Yellow Fades: Corazon Aquino Dies from Cancer

The month of August started with a mourning Filipino nation as former president María Corazón "Cory" Cojuangco Aquino (1933-2009) died this morning at 3:18am, the first of August. She succumbed to cancer as she suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest at the Makati Medical Center.She was 76.The 11th President of the Philippines and wife of the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, shall always be

HigH Power LED Chip Development

The Above table is measured with a driving current of 350mA. The latest announcement from Cree is 161 Lm/watt which is the most powerful LED so far.

Once if we can achieve 200Lm/Watt, that will be the time for replacement incandescent light bulb by all LEDs.

Widget Team visit Symbian Forum

On Wednesday evening me (Wojtek) and Maciek (Widget Project leader) boarded a plane to LHR and on the following morning we had the opportunity to meet the Samsung Mobile Innovator Symbian platfrom team. As the result of this short trip we finally meet in person our colleagues and discussed wide range of issues including current status of widget-related projects and (what is more important) shared our widget related ideas and experiences. First few minutes chatting with Andrew gave us a strong impression we all share the same vision and all of us are aware of the widget ecosystem importance for shape of mobile communication in near future.

In some aspects our teams do similar work and it will be really beneficial for us (in the Widget development team) to learn from the Symbian guys knowledge and expertise. We hope we can share our technical skills in area of widget development in exchange. In addition this is the opportunity for us to extend numbers of channels for support and contribution to widget developers community. Keep eye on news at Samsung Mobile Innovator website as the results of our work will be going live soon...

PS. Thanks guys, it was pleasure to meet you!

Comparison of Different type of Back Lit unit

As we know that there is hit for LED TV, though there are different ways for the design for the back light unit, RGB direct back lit, White LED back Lit and White LED edge Lit. Samsung 9 series TV is employing Direct White LED back lit, whereas the other series 8, 7 and 6 series LED TV are all using edge type LED back lit.
As for LG, they have launched the Direct Back light LED LCD TV with thin profile. And they are the hot selling product now.

Sony and Sharp use RGB and RGBplus LED direct back light respectively.
They all have different design; complexity of the lighting control, and number of LED, cost of construction is so much different.

Attached table illustrate the different pros and cons of these different design, I do not yet have the solid data on how to calculate the Dynamic Contrast, as far as I Can tell there is not much difference from human eye to detect the contrast of 100,000:1 and 1,000,000:1 as there may have an insignificant light intensity different comparing between white and absolute darkness.

So far by right the RGB backlit is best in contrast, and picture quality, as they can be tuned up for better crimson RED if we want to, whereas the white direct back lit may not be able to change the degree of hue of the backlight. Since they are using RBG, they colour temperature can be changed by means of the computerized control.

However the RBG control circuitry is much more complex, and the circuitry, cost and power consumption is much higher.

If there is no price concern, why not buy a RGB LED back lit TV, if you are price conscious but do want to have reasonable good quality LCD TV, get a Samsung 8 Series.
If there is no concern on The Picture quality at all! Well, use your CRT TV …that may be good enough already.

Feverip

LED BLU LCD TV shipment 2009-2011

From the above chart. there are certain interesting data on the LCD TV.

Feom the market that we can see, the majority is still edge type for his simpler design, lower cost for less LEDs to be used and its optimized performance. Samsung is the key player at this Edge lit design.

Samsung is the No.1 Seller in LCD TV.
He is good at Edge Lit TV which is optimized for best performance, cost and probably maintenance performance over the years.

LG is coming up with Direct back lit TV and that will be 2nd hit for best seller… after Samsung Promotion campaign has come to an end by Beginning of July.

Sony and Sharp has their own RBG Direct back lit TV up to 65” that are the beautiful mammoth in your house if your wife allows.

And sooner, Hitachi, Philips, Vizio, Chinese Skyworth and Tsinghua Tongfang and Taiwan TV maker will catch up with lot of LED Backlit TV shipment.

