In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human ...
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Organizers of Invest in Photonics 2012, a two-day international convention on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, said that participation at last month’s event increased “despite a tough investment decade in ...
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Ambient: The surrounding light level in a given area. It is also the temperature in which a LED light source is expected to operate in. Referring to light, it is the light given off by the Sun, Moon, other light fixtures nearby or even ...
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Judges have compiled their shortlist of the most innovative and exciting lighting products and projects for Lighting Design Awards 2013. Entrants in the Product Innovation section of the Lighting Design Awards gathered at Lighting’s ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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Thanks to its technological advancement and innovation in energy-efficient lighting, MEGAMAN® achieved global recognition at Asia’s largest autumn lighting fair, the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2012. During the four-day ...
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Talk about your interior design accessory with a history! The candle has been a primary means of lighting for thousands of years, used in homes, public buildings, and of course in churches. The Ancient Egyptians used candles in an early ...
Image courtesy of thepowerpot.com Electricity It's what's for dinner.Inventors David Toledo and Paul Slusser of Salt Lake City have made generating electricity as simple as making a meal with the Power Pot,a portable cooking pot that ...
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The Cree XLamp MK-R LED offers up to 1600 lm at typical operating temperature matching the capabilities of many COB SSL arrays while featuring a smaller optical source for superior beam control. Cree has announced the XLamp MK-R packaged ...
Trick-or-treating, costume parties and apple bobbing… Halloween conjures up plenty of fun childhood memories. The annual holiday is well-known with children across the world, with thousands dressing up in scary costumes on October ...
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The folk dances of the 840,000 Dai Ethnic Group enjoy not only wide popularity but great diversity. Most of them imitate the movements of subtropical creatures. The percussion instruments used for accompaniment include elephant-foot drums, ...
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With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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The renowned lighting designer Ingo Maurer has a New Flame that he will be sharing with the world on November 8,2012 in Munich and on November 15,2012 in New York. My New Flame's elegant,slim style merges the ageless fascination with a ...
Missoni fashion house and the Canadian high-end store Holt Renfrew have partnered to create a limited-edition, worldwide-exclusive plush bear and elephant that will support OrphanAid Africa. To celebrate the launch, Margherita Missoni, ...
The next generation member of the XLamp XM-L LED family is a single-die component that delivers 186 lm/W at 350-mA drive current and 25°C operating temperature. Cree has announced what it says is the brightest single-die packaged LED ...