Pikotaro pitches free LED upgrades Jiji — Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike — with a little help from comedian Pikotaro — is promoting energy savings by offering free upgrades to LED lights. Koike said the metropolitan government will allow citizens to exchange two or more ...
Organizers of an elaborate midwinter light display running until January along the Meguro River in downtown Tokyo, a popular cherry blossom viewing spot in spring, are going off the grid as a way to limit harm to the environment. Biodiesel fuel made from used ...
Apple Inc. has big plans to outfit its next iPhone with vibrant, energy-sipping organic LED displays, seeking to entice consumers with new technology that’s already been embraced by other high-end smartphone makers. The trouble is that the four main suppliers for such components won’t ...
Sharp Corp. is considering closing a light-emitting diode display plant in Hiroshima Prefecture next year as part of its restructuring efforts under Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. The electronics company may consolidate the production line at ...
Pick up a high-end smartphone these days and chances are it will have a crisp, energy-sipping organic LED display — unless it’s an iPhone. That will change next year, when Apple Inc. plans to adopt the technology for the next major upgrade to its ...
Apple Inc. is in negotiations with Sharp Corp. to secure organic LED displays for the iPhone maker’s next generation of devices, according to a person familiar with the matter. Any supply pact for organic light-emitting diode displays, would hinge on the Osaka-based firm’s output ...
The government plans to tighten its energy-efficiency standards for lamps to effectively ban production and imports of fluorescents and incandescents, sources said Thursday. The move is aimed at promoting the replacement of such lamps with light-emitting diode ones, in an effort to reduce carbon ...
Nobel loreate Shuji Nakamura said Thursday his U.S.-based company Soraa Inc. has opened an office in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, to market high-quality light-emitting diode lamps in Japan. “Japan boasts the world’s widest diffusion of LED lamps,” said Nakamura, one of three Japan-born scientists ...
Energy-saving LED traffic lights seemed like a cool way to cut back on electricity costs, but police are saying they might just be too cool — because they don’t melt snow. Light-emitting diodes account for around 45 percent of all stop-and-go signals in Japan ...
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering said Tuesday it has honored five scientists for their contribution to the development of light-emitting diodes, including the 2014 Nobel physics prize laureates Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura. The academy said they will give the five pioneer LED ...
The three Japan-born physicists awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics have been speaking in Stockholm about their work and how they succeeded in developing the blue light-emitting diode, the breakthrough that led to the white LEDs now commonly used worldwide. They delivered lectures ...
Energy-saving LED lights — invented by the three Japan-born scientists who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday — reduce waste and may help bring lamps to people living far from any electricity grid. Isamu Akasaki, 85, from Meijo and Nagoya universities, ...
