Taiwan-based LED lighting solutions and products provider, Xodtec LED, Inc., is lighting up the dome of the Fullon Hotel and Resort in Hualien City, Taiwan with RGB full color LED wall washers, expecting to make these buildings prominent among all hotels in Hualien City. Xodtec RGB full color LED wall washer is compliant with RoHS, power consumption 40W, and capable to emit more than sixteen million colors. With the colorfull LED wall washers, the grand dome is expected to be the new landmark.

Renesas Electronics America has released its R2A20134 LED driver IC which can supply high efficiency and a high power factor at low cost for LED lighting applications.   Renesas Electronics’ voltage step-down control technology (single-stage) provides a high line-to-ground voltage. Besides, the ability to select low-voltage MOSFETs (voltage tolerance of only 500 volts (V) to 300 V, rather than the typical 700 V) further contributes to lower system cost.

ANC Sports Enterprises announced the company’s continued expansion into televised entertainment through a partnership with StarGames’ special Christmas Day program The Caesars Tribute presented by Colgate Total®: A Salute to the Golden Age of American Skating.

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) announced its Array™ Lighting LED light bulbs have recently been shipped to a number of significant private and public facilities, who are now enjoying the energy saving and sustainability benefits of LED lighting. Recent projects include the prestigious Wharton School of Business, the Hyatt Regency - Miami, the Maryland Institute of College Arts, the University of Minnesota and Presbyterian Homes in Chicago as well as the King of Prussia Mall, outside of Philadelphia.

Lusio® Solid State Lighting, a worldwide brand and division of LightWild has introduced 80 innovative SSL fixtures for warehouses, convention centers, transportation terminals, manufacturing plants, and other commercial and industrial facilities.  

TT electronics OPTEK Technology has designed an OPI1268S optoisolator with GaAlAs LED, which can be used in harsh environments and explosion-proof applications. The UL- and VDE-rated optical isolator with 20KV isolation and 2Mbit/s data transmission rates designed to comply with ATEX and ICEex certifications for electrical equipment used in hazardous areas, as well as IP65 standards for environmental sealing. 

Georgia Lexus Retailer Replaces 70 1000 Watt Parking Lot Lights with Qnuru’s 144 Watt Auto Dealership LED Retrofit Solution  

BenQ has launched the XL2410T which is the first 3D LED backlit Full HD monitor at a press conference in India. The XL2410T has been co-developed with the help of two professional gamers Emil "HeatoN" Christensen and Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed.  

Enormous increase in brightness for green

TDI and Ostendo has jointly made a breakthrough on semi-polar (11-22) GaN wafers which are more than 2.5x the emission intensity of c-plane GaN based LED structures. These results have in common with the research conducted by Sumitomo Electric Industries who discovered that green laser diodes (LD) grown on the semi-polar GaN plane are more efficient than those grown on the conventional c plane.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of XLamp® XP-E High Efficiency White (HEW) LEDs. The new high-efficiency components extend the light output and efficacy of the award-winning XLamp XP-E LED family, enabling fixture designs that can use up to 50 percent fewer LEDs, which can help drive down costs for fixture and bulb manufacturers while delivering the same system performance.

Colonial Grandeur Meets Contemporary Innovation to Benefit the Home or Hospitality Environment, and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation  

Acuity Brands has introduced the Lithonia Lighting® ALX™ line of outdoor LED area luminaires combine the classic ALX family appearance. The ALXW meets or exceeds recommended IES lighting illuminance levels, producing as much light as a typical 250 watt metal halide (HID) fixture, while reducing energy and operating costs by as much as 62%.

The Mexican municipality has announced plans to install 25,507 GE Evolve LED street lights in Quintana Roo, which would be the largest installation of LED street lights in Latin America.

The city of Corunna, Michigan has replaced a number of downtown 175W metal halide streetlights with 48W LEDs from EvoLucia, the LED lighting subsidiary of Sunovia Energy.   The city installed the EvoLucia PTR Retrofit Kit, a "plug-and-play" LED retrofit product that allows for simple, one-for-one direct replacement using existing poles.

VR Solutions offers dynamic, content-rich, visual resource and media display with great back up and service VR Solutions met up with RGB Spectrum recently at the I/ITSEC 2010 Show to see the latest multiviewer, wall processing, multipoint KVM products on offer, designed for the training, simulation and visualization markets.

