LED headlights for endurance race cars has been launched by Derbyshire-based RaceTech Harnessing. They will make their debut at the 2013 Sebring 12hrs in Florida, and are being installed for...
LED Lighting
The latest Electronics Weekly product news on LED lighting (light-emitting diodes – a semiconductor light source).
Cree Breaks 10,000 lm barrier with LED array
Cree has added two brighter lighting LEDs to its CXA range of multi-die ceramic tile style devices, sometimes known as 'arrays'. At the top end, the cool white CXA3050 typically delivers 6,340 lm...
Toshiba pushes fast opto-couplers to 125C
The DIP8 devices (9.6x7.6x3.6mm), TLP2955 and TLP2958, have a minimum isolation voltage of 5000Vrms and support data rates up to 5Mbit/s. Potential applications include...
LED displays herald quantum leap in interactive advertising
The writing's on the wall – and it's following you. Two new gesture-sensing innovations designed for large electronic screens in public places herald a future in which everything from street art to advertisements track your movements, are fully interactive, and nigh on impossible to ignore.
Car makers focus on LED headlights
LED headlamps are getting better and more cars are getting them as industry finds its feet with the technology. Right now there are some 20 car models on the road with LED...
John Lewis trials ZBD's epaper customer displays
Several hundred of ZBD’s epaper displays have replaced traditional print ticketing to provide customer information
Camera takes complete spectrum at each pixel
Belgian research lab Imec has demonstrated a prototype hyper-spectral stills and video camera. Rather than recording red green and blue intensities at each pixel like a conventional colour camera, hyper-spectral imaging records a...
iWatt views non-dimmable power factor corrected LEDs
iWatt has taken a step into the non-dimmable power factor corrected LED bulb market with its first ac-dc product to feature an npn power switch.
Irish firm claims LED power density record
Cork-based InfiniLED is claiming record LED optical beam intensity - 1mW of light from a 20µm pixel at 405nm, which is over 300W/cm2. It is the highest recorded for a commercially available...
ByteLight LED lights deliver location information
Information flicks onto an iPad screen of its own accord as I walk through a technology exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science. Extra details about rovers and planetary exploration pop up as I sidle over to the Mars Yard, and are replaced as I make just a small step to the right.