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Giz Explains: What's So Great About LED-Backlit LCDs 
Gizmodo | by matt buchanan | Wed, May 27
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LEDs (light emitting diodes) are different from say, an old school incandescent bulb, which heats up a filament to generate light, in that they're electroluminescent—electricity passes through a semiconductor and the movement of the electrons just lights it up. Instead of having one...
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Opinion: Hot Electric Metal Encased in a Sphere of Glass
Most of this does not concern me, or move me to object in any way to LED lightbulbs, as much as the thought of LED light itself, so alien, in my house. In wikipedia, we get a description, under the disadvantages of the problems of white LEDs that "spike at 460 nm and dip at 500 nm," causing objects...
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