From the shipment, we can see that the LED TV will be ten times more in 2010 than we have in 2009., The number of LED will vary from 400 for edge type back lit to 3,360 pieces or more for a Direct back lit unit. The ASP of the LED will drop about 12% a year.

The bigger the screen size, more the LED on the back lit panel. However when the efficacy is LED is getting higher and higher, the number of LED can be reduced. And I am sure that the Current CCFL TV will be replaced more by LED as for better quality, as a sales gimmick and lower in power consumption.

The penetration rate can to 10% a year, current the LED BLU TV is just 2% of the total LCD TV and reaching 3% by end of 2009. By 2010 the penetration rate will move up to 8% and by 2011 18%, and 2013 about 28%.

That will be Billions dollar business for the LED makers, LED assembly Houses.

Digtial Manila's 2009 Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs

Digtial Manila's 2009 Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs are... (drumroll...)In alphabetical order..Adaphobichttp://www.adaphobic.com/Who could resist Adaphobic?Cebu Bloggershttp://www.cebubloggers.com/A group blog by Cebu bloggers. With a Cebuano's zest, this site and their group is truly an emerging force in the blogosphere.Good Times Manilahttp://goodtimesmanila.com/Good Times Manila is one of

Ryan's Music Reviews: 07/09

My summer music project is on hiatus. Permanent hiatus. Cancelled, more like.

I'm still listening to a decent (for me) amount of new music, but it's not exclusively stuff that's in the original list. Sometimes I like a particular band and decide to check out more of their stuff, sometimes I get turned on to another band.

So rather than constrain myself to certain albums, I'm just going to listen to whatever the heck I want and then share it with you every five albums in mind.

In that spirit, here we go!

Kensington Heights - Constantines
The Constantines are an indie rock/pseudo-pop outfit out of Toronto. You may have heard of them, as I believe they are one of the more mainstream indie bands in the country. At any rate, I definitely recognized 'New King' and perhaps 'Hateful Song' as songs that I think I'd heard before, even though I went into the album believing myself unfamiliar with the band. All in all, it was about what I expected - but I expected good things, so the lack of disappointment was in itself a positive sign. Catchy tunes, quite accessible, and all around fun. Nothing particularly awesome, but nothing offensive either.
Grade: B+
Recommended Tracks: Shower of Stars; New King; Do What You Can Do

Return To The Sea - Islands
This one's a different story. After being told by a number of people over a period of at least four years that they like the Islands, that I would probably like the Islands, my expectations were very high. I tried to keep them realistic, and I think I did, but this album didn't come anywhere close to meeting them. It's not that it's bad per se, it's just...not good. Aside from a couple of tracks, it's not all that catchy or memorable, the songwriting isn't particularly astounding...I just don't see why they are/were such a big deal. It's definitely not that they're too out there (see below)...I dunno. I've listened to it a few times now, and this album just doesn't do it for me.
Grade: C
Recommended Tracks: Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby; Rough Gem; If

Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
Listening to this album was what made me realize just how much my music tastes had changed. A year ago, if you'd have told classic-rock-and-New-Pornographers me that I'd like this sort of thing, I'd have said that future-me deserved a punch in the throat. Maybe I still do. Animal Collective are...out there. Their music is 'produced' (code for 'digitally enhanced') to the point where I have absolutely zero interest in ever seeing them live, but I can see why they're gaining as much popularity (although not mainstream) as they are. There is an odd catchiness to the music, and I suspect certain substances might enhance one's enjoyment even further.
Grade: A-
Recommended Tracks: My Girls; Summertime Clothes; Bluish

Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer
I like Destroyer. They're good for when I'm looking for something a little more low-key, a little more jazzy, but still undeniably indie. Dan Bejar is very good at writing that sort of thing, and I much prefer him in Destroyer to any of his other projects. Rubies is an album of firsts - '3000 Flowers' was the first Destroyer song I ever heard, and while it gave me an extremely distorted impression of the band, it remains my favourite - and this is the first Destroyer album I've listened to all the way through. The opening track is nine minutes of Bejar insanity, and it gets slightly calmer from then on out. Only real drawback is that I need to be in a certain mood to enjoy it.
Grade: A-
Recommended Tracks: Rubies; Painter In Your Pocket; 3000 Flowers

