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 ...
Tags: LED lights, traditional sodium lights, glow worm population
Scotland could save millions of pounds per year by upgrading to LED streetlights, according to statistics compiled by Scottish Future Trust. Only 5% of Scotland’s 890,820 streetlights are using energy-efficient bulbs, reported STV ...
Tags: LED streetlights, save energy
LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®), the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, returns to Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2017 for its 28th-annual staging ...
Tags: LEDs, OLEDs, luminaires
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has just published a technical memorandum, TM-30-15, that outlines a new system for evaluating the color rendition of light sources. While the International Commission on Illumination's Color ...
Tags: IES, light sources, color rendition
Highly efficient, LEDs could slash the world’s electricity consumption. They are already sold in stores, but more widespread adoption of the technology has been hindered by high costs due to limited availability of raw materials and ...
Tags: White LEDs, Highly efficient, LED light
Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. While the design ...
Tags: Bendable LEDs, flexible LEDs
Paul Mercier is heavily involved in the lighting industry. As the principal and founder of Lighting Design Innovations, with offices in Calgary, Alberta and Batavia, New York, recent textbook author, various industry association memberships ...
Tags: LED lighting design, Science of Illumination, lighting industry
Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta and Dutch-based life sciences company DSM are collaborating to develop microbial-based agricultural solutions such as bio-controls, bio-pesticides and bio-stimulants and plan to commercialize these ...
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Toyota is planning to boost research into artificial intelligence, robotics and big data through $1bn investment. The company is also forming a new wing, Toyota Research Institute, which is expected to help the company narrow the gap ...
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UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is working with the pharmaceutical industry to create user friendly packaging for medicines that are used to treat Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's medicines such as ...
Tags: Dementia Medicines, Packaging
In the USA, DuPont has opened its 113 million litre cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, IA, which is said to be the world’s largest cellulosic biofuels refinery opened to date. In Asia, DuPont recently announced its first licensing ...
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The global photonics market is worth at least $150bn, according to analysis by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics (and owner of optics.org). The data were presented last week (4 September) by SPIE’s Industry and ...
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The value of annual sales in the global photonics market has been revised upwards to $182bn, according to new analysis by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics (and owner of optics.org). The new results were presented by ...
Flat-panel computer monitors capable of producing an unprecedented range of colors are going on sale in Europe next month, thanks to quantum dot technology that appears on the verge of making a major impact on the displays industry. ...
To many Chinese, the early 1980s were part of a "golden era" for idealists. A romance film named after the decade has recently made a nostalgic splash among those missing their lost youth and dreams. Love in the 1980s, adapted from a ...
Tags: romance film, Romantic Era, Business