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 A pair of fiber optic heels lit by a LED
 Fri, 07/16/2010 ivan

Italian designer Francesca Castagnacci created a pair of heels which were made from strands of fiber optics as thin as human hair and lit by a LED.

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 Dialight LED Pedestrian Signals Improve Crosswalk Safety in City of Spokane
 Tue, 08/10/2010 - 09:52— e.yuan

Kerry Ko Dialight announced that the city of Spokane, Washington has completed the installation of 132 of the company’s ITE-compliant LED pedestrian countdown timers to improve crosswalk safety and comply with the latest requirements in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Highways Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).

To complete the project, the city took advantage of a $100,000 Federal Highways Safety Grant to pay for the signals and the installation along Third Avenue from Division to Maple Streets, and at Second and Fourth Avenues on Maple and Walnut Streets.

"The timers will effectively improve pedestrian safety along this corridor, which was identified for the upgrade based on historical data on pedestrian and vehicle collisions from the State Department of Transportation,” said Katherine Miller, capital program manager for the city of Spokane. “The new signals are highly visible, and we were quite pleased with Dialight’s quick delivery of the product and ease of installation.”

The December 2009 revised MUTCD released by the Federal Highway Administration requires the use of countdown pedestrian signals at all new installations with a pedestrian clearance interval of =7 seconds. While the MUTCD did not require the retrofit of existing pedestrian signals, it does require the conversion to countdown pedestrian signals on the next scheduled replacement of the signal. To achieve early compliance, the city took advantage of the opportunity to use stimulus funds to improve intersection safety for pedestrians and bicyclists.

"Dialight’s maintenance-free LED timers are extremely durable and reliable to provide years of safety and service, even in harsh conditions,” said Mike Smith, president of Advanced Traffic Products, the authorized distributor of Dialight signals who worked on the Spokane installation. “The signals not only improve safety for residents, but also contribute to the city’s ongoing downtown renewal efforts.”

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 Cree to light up the World's First Habitat for Humanity house
 Tue, 08/10/2010 - 08:57— e.yuan
jasminezhuang Cree partnerships with Habitat for Humanity of Durham to light up the construction on the world's first Habitat for Humanity house with its newest LED downlight, the CR6™ downlight and other LED products.

It's said that, compared with traditional lighting, the LED lighting in this house is projected to save approximately $250 worth of electricity costs per year .

The LED lighting in the new Durham home, located at 1015 Moreland Avenue, is part of Cree's previously announced three-year, $1.5 million pledge to provide its high-efficiency LED downlights for all new Habitat homes built in the U.S. The house is expected to be completed by October 2010.

Durham-based LED manufacturer Cree is sponsoring the construction of this home, with Cree employees assisting as volunteers on the project.

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 BluGlass designed the fifth-generation remote RPCVD system
 Tue, 08/10/2010 - 09:32— e.yuan

jasminezhuang BluGlass Ltd of Sydney, Australia has completed the design, installation as well as commissioning of its fifth-generation remote RPCVD system.

It has developed a low-temperature process using RPCVD to grow materials including GaN and InGaN on glass substrates for the production of LEDs since spinning off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005.

Also, in May 2009, BluGlass said that it intended to develop high-efficiency group III-nitride solar cells as a supplementary market for its RPCVD technology. Construction of the new tool was enabled as part of the $4.95m grant awarded in June last year under the Commonwealth Government's Climate Ready program for its 'High Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cell Project'.

According to chief technology officer Ian Mann,BluGlass' plant in Silverwater now has an additional 50% nitride deposition capacity onsite, with three RPCVD tools running concurrent programs aimed at optimizing the technology. "This will accelerate the development of RPCVD for commercial applications, in both the company's market streams — LED and photovoltaic (solar)."

It estimates that demonstration of the new system should accelerate its technology roadmap and advance its discussions with potential strategic partners.

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