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Pinwheel and old VCR used to make wind-powered LED

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by admin

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Now that Blu-ray has emerged as the lone HDM victor, that aging VCR is likely looking for a new home (if it wasn’t already). Thankfully, we’ve found the perfect excuse to rip it wide open versus hauling it off to the local thrift store. In one of the more elaborate how-to guides that we’ve seen, Charles Palen explains how to create a wind-powered LED by using scrap parts within a VCR, one your youngster’s pinwheels and a varied array of power tools, wiring and calm nerves. Notably, an unwanted CD-ROM drive can be used if you’re dead set on watching those Disney classics on VHS one last time, but regardless of which apparatus you destroy, be sure and hit the read link for the step-by-step.

source:engadget

Technovision 205-Inch Luxio LED HDTV

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by admin

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There is a new type of television that has recently come up and it has led to the birth of the world’s largest television screen to date. Technovision has unveiled an incredible 205-inch television that is based on LED Technology. Dubbed as the Luxio, the Italian company came up with this giant LED television screen that has so far surpassed Sharp’s 108-inch LCD TV.

The Technovision Luxio 205 inch LED TV is not an LCD type of TV. It is made up of an intricate array of LED’s that work together to make up a huge single image on the screen. The Luxio is not only huge in terms of screen size, it also has features that equal or even surpass other current televisions. Thanks to LED technology, the Luxio provides better brightness quality with images coming our sharper despite its huge size.

This technology also allows the company to come out with a TV screen with this incredible dimensions. There is no longer a need to assemble an array of several TV sets and making them work up a single image, therefore giving you a huge TV display. What’s more, the Luxio is also HD ready so picture quality is also at par with current television formats.