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced its new TMS320C2000 real-time microcontroller (MCU) Multi-DC/DC Color LED Kit, which is designed for applications that require a variety of LED types and string lengths for color and intensity purposes, such as automotive and stage lighting. This new kit comprises of separate DC/DC power stages to control two RGB and two white LED strings or up to eight white LED strings.

Extending the uses of their technology into yet another application, GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., announces a totally brand-new product, an LED panel light series named Pollux. Designed to be both fashionable and functional, the very first Pollux series LED panel lights are ideal for replacing traditional tube lights or grid lights.

Ameresco has signed an agreement on the installation of traffic signal LED lamps with the City of Phoenix Public Works and Street Transportation Departments. According to the agreement, Ameresco will provide lighting retrofit services, materials, and equipment for the installation of traffic signal LED lamps.   The Phase I with 335 intersections to be installed, is expected to be completed in early 2011. And the proposed Phase II project is anticipated to include 525 additional intersections.

America Macy's stores intends to replace over 117,000 43-watt halogen-based bulbs used for accent lighting in 86 department stores with 17-watt custom-designed Philips EnduraLED PAR38 SP15 lamps, which makes it the first department store to use LEDs on a wide scale.

LG has rolled out two new lines of HDTVs , called the LW9500 and LW7700 Nano Full LED TV series that use its new Nano Lighting Technology which refers to LG's new method of using LEDs in HDTVs, as well as a new sound bar with six speaker drivers and a separate wireless subwoofer.   LG's Nano LED TVs embed the LEDs behind the LCD panel in a thin film that disperses the light across the set.

Diodes Incorporated has launched the AL8400 linear LED driver controller designed to regulate LED current via an external transistor across wide variations of high brightness LEDs.   The controller is capable of directly operating from 2.2V to 18V and will drive either N-channel MOSFET or NPN Bipolar transistors, and it can be widely used in LED chains includeing illumination, indication or signage systems.

LEDtronics, the nation’s leading designer and manufacturer of energy-saving LED lighting products, has completed a significant eco-friendly pendant lighting project at the Pasadena Central Library that will save the City of Pasadena thousands of dollars, according to city officials.

Dialight picked up the Elektra award for Solid State Lighting Applications at the European Electronics Industry Awards 2010 in the Lancaster Hotel, London on Thursday 9 December 2010 The company beat off stiff competition in the form of finalists Marl International, Osram and TT electronics OPTEK Technology to scoop the award for which solid state lighting products were judged on their performance, design flexibility and suitability for an application.

Based on Power Integrations’ LNK457DG, a member of the innovative LinkSwitch-PL family of LED driver ICs optimized for compact, non-isolated installations, the company has introduced a new reference design (RDK-251) for a 5-watt offline LED driver that includes flicker-free TRIAC dimming and single-stage power factor correction (PFC). The new design features a single constant-current output of 350 mA at a nominal LED string voltage of 15 V.

At Eco-Products 2010, a trade show on green technologies, which took place from Dec 9 to 11, 2010, in Tokyo, Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp and Panasonic Electric Works Co Ltd individually showcased straight tube LED lamps complied with the "JEL801:210" (defined by Japan Electric Lamp Manufacturers Association )standard .

Lighting Science Group has announced its one millionth bulb, an “ultra efficient” omnidirectional LED A19 bulb which delivers an 850 lumen output and should last almost 23 years.   With the new bulb, it claimed title as the first domestic firm to manufacture within the US one million LED light bulbs in less than a year.

Reportedly, Luminus Devices’ CBM-380-RGBW product used inside VARI*LITE VLX Wash Luminaires are in the process of lighting the stage for NBC’s hit television program ‘America’s Got Talent.’   This system delivers a total light output of 14,000 white lumens with an LED lifetime of over 10,000 hours at maximum output.

In a bid to reduce energy, maintenance costs, as well as improve lighting quality, the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia has selected Cooper Lighting for the interior and exterior LED lighting upgrades to its Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau. On the exterior, Cooper Lighting McGraw-Edison Concise LED Canopy fixtures, Talon LED Area Luminaires, and Lumark LED Wal-Pak fixtures will illuminate the building and parking lot.

This past weekend, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) and Habitat for Humanity of Durham celebrated the completion of the world’s first Habitat for Humanity house lit entirely with LED fixtures and bulbs. Durham-based LED manufacturer Cree sponsored the construction of the Habitat house and Cree employees assisted as volunteers on the project. The house includes Cree’s award-winning CR6™ LED downlight, as well as other LED products featuring Cree LEDs from MSi and TESS (Top Energy Saving System Corp.).