III - Billy Talent
And now we come to the 'holy crap Ryan's talking about something popular!' portion of this post. (Teaser of the next installment: I bought the new Our Lady Peace CD today.) I've never been a huge fan of Billy Talent, but I had a ten-week love affair with the song 'Surrender' when it became a hit two summers ago, and have a slight like for 'Devil In A Midnight Mass', 'This Suffering', and maybe a couple of others. Billy Talent's third offering is...well, I know some reviews have called the group out for losing quality at the expense of sounding more commercial, but I don't think that's quite right. It's just...'watered-down' is the best way I can describe it. Like somebody gave them Prozac. It's still a long way from being bad, certainly, it's solid pop punk. It's just not on the level of the first two albums in my opinion.
Grade: B
Recommended Tracks: Rusted From The Rain; Tears Into Wine; Sudden Movements

And a note...
...on a couple of the bands I mentioned last time.

The Gaslight Anthem, who I gave a great score and tremendous praise. I still consider this my top album of the year, and one of my all-time top ten, but I want to dial back the rhetoric a bit. It's not 'everybody should listen to this album'. It's 'everybody who likes classic rock, at least a little bit, should listen to this album'. It's Bruce Springsteen/Tom Petty-style rock that's just a little too hard for you to be comfortable defining it as 'singer-songwriter'. It would not sound out of place on a classic rock radio station - but unlike a lot of current rock, it won't sound dated by next year. From what I've seen of magazines and Twitter, they're on the cusp of hitting it big - so when that happens, I'll be here to say I told you so.

And Sunset Rubdown, who got more middle-of-the-road marks. I'm giving them a retroactive bump up for Shut Up I Am Dreaming, which I'm currently feeling like I'll never get tired of listening to. Even though that album doesn't contain either of my favourite songs of theirs ('Paper Lace', probably their most accessible tune, and 'The Men Are Called Horsemen There', possibly their least) it's a great mix of slightly-esoteric indie rock that will stick in your head longer than you think it deserves to.

Now it's time for a vacation. Let's see if I can come back in August and blog with a vengeance.

--Ryan

Yahoo Purple Hunt Finale Winners Announced!

The July 25 Yahoo Purple Hunt Finale activities covered Bonifacio High Street in purple! From balloons to shirts, from ice cream to hair dos, and from donuts to cars, everything was purple.Yahoo Purple Hunt Finale was the culminating day from all it's purple hunt related activities since it started back in May. For almost two months, consumers were teased to join the hunt for Purple prizes over

Great minds think alike

With Samsung IQ in its final weeks it looks like Samsung Mobile Widgets are on everybody’s minds at the moment.

We have just released the third in our Series of Technical Papers on Widgets. Following on from his great Case Studies on MyWeather and GyPSii, Richard Bloor’s latest paper is titled Creating Samsung Mobile Widgets for Samsung S60 devices and it really pulls the mobile widget story from Samsung together. As well as a great overview of the mobile widget world, Richard unpacks the technical specifications of Samsung’s implementation of mobile widgets on the Touch Wiz UI.

No sooner had we released our Technical paper, than we discover that Rafe Blandford at All About Symbian has been doing some investigations of his own into Samsung Mobile Widgets (he uses the term “TouchWiz widget” which is the same thing). He also provides a great working example with a nifty Samsung Mobile Widget that opens a link to the All About Symbian website. Well worth a look if you wanted to make your own shortcut links, but weren’t sure how. Rafe also offers to put any widgets you produce for the i8910 HD up on the All About Symbian Website – yet another channel open for widget developers to share their handiwork with the world.

