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LED displays are regularly used at major public events to inform and entertain the crowds, with New Year’s Eve always being a global celebration at which this type of technology is a common feature. In some of America’s largest cities, LED displays were used in place of traditional clocks, to help count down to the…

LED displays are becoming more popular across many markets, providing improved energy efficiency and slenderness over traditionally backlit screens. However, manufacturers of such solutions are tending towards the use of fewer LED units for backlighting purposes, to cut production costs, which can result in a dip in the brightness levels that are achievable on such…

Energy experts in the US have been talking up the use of LED solutions when it comes to rigging festive lighting displays this Christmas, with falling prices and rising demand helping to expand this area of the market. NBC reports that for an average household running around 600 traditional incandescent Christmas lights for a duration…

There was much talk of the LED technology that would be integrated into the third generation iPad prior to its launch in the spring of 2012. This was largely due to the fact that Apple would be including more LED backlighting, in order to accommodate the increased resolution of the new Retina Display that the…

Street lights are a vital part of any community, although many councils in the UK are attempting to find ways of making them much more efficient in order to both save money and reduce carbon emissions. A new scheme, set to be trialled in San Francisco, could hold a few answers to the street light…

The high street has been taking a bit of a pummelling over the last four years, with sales down due to economic pressures and the ever growing number of people who use the internet to meet their shopping needs. However, bricks and mortar retail always enjoys a boost in the run up to Christmas, when…

Scientists and researchers have invested a lot of time and money looking into ways which might make it possible to embed displays into contact lenses. This kind of technology would allow users to view the world with a screen that appears to be projected in front of them, without having to carry a gadget or…

LED displays have been outpacing traditionally backlit screens in both commercial and consumer markets for the last few years, but so far, the resolution barrier of 1080p, otherwise known as full HD, has yet to be breached at the lower end of the panel size scale. Japanese manufacturer, Sharp, is hoping to change all that…

A glitzy event was held to herald the arrival of one of New York’s latest attractions – an LED display mounted on the crown of the Empire State Building which can be seen from miles around. The unveiling of the LED display’s capabilities was carried out in conjunction with pop star, Alicia Keys, who also…

LEDs and LED displays have been used in various major art projects over the years, offering creative types tons of flexibility when it comes to what can actually be created. Now the local authorities in the Canadian city of Ottawa are planning a very unusual art installation called The Screen, which will be erected in…