nanotech lights

[Mr Putard]

Hello, I read this on http://www.smalltimes.com about the up and coming small technology..hehe

 

In Taunton, Kopin Corp. is now in its third generation of tiny technology products. The company, founded in the 1980s, brought out its first product for consumer applications in 1996: a 50-nanometer transistor that is used in one in four cellphones. It followed with flat-screen displays, the size of a fingernail, that are used in camcorders. And last year, Kopin introduced a new semiconductor chip, known as a light-emitting diode, that is the smaller than a grain of sand but can emit near blinding light with low amounts of power.

 

This type of lighting, known as solid state or digital lighting, could become a $50 billion worldwide market and cut global electricity consumption in half by 2025, according to the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association.

Edited June 11, 2003 by Mr Putard

[white_cluster]

Hey Putard,

 

I read about some NASA tests using LEDs to grow Spinach and other lagal plants. The LED's blew away HID lamps, but there was these flourescent lights that have a flat surface instead of a round surface area. So no light is wasted. Anyway's they we're better than the LED's at growing. Maybe when LED's reach the size of a cucumber instead the size of a grain of sand they will be useful to growers. But by then we will all own acres of greenhouses and not need to worry.