All up, if you have skills in HTML, JavaScript and CSS, (and as Rafe suggests a bit of imagination) now is a good time to be developing for mobile. Plus with Samsung IQ £15k could be yours. Remember entries close Friday 14 August 2009.

LED Market Continues to Grow

2009 LED Market Size is expected at $6.9 billion

LED Market Grows to $14 Billion in size by 2013

-Large-sized LCD at No.1 market share followed by Handheld-use at No.2 market share
-LED Market is expected to grow from $5 billion in 2007 to $14 billion by 2013
-LED Market for Large-sized LCD is expected to sharply grow showing 135% CAGR in terms of revenue from 2007 to 2013.

Blog Action Day for Real Change & SONA 2009

Today, July 26 is Blog Action Day for Real Change, not Charter Change. It symbolizes the Internet communities' aghast against efforts to change the constitution to favor certain groups or prolong someone's term of office through technical means by twisting the system itself.As one of the newest form of media, the Internet Media intends to say in solidarity that we don't want constitutional

A little New Clarification of Corporate Lingo

A DRUG-FREE WORK ENVIRONMENT- We booze it up at company parties.

ACTIVE SOCIALLY--Drinks a lot.

AGGRESSIVE--Obnoxious.

APPLY IN PERSON-- If you’re old, fat or ugly like I, you’ll be told the position has been filled.

AVERAGE EMPLOYEE-- in the list of next retrenchment programme

CAREER MINDED--Back Stabber

CAREER-MINDED--2nd interpretation, female Applicants must be childless (and remain that way).

CAREFUL THINKER--Never make a decision

CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE--We don’t pay enough to expect that

COLLEGE DEGREE PREFERRED-- Unless you wasted those four years studying something useless like philosophy, English Literature or religion.

COMPETITIVE SALARY-- We remain competitive by paying 30% less than our competitors.

DUTIES WILL VARY-- Anyone in the office can boss you around.

EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD JUDGMENT--Luck.

EXCEPTIONALLY WELL QUALIFIED-- Made no major blunders yet.

FAMILY IS ACTIVE SOCIALLY--Spouse drinks, too.

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS-- Spends most of the time on phone chatting.

GREAT PRESENTATION SKILLS-- Able to BS..

HARD WORKING--must be dumb.

INDEPENDENT WORKER--Nobody knows what he/she does.

JOIN OUR DYNAMIC TEAM-- We all listen to nutty motivational tapes.

JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY-- We have no time to train you; you’ll have to introduce yourself to your coworkers.

KEEN SENSE OF HUMOUR--Knows a lot of dirty jokes.

LOYAL--Can't get a better job elsewhere.

METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL--A nit picker

MUST BE DEADLINE ORIENTED-- You’ll be six months behind schedule on your first day.

MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL--We have no quality control.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE--We’ve filled the job; our call for resumes is just a legal formality.

OUTGOING PERSONALITY -Always meeting people at Starbucks or Hotel Cafe'.

QUICK THINKING--Offers plausible excuses.

SEEKING ENTHUSIASTIC, FUN, HARD WORKING, PEOPLE--who still live
with their parents and won’t mind our internship-level salaries.

SMOKE FREE OFFICE-- Smoking Car park area, smoking lobby, restroom…

SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED-- Some time each night and some time each weekend.

USES LOGIC ON DIFFICULT JOBS--Gets someone else to do it.

WORK IS FIRST PRIORITY--Too ugly to get a date.

Knowing that we do not wish to see this happening in our company, but probably some of them does exist in some companies! Who knows? Hope we do not treat this too seriously!

