The CC VIVID Plus LED light bulb has a standard cork screw socket, but with a ten year lifespan and like most clustered LED light bulbs of its category, is quickly becoming the trend in sustainable solutions to indoor/outdoor artificial lighting.

The LED is a directional light, that will last for a long time and works well with dimming mechanisms, but when clustered (such as this one with 36 LEDs), that directional lighting quantifies immensely.

available in AC or DC, 120V AC (1.84 Watts) and 12V DC (2.5 Watts), 60 lumens, 36 LEDs, dispersed output, average bulb life of 60,000 hours (ten years), safe for outdoor/indoor/small space use, with a two year warranty, measures 3.25 x 2.25 and ships at one pound.

Energy efficient, dispersed higher light output, perfect for accent lighting, reading, porches, smaller rooms, hallways, cubbyholes, or wherever needed most around the home; clustered LED light bulbs such as the CC VIVID Plus LED bulb are a great way to improve the environmental friendliness of your home for a more self-reliant way of life that starts with your pocket book.

The initial versions of the company’s Mirasol MEMS displays have snagged eight designs wins over the past year; three of them in cellphone handsets, despite being monochrome. Based on a movable membrane technology called interferometric modulation, the displays are reflective devices that offer two advantages over LEDs and OLEDs: they consume very little power and are readable under outdoor ambient lighting conditions.

The new line of colorful displays includes 0.9-inch, 2.1-inch and 3.3-inch diagonal devices. The 0.9-inch, with a 128 x 96-pixel format and miniscule 9mW power diet, has been chosen by Freestyle Audio for its next-generation waterproof, shockproof MP3 players. Freestyle’s market consists of music enthusiasts who are involved in outdoor sports such as swimming, surfing, boogie boarding, snowboarding, rafting, kayaking, recreational bicycling, running and hiking.

The new Freestyle devices will be submersible. “With regard to their display’s outdoor readability, you would not want a surfer to cup his hand to read the display while he’s being chased by a shark,” quipped Jim Cathey, QMT VP of business development.

The monochrome Mirasol displays are manufactured primarily for Qualcomm by Prime View International in Taiwan, and last month Qualcomm announced collaboration with Taiwan’s Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co. Ltd to establish a new Taiwan factory for its next-generation displays, also known as multicolor displays.

“Using Grote’s advanced product development prowess and Grote’s leading LED WhiteLight technology we were able to develop a more advanced back-up lamp featuring high output LEDs,” said Steve Green, business development manager for signal lighting. “The advancement in Grote’s LED WhiteLight technology and its related surface mount electronics production systems, have migrated to our SuperNova signal lighting line.”

The lamps feature standard Grote Male Pin and hard-shell terminations and are fully encapsulated in patented specially formulated potting which provides thermal protection as well as corrosion, shock and moisture resistance.

Grote’s new lamp meet all FMVSS,108 and SAE requirements for visibility and safety.

Big time events will definitely appreciate huge screens such as these, since the noise from an F1 or Indy car is anything but quiet. Thankfully, we still have our visual faculties to help us get a hang of everything around us, and these huge LED displays were specially constructed to be seen at a distance in daylight conditions, enabling it to easily address outdoor audiences of over 100,000 people. The brightest Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) technology available can be found in these mammoth displays, making the MEGASCREENS (as it is known) to be the biggest and most powerful LED-based display solution to date.

Setting it up at an event isn’t as simple as hooking up a few cables like the TV in your licing room though - it will take around an hour to get it up and running right after it arrives onsite. Good news is, this can be done by a single technician or truck driver, doing away with the need for you to employ yet another tech-head to get it going. The image area sizing measures 39.4′ wide and 22′ in height, allowing you and the audience to view the promotional material in a true 16:9 aspect ratio for direct usage of 720P HDTV signals. Other features include an LED element pitch of 15mm and a brightness range up to 10,000NITS. I can’t wait for the first proposal in the world that uses this screen.