LEDSynergy News Archive - August 2008
LEDSynergy news achive for August 2008.
LEDs light up Bradford city centre
Bradford's Centenary Square became a beautiful magical garden for five days in August, and LEDs played a big part.LEDs provided the lighting for a pool of dancing water fountains which were both designed and installed by Lancashire business Water Sculptures, reports L&Si Online.The installation was part of the festivities, which also included other...
Friday, 29th August 2008 - full story
Flexible LED display unveiled
A new flexible LED display is to be unveiled at the PLASA show in September.Described as the "world's first full flexible LED video skin", the product can be moulded onto surfaces and forms smooth curves which can display high quality video, reports L&Si Online.The digiFLEX skin, created by displayLED, is produced in 320 by 160 millimetre tiles which...
Friday, 29th August 2008 - full story
Trafalgar Square lit up by LED display
Trafalgar Square in London has been lit up for the last three weeks by an 85 square metre LED display with dual video/TV playback.It featured daily live coverage of the Olympic Games in Beijing and was used for two different festival performance shows during the three weeks, reports L&Si Online.The LED display was set up in front of Nelson's Column and...
Thursday, 28th August 2008 - full story
Dave Matthews' LEDs
Dave Matthews Band have been around for a while but they are looking to the future after utilising LEDs on their latest tour.The band are described as a hybrid fusion of jazz-rock with a heartfelt feel and their recent tour had the lighting show to match the band's music wizardry, reports LEDs Magazine.Lighting designers Aaron Stinebrink and Fenton Williams...
Thursday, 28th August 2008 - full story
Convention centre gets LED display
A convention centre in Raleigh in North Carolina is to feature a new LED display.It will take the form of a shimmer wall art installation and will measure 211 feet long by 44 feet high, taking up one entire wall of the city's convention centre, reports LEDs Magazine.No public funds were used to build the LED display, instead Cree, an LED manufacture,...
Thursday, 28th August 2008 - full story
LED display screens useful in emergencies
Virginia Tech, a university in the USA, has installed state-of-the-art LED display screens in its classrooms as part of its multi-channel emergency response notification system.The LED display screens will join other notification systems, like the university's website and voicemail system, reports CollegiateTimes.com."Anything that improves campus security...
Wednesday, 27th August 2008 - full story
LED panels make television appearance
LED panels have been used to light up the stage in an upcoming television series.Hole In The Wall, a ten-part BBC series, will see two teams with three spandex-clad celebrities taking part, reports LEDs magazine.Each will have seven seconds to jump through a tracking wall containing a number of differently-shaped holes, and failure will lead to them...
Wednesday, 27th August 2008 - full story
LEDs reduce Cambridge Folk Festival carbon impact
The organisers of the 44th annual Cambridge Folk Festival used LEDs to help reduce the event's carbon footprint.LED traffic lights were used in both the car park and the campsite, and the organisers are looking at using LED light fittings for the stages next year, reports LSI Online News.Other energy-saving methods included turning off lighting fixtures at...
Tuesday, 26th August 2008 - full story
Production helps to display LED energy efficiency
The Boxford Masques' biannual community production was the perfect opportunity to display LED energy efficiency.Lawrence T Doyle, the lighting designer for the event, was able to reduce the production's power consumption by a huge 90 per cent, reports LSI Online News.The production, of Knight & Day, was staged over a week in a natural amphitheatre on...
Tuesday, 26th August 2008 - full story
Las Vegas Planet Hollywood gets LED displays
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino has added some large LED displays to its buildings in an attempt to stand out on the Las Vegas strip.Anyone walking past the resort will find it hard to miss, as it features various LED displays including one curved screen that's over 57 feet high.It also has a pylon measuring 180 feet which has back-to-back LED boards...
Friday, 22nd August 2008 - full story
Toshiba and Idemitsu Kosan develop new Organic LED panel
A new small-molecule Organic LED panel for mobile equipment has been jointly developed by Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) and Idemitsu Kosan.The two companies claim that the Organic LED panel has a 30 times longer lifetime and uses one tenth the power consumption of current TMD models.TFT substrate design technology and TMD element design...
Friday, 22nd August 2008 - full story
Singapore National Day features LED display
While the Olympics in Beijing grabbed all the headlines, there was another city in Asia that had an impressive LED display recently.Singapore's National Day, which celebrates the country's independence, features 5,000 performers on a mass tableau on a floating platform which was 120 metres wide by 83 metres deep, with a grandstand containing over 30,000 spectators...
Thursday, 21st August 2008 - full story
LED sign for Democratic National Convention
An LED sign will direct delegates at the 45th Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, from August 25th to 28th.It will mostly display closed-captioned news, announcements and directions for delegates at the convention, using a 60-minute loop containing the various types of content, as well as the capacity to interrupt scheduled playback to give live...
Thursday, 21st August 2008 - full story
American city debates LED signs
A city in Arkansas in the USA has held a public hearing to create a new ordinance to deal with the number of LED signs being put up.The Rogers planning commission had the hearing to gather input, with representatives from three sign companies speaking at it, reports the Benton County Daily Record.Highway commercial zoning areas and open display areas, like...