Nursing Licensure Examination (NLE) 2009 Results Released

The latest Nursing Licensure Examination (NLE) results were released just tonight by the Professional Regulation Commission. 32,617 examinees passed the Nursing Licensure Exam.A Cebuano got the highest exam results from a school in Bogo, Cebu. Golda Manto Yap from the Felipe R. Verallo Memorial Foundation is now the accollade of her town.On a personal level, our relatives are very happy and proud

"Cory Aquino Died" Rumor Dismissed

Text messages (SMS) has spread Friday morning that "Cory is dead." Pertaining to the former Philippine president Corazon Aquino who has been fighting colon cancer since early last year.One Liner Update: Ausgust 01, 2009 - Cory Aquino Dies at 76Although the disease is now on its higher stages, supporters of the Aquino family continues to pray for her recovery, or at the very least, for lesser

HP LED Japan Strategies in Light Event 16-17 Sept.

LED Japan/Strategies in Light event being held September 16-17, 2009 in Yokohama, Japan.
Event Guide AD Reservation Deadline is July 30.

If you are a company that is a:
· LED manufacturer
· Supplier and distributor of equipment and materials to the LED industry
· LED system manufacturer
· Manufacturer of test & measurement equipment
· Manufacturer of design and production tools for LEDs
· Lighting product manufacturer

The Show will be Involving APPLICATIONS which include:
· General lighting
· Illumination
· Mobile applications
· Signs and signals
· Displays
· Automotive lighting

You should not miss the registration with dead line 30 July 2009!

Fires and earthquakes and such, oh my!

Hey, Kelowna. You're on fire.

Literally.

If you haven't been following the news this week, forest fires have been creeping a little too close for comfort to the town of Kelowna, in BC's interior near the Albertan border. If this all sounds a little familiar, it's because the exact same thing happened six years ago (in fact, that picture is from 2003).

And in 2003, I was there.

(It's actually kind of ironic. When people from this area think of 'summer 2003' and 'natural disaster', their minds go straight to the major blackout. I was in Vancouver during that event, but made it to Kelowna for the fires.)

So I've been following this with a little more interest than the average Ontarian. When I see the pictures taken of downtown Kelowna, near the lake, where you can see the fire burning in the skies unsettlingly close - that's exactly how I remember it.

Background: my family went out west for two weeks. Vancouver to Calgary is an awfully long drive to make in one day, so the city of Kelowna was settled as a sort of mid-point. (Kamloops serves a similar function a little further north, for those wanting to get to Edmonton.) We planned on a one-night layover in Kelowna.

On our way through the interior, signs alerted us that the fire had caused a section of the highway to be closed. The detour was quite out of our way (I want to say it added another two hours to our drive), and we contemplated driving to Kamloops instead, but ultimately we ended up in Kelowna. As I mentioned above, the ash from the fires could be seen from downtown, and the air did have a bit of a smoky quality to it. With absolutely nothing else to do, we spent a bit of time in a Chapters, went for dinner, and then went to our hotel.

Then we listened to the radio (in retrospect, the music station was doing an excellent job of rising to the occasion and acting as the local live news service). Streets near the edge of the city were being evacuated, and there was a chance that the entire city could be under an evacuation order before the night was up.

Instead, the winds changed direction, the danger (to Kelowna) passed, and we went to bed.

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In other geographical/meteorological news, New Zealand is a foot closer to Australia than it was a month ago.

An earthquake under New Zealand last week has pushed the island about 30cm closer to Australia - a process that normally takes hundreds of years.

Continental drift fascinates me - on the rare occasions I remember it - and this is probably one of the best examples we'll have in my lifetime. Over time (an estimated 250 million years), California will break off from North America and become an island unto itself, while North America also heads westward and crashes into Asia.

But for the time being, it's just a little bit easier to swim from the kiwis to the koalas.

--Ryan

Sharp First Series of LED Back lit LCD TV

Sharp's AQUOS LED System incorporates its UltraBrilliant LED backlight technology that illuminates the TV to high brightness and contrast levels.

Sharp is ultilizing Direct Back lit Leeds which are evenly installed and able to disperse behind the diffuser, providing more uniform colors and brightness across the entire screen.

