the vintage Soviet 'dekatron' counting tube that burns at its pupil. It's also got LED backlighting inside. And I couldn't resist posting this little dekatron animated .gif from the Wikipedia article:
Semtech Announces New Platform of Tiny Charge Pumps for LED Backlighting in Handheld Devices
Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
• Mon, Oct 19
Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced the SC654 : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.semtech.com%2Fproducts%2Fsc654%2F&esheet=6077250&lan=en_US&...
EPA unveils new Energy Star specs for monitors
Original at PC World Magazine
• Fri, May 15
Australia The EPA can upgrade the requirements due to a variety of changes, including a shift by monitor manufacturers to LED backlighting from cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) lighting, said Norbert Hildebrand, an analyst at Insight Media Inc., which covers ...
Samsung puts its money on LED
Original at Channel News Asia
• Thu, May 14
Singapore Divided into three lines (the 8000, 7000 and 6000), the series employs light-emitting diodes (LEDs), instead of conventional cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs), for backlighting. LED technology makes the sets slimmer, increases the screen contrast ...
ASUS Adds LED-Based Laptops to Stylish U-Series
Original at PC Magazine
• Thu, May 14
The U80V's 16:9 aspect ratio LED screen, Chiclet-style keyboard, and touchpad are all backlit; the touchpad is illuminated to trace the user's fingertips. AI light-sensing technology automatically adjusts the backlighting. It uses a thin (9.5 mm) DVD ...
Vizio to adopt direct-type LED backlighting for 55-inch tvs
Original at DigiTimes
• Thu, May 14
Taiwan The cost of direct-type backlighting is usually higher than edge-type backlighting, which is adopted in Samsung's LED LEDs, as direct-type backlighting requires more leds, the sources explained. However, Vizio's 55-inch LED TV, which is estimated to ...
MacBook and MacBook Pro Dual ReviewOriginal at Gizmodo
• Thu, Oct 16
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By Mark Wilson As for battery life, we tested the laptops under identical operation settings playing back an H.264 movie and then a DVD movie. (Screens were set to medium brightness, Wi-Fi on and keyboard backlighting on low.) So Who Needs The MacBook Pro over the Macbook?
First Hands-On of Samsung's LED Backlit HDTV LCD (Verdict: LN-T4681F Best Ever)
Original at Gizmodo
• Wed, Oct 24
By Brian Lam The LED backlighting on Samsung's 1080p 81-series makes it the best LCD I've ever seen. You've been hearing about such a screen's advantages for months—that it can turn off individual LEDs section to section, moment to moment, keeping blacks blacker and brights brighter—but over the la...
Hands On With Samsung's Newest TV Tech: Wi-Fi Plasma, LED-Backlight LCD and 120Hz Blur Reduction
Original at Gizmodo
• Wed, Jul 11
By Wilson Rothman LED backlighting is the wave of the future for LCDs, and not just because they are "greener" than the current CCFLs. Because they can alternately dim and brighten 60 or 70 separate clusters of LEDs underneath the LCD panel, you get deeper contrast, but without losing detail in dark scenes. T...