20 facts on LEDs?! Jim, are you CRAZY? I just might be! With the new Daily Lamp series and the upcoming JimOnLightTV, I'm all about having regular series spots on JimOnLight! Let's call it Friday Facts! Happy Friday everyone — I am going absolutely LED nuts around here lately, as I've replaced most of the [...]
Read More Friday Facts, GaAsP, GaN, LED, light emitting diode, Monsanto, Nichia Corporation, Nick Holonyak, Shuji Nakamura, The Daily LampOne of my favorite nerds, Jeri Ellsworth, posted a video on making her own EL wire. Okay, now how cool is that?! It's a simple process really, and EL wire is a pretty simple concept. Check out Jeri talking about it below. Oh, also – check out some of Jeri's other videos on YouTube. She [...]
Read More DIY, EL wire, Jeri Ellsworth, Make, VideoOk, whoa. Check out this video first – whoever that is in the video just put a mallet to that AMOLED display! That's Samsung's AMOLED display – the one being shown there is their prototype. It's 2.8 inches, has a resolution of 166ppi, weighs a shade under 0.29g, and is 20 microns thin. Holy crap, [...]
Read More active matrix, AMOLED, OLED, organic, samsung, Super AMOLEDOur good pal and Duluth Crew member Alex Rugowski pointed this out to me a week or so ago – what a cool use of EL wire! Meet the Disco Chair: From the designers' website – Kiwi and Pom, out of London: Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine, the Disco Chair is a bespoke illuminated furniture concept. [...]
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