New Features :
Full high-definition 1080p X-Gen LCD panel
10-bit processing pixel control to minimize light leakage for extremely deep black levels,
The X-Gen panel has a wider aperture that lets in more light to pass through for higher peak brightness.
Spectral Contrast Engine for a high Dynamic Contrast Ratio of more than 2,000,000:1.
Fine Motion Enhanced technology for 120-Hz Frame Rate Conversion
Fast pixel response time of 4ms.
176-degree viewing angle
AQUOS Net service for an instant access to customized Web-based content and real-time customer support.

Several available models:
52-inch (LC-52LE700UN),
46-inch (LC-46LE700UN),
40-inch (LC-40E700UN,
and smallest 32-inch (LC-32LE700UN)

Sharp also unveiled two giant 65-inch LC-65E77UM and the LC-60E77UN, the first 60-inch LCD TV on the market.

Both TVs will be available in September and I have seen huge promotion sign Board in Penang for 60” Version.

Beginning of July, I have seen an actual display unit 65” model LC-65RX1H for Hong Kong with the following specification which is lower than what they offer for USA.

Double the frame rate from 50Hz to 100 Hz (120 Hz for USA),

Sharp's fine motion Advanced technology reduces blurring from the moving images.

Emphasis that the TV is produced at Kameyama Plant Japan with highest quality assurance standards.

Dynamic Contrast Ratio is 15,000:1

Using RGB Plus direct back light system adds crimson to the three conventional colour wavelengths of Red, Green, and Blue, delivering an even wider and deeper colour spectrum for more natural, exquisite pictures.

The TVwas displayed at entrance of Broadway Electronics at Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, but the price tag told me that I have to stay a bit far away...it was selling at HKD144,000.00!

Feverip

Urban Time Discount Coupons : Print & Present

Newly opened Urban Time in SM North Annex is giving away discount vouchers to Digital Manila readers! Urban Time is the distributor of Lulu Castagnette, Cherie Paris and MC Marie Claire watches .Just print and present this coupon at the Urban Time store located at the 3rd floor of SM Annex to avail of this special treat. (Click on the image to enlarge; then print.)The discount voucher is for

Longest Total Solar Eclipse Tomorrow - July 22

From dawn until sunset tomorrow, Wednesday - July 22, the new moon will cover the Sun from the earth producing a total solar eclipse.The forthcoming total solar eclipse will be the longest of the 21st century.However, the total solar eclipse can only be completely seen from a small part of the Earth. It will be readily visible from Eastern China, India and different cities including Surat,

Harry Potter 6 Broke New Philippine Cinema Record

Harry Potter 6 - the Half-Blood Prince, despite getting mixed reviews from fans and movie-goers, created a new Philippine cinema record.Posting a grand P104.77-million four-day opening weekend (July 16-19) in 310 movie screens nationwide, Harry Potter 6 is now the all-time biggest four-day movie opening weekend in Philippine history (surpassing 2007’s “Transformers’ at P103.87-million) as

LED Back Lit TV and Demand for Package LED

It has been a bore consumer Electronics market in the past three years! Did you see anything new or evolutional in these past three years? Except the best hand set gadget for electronics freak, Iphone that really created a hit since the first launch June 28 2007.


New concept and probably the best product in the last decade. Close follower Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson had similar function as iPhone with touch screen and huger display. A bit disappointed to see there is no more new breakthrough on the 3G iPhone!

Hope Steve Job could recover and would bring us some more new inspiration to this electronics world of consumer products, which might trigger the whole semiconductor cycle to turn faster!

Hi End Audio products is running in extreme, such as a gold/silver power cable is selling with $3,000-$5,000, an special liquid Nitrogen chilled IEC power socket is selling at $60.00! A Value of $150 Silver Foil capacitor as one of the 50 components inside A power amplifier! A Vacuum tube mono block power amplifier is selling at $50,000 with less than 30 major components. Where as a China White Box maker can have complete DTS 5.1 system with price tag of $100.00!