Wednesday, 20th August 2008 - full story
New LED display in Kuala Lumpur
Advertising specialist Danascreen has used an LED display for one of its latest stand-alone advertising billboards, located on Jalan Ampang, a major road in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.The LED display consists of five by five panels, each with a width of 6.1 metres and height of 4.57 metres, reports L&Si Online.Installed by a Malaysian systems integrator,...
Wednesday, 20th August 2008 - full story
Danish station gets LED display
A television station in Denmark has added an LED display to its broadcasts.TV2 is the second-highest profile terrestrial network in the country and is using the LED display to add a fresh dimension to its news programmes, reports L&Si Online.The display consists of eight by five LED panels and is used as both a background for news presenters and to show...
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 - full story
Dance like MJ with LED panels
Thanks to some LED panels, music fans can now light up the floor as they dance - just like Michael Jackson in the Billie Jean video.For part of the 2008 World Expo, interactive floor designer Sensacell has created a 250 square-foot floor installation using 1,000 LED panels.Parts of the floor respond to pressure, and track the pressure over time, meaning...
Friday, 15th August 2008 - full story
Electronic display screens to appear in Swansea
Several electronic display screens are to be installed around Swansea city centre.They will broadcast information ranging from weather forecasts and traffic information to appeals for missing children, reports the Swansea Evening Post.People will be able to download data like maps or discount vouchers too.The electronic display screens - to be...
Friday, 15th August 2008 - full story
LED display lights up Underglobe
An LED display recently lit up the Underglobe, a nightclub beneath the Globe Theatre in London.The light show provided support to DJs Sean Escoffery, Lemar and DJ Spoony who were playing at the event, reports Projection, Lights and Staging News.White Light supplied the LED display which was controlled by wireless DMX technology, and the company's lighting...
Friday, 15th August 2008 - full story
Projection displays LED market growth
Growth in the LED market will be 20 per cent or more for the next several years, according to an industry expert.The claim was made by Raja Parvez, chief executive of Rubicon Technology, who believes the growth will be because of the expanding number of applications for LEDs."High-performance LED applications, such as large area backlight units and solid...
Thursday, 14th August 2008 - full story
The Dubai Mall to be full of LED displays
A new shopping centre in Dubai is to be filled with LED displays.The Dubai Mall, which will be one of the largest in the world, is being developed by the Emaar Properties and the company claims the electronic displays will be the most sophisticated ever installed in a mall, reports SindhToday.net.Visitors will be taken on a visual journey as the LED...
Wednesday, 13th August 2008 - full story
Underground LED display
It seems places everywhere either have or want an LED display these days, and now there is even one underground.The location is a private tunnel near Tower Bridge in London where clients are driven to a taxi drop off area and car park, for access to the offices above, LSI Online news reports.As there was little decor in the area - basically a standard...
Tuesday, 12th August 2008 - full story
Tom Petty uses LED panels on tour
Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's 2008 North American summer tour has had an exciting support act, in the shape of some LED panels.The tour began at the end of May in Michigan and will finish on August 29th in Woodlands, Texas.Production and lighting designer for the tour, Jim Lenehan, created a design which uses three different resolutions of LED as well...
Friday, 8th August 2008 - full story
UFO LED display
An LED display in Poland was truly out of this world as it was designed to look like a flying saucer.The spectacle was part of the Gdansk Festival of Stars, where an Mi2 helicopter held up the seven-metre-wide structure, which was made from aluminium and LEDs.Suspended from eight points to a 50 metre strap line attached to the flying helicopter, the LED...
Thursday, 7th August 2008 - full story
LED panels help Foos rock UK
American rockers the Foo Fighters wowed huge crowds in the UK with the help of some LED panels.Some 230,000 fans were entertained in total, with two performances in the 86,000-capacity Wembley Stadium and a third show in the City of Manchester stadium.The Wembley shows featured over 5,000 LED panels which were split into three different screen...
Thursday, 7th August 2008 - full story
A vintage LED display
An interesting LED display has been created by Spanish lighting company Indal, by lighting the Castilla y Leon Pavillion at the Expo Zaragoza 2008 with 20,000 LEDs in 30,000 wine bottles.The LED display features among hundreds of pavilions displaying the themes of water and sustainable development, reports LEDs magazine.Using the bottle theme was actually...
Tuesday, 5th August 2008 - full story
LED display is the B'z
Japan's best-selling rock band B'z are using a giant 'magic carpet' LED display for their ACTION 2008 tour.Set designer Mark Fisher from Stufish has created stages for U2 and the Rolling Stones and now turns his hand to the Japanese megastars.The LED display is 20 metres wide and nine metres high, with a supporting frame made of carbon fibre.It...
Friday, 1st August 2008 - full story
American town wants LED signs
A group of business owners in Simpsonville, South Carolina, want the city council to relax its laws on LED signs for businesses.Simpsonville City Council currently bans their use, and people like Rick Leonardi want that to change, reports the Greenville News.Mr Leonardi is the president and CEO of Community 1 Federal Credit Union and argues that LED signs...
Friday, 1st August 2008 - full story
Another LED display for Times Square
A new LED display is being installed in Times Square in New York City for the Walgreen Company.Weighing 250,000 pounds, the LED sign will be programmed from the bottom to the top of the 341-foot building, which is famous worldwide for being the place where the New Year's Eve ball drops.The LED display will adorn the east, west and south sides of 1 Times...
Friday, 1st August 2008 - full story