Google’s self-driving subsidiary Waymo is retiring its prototype autonomous vehicle, dubbed Firefly. The Firefly vehicle, which has no wheel and pedals, was developed as a platform to experiment and learn, but not for mass ...
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The Welsh City Council in UK has switched to LED lights, since traditional sodium lights was interfering with local glow worm population’s reproduction habits, reported Daily Post. In short, the male glow worms were more attracted ...
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This round look chubby light source is a lamp. Fireflies Light, dragging a long tail, it is from French designer Lonna Vautrin - Clover Pilot Light. It is displayed In Frankfurt in 2015. The gleam of it brings warm feeling, let a person ...
This is a "live" mouse, if no operation in three minutes it will automatically enter a state of dormancy breathing, feeling like a firefly flying. Interesting is that it also has the accelerometer, when use it as long as easy to set up it ...
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A Mayer and A Bay of University of Namur in Belgium have applied a 'genetic algorithm' to the problem of finding optimal surface textures for light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Journal of Optics, ...
The Tower House was designed as a vacation home for Gluck+ architect Thomas Gluck and his family. Image: Paul Warchol The home is four stories and 2,500 square feet. Image: Paul Warchol A staircase zigzags through the house, connecting ...
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Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of The Last of Us™, available exclusively for the PlayStation®3 (PS3®) computer entertainment system. The Story Line Developed by ...
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Street lighting is like a silent energy drain that no one pays attention to except when they are not lit. Street lighting costs the United States and other countries billions a year in maintenance, replacement of old bulbs costs and the ...
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A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
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IKEA has intended to sell only LED lighting in its stores by 2016. “No more halogen. No more Sparsam low-energy bulbs. No more fluorescent lights. We’re putting all our development and design efforts behind LEDs because we ...
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The LED lighting industry is continuing to adapt at a rapid rate with more and more individuals becoming aware of the energy and monetary savings that can be made from installing such ceiling spotlights in the home. An increasing number ...
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LED light bulbs are increasingly being used by people all over the world as they are an energy-efficient way of illuminating the home. However, a company in Cambridge claims to have found a new way of cutting heat even further in LED ...
The night time twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify an LED light bulb so that it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada carried out extensive ...
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Photuris firefly scales Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada have drawn inspiration from nature by mimicking the design of the bioluminescent firefly, which they say can help maximise the glow on LEDs by up to 55 per cent. A ...
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The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal ...
Tags: LEDs, LED light, LED design, LED production