Super Audio CD? MP3? There seems only lesser people is able tell the difference of hi frequency timbre on a $300 MP3 or $30 MP3 or the built in MP3 sound quality in a hand set. IPod is rather an image of American cult, beside a tool of music player.

Sony just celebrated its 30th anniversary of Walkman since the launch on 1 July 1979. At that time the mammoth Walkman was selling at $300.00 and they have produced over 40 millions so far. “Walkman” has became a Name in Handy music player and it has entered the Dictionary. Now they have to announce a launch a new generation Walkman type of MP3 player let se how it can beat the IPod!

DC that is already flooding the market with that we can get now is 12MP, 3.8" display at a price of $250.00. Three is a slim chance for a new technology that is readily help is us to have an improvement on the picture equality. Blue Ray, with of 2X better quality than the high definition DVD picture. In order to reproduce the razor edge sharpness picture formed by those millions colors video signal, that might need a super LED Back Light display panel,


What is the next vibrant product in the consumer’s electronics? That is one of the drives of people who eager to invest and produce the best Panel Display of LCD using this LED technology. General speaking, because our Human eye can distinguish much effective than our human ear can tell for the music details. There is no one to argue the ambiguity in distinguishing the difference of the display quality once you compare tgen side to side.

Samsung belief
Speed is the key to all perishable commodities from sashimi to mobile phones. Even expensive fish becomes cheap in a day or two. For both sashimi shop and digital industry, inventory is detrimental and speed is everything.
Jong-Yong Yun, CEO of Samsung Electronics

TV Gadget
LED back lit as good contract, 1D or 2D local dimming, Power saving 40%, slim display and no mercury in the back light unit.

TV makers believe that TV is more than a necessity and people are looking new technology, cost performance and a slim sleek design for Asian residence is so limited in space at living, dinning and sleeping rooms where they used to place a TV. Power saving is a long term return for electric fee and more comfortable to play when there is less CO2 emission being generated because of your TV.

Domestic illuminations accounts 22%, Air Con for 34%, fridge for 14%, and TV take as much as 7.3% of total monthly electricity bill amount. As For TV which consumes as much 7.3% of electricity, we could not underestimate the Green TV would have create much less CO2 emission every night you are watching your big screen TV! As there are billions of this picture box ( now I should say picture panel) being switched on every moment.

LCD TV shipment
The Q109 World TV shipment drop 6% comparing with last quarter Q308. Revenue of Q109 World TV slashes 12%. LCD TV shipment comparing with last quarter rose 27% but the sales Revenues of LCD TV slash for the first time.

The major reason behind is the World Economy Tsunami causes the supplier to reduce the ASP in order to stimulant the consumers

Electronic Times analyses amongst all sizes of TV, 32” is the most popular model partly due the consumer spending limitation and the price drop is most significant for this size 32” TV drop 38% in price whereas 40/42 “only drops trivial 0.5%! Comparing with last Quarter Q408, Samsung has been sales No. 1 for Consecutive 13 Quarters. With amazing market share 22% and LGI is the 2nd runner up of market share of 13% which had surpassed Sony by 2%.

LG Electronics (LG) unveiled two new ultra-slim "full LED" LCD TVs in Seoul 15 July. The new 55-inch screens –- models 55LH95 and 55LH93 respectively –- lead the market in terms of picture quality, design and convenience. LG's ambitious new product line offers a brighter and clearer screen than competing products thanks to backlighting that 3360 LEDs- seven times more than existing edge-lit LED TVs. LG's full LED LCD models also features a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio through enhanced dimming technology that divides the screen into 240 blocks with 14 Leeds being placed in one block. And with a refresh rate of 240 Hz, these TVs maintain a vibrant, smooth image even during fastest motion action picture scenes. Third is Sony, then Sharp and Panasonic as the 3rd, 4th and 5th position. From DisplayResearch, World shipment of Q1 was 4,330 Million sets. Drop 25% as Q4 08. Drop 6% as comparing with Q108. Total revenues are USD22.1B! Slash 12%.

LCD TV shipment 2,670 M sets that is 61.6% of the total TV sets produced. This is the only one growth.

Market Size of LED back light TV
Forecasting that the global LED LCD TV market will grow to 30 million units by next year and to 68 million by 2011, up from 3.1 million this year. LG is aiming to become the world's second biggest seller of LCD TVs and predicts that the proportion of LCD TVs that feature LED technology will also grow from 2.6 percent this year to 20 percent next year and to 40 percent by 2011.


Market Size 3.1 M sets 2009, 30M sets in 2010, and 68 M sets in 2011. There will be huge LED package LED demand for filling up the back lit panel of the LCD TV. It may need 2.5M LED per hour for all these LCD TV markers. by time Q409.

Price Erosion, Subcon and new comers
Obviously The Taiwan LCD people are not doing anything with this piece of fat meat in on the hot Tapanyaki plate. They will do their best to beat down the price, with volume production in such as scale that may draw Korean giant to further either outsource their LED to other people, and at same time to maintain certain level of Production for maintaining certain safety stock, base on a healthy and conservative plan, They should outsource 40% of their LED into at least three difference sources in at different locations to avoid the political instability that will incur shipment problem and to facilitate a better logistic control.


In coming 3-6 months, Korean, Taiwan or China, OEM will come up with a series of LED TV product in order to keep their LED TV cost down and to maintain good profit margin. Definitely there will be similar or much cheaper TV coming for the World factory from those big names, Skyworth TCL Changhong and Shinco…(Skyworth is China largest TV maker last year his product of CRT TV dropped 30% to 3.75M sets and LCD TV rose 100% to 2.47M sets! ) using low cost LED side lit back light unit, we can anticipate that there will be at last 5 new comers to participate with faster speed than those big players currently shipping product with a higher price tag.


China TV maker would try to pump out some non LED back lit TVs with labeled LED TV with some of the low end product line selling at lower cost. They might not have that kind of reliability and quality as the Korean and Japanese dominant players at first but within 1-2 years they will catch up and occupying bigger portion for the Low Mid end market which is usually 80% of the whole. Let’s watch out.

Vintage over night

“On one new year’s eve, I was celebrating at a restaurant with a bunch of friends and I decided to order a glass of red wine to accompany the countdown.

I randomly chose one and it went well to welcome in the new Year.
We stayed until after midnight and I ordered another glass f same red wine.

When it came to time to leave. I got my bill and noticed my second glass of the same wine cost more, I consulted the waiter, who told me that after midnight, the wine was technically one year older and had now become a “decade-old wine” – as compared to the original, unimpressive nine-year vintage- which, according to restaurant policy, costs more.

I’m happy to report that restaurant is closed now!”

Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Ending

If you are a Harry Potter fan and you didn't like my title, let's see how you'd react to my friend Spanky's "Harry Potter and the Half-Asleep Audience". :)Nonetheless, I didn't fall asleep. I watched and listened so intently as not to skip an important word or phrase uttered by the characters in the story. I was then so thrilled to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because I think the

Philips New Acquisition

Royal Philips Electronics has acquired yet another company, Manchester, N.H.-based Teletrol Systems specializes in the design and manufacture of building lighting control centers with over 10,000 building sites around the world. The acquisition was announced on 16 July. Financial terms were not disclosed.

17 July 2009

LED 3D TV

NewSight, a Japanese unit of NewSight Corp of the US, developed a 3D display using LEDs as pixels for the first time in the world.

The 3D effect is caused by an array of parallax LEDs turned at a pitch of 6mm, thereby working in the same way as pixels on LCD displays.

Featuring a 180-inch screen with a width of 3.84m, the "3D LED Video Wall" is one of the world's largest 3D displays. The company said that it is possible to combine four displays and make a 360-inch 3D display.

The new LED display realized 3D representation with the parallax barrier method as the company's LCD 3D displays. The LEDs are made in China. Arranged at a pitