2015-08-04

UC Berkley Bioengineers Use LED Lights to Speed up DNA Replication

New technology developed by UC Berkeley bioengineers promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light.
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2012-10-24

LED 50th Anniversary: Celebrating Today’s LED Applications

Fifty years ago this month, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the five decades since, businesses and municipalities the world over have embraced LED systems for both their cost and maintenance savings, including:    The City of Las Vegas Las Vegas is best known for the bright lights of 'The Strip,' but thanks to new LED fixtures, the city's surrounding streets are starting to take on a shine of their own. Far from a gamble, an investment in GE LED streetl...
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With the rise of streaming services and endorsements from the Hollywood movie industry, an increasing number of movies, TV series, and documentary concert films are being produced using Virtual Production (VP) and Extended Reality (XR) technol... READ MORE

A tiny Chip LED from ams OSRAM offers higher brightness, making it simply ideal for integration into everyday devices such as in-ear headphones or smart rings The enhanced Chip LED from ams OSRAM delivers higher brightness—while taking u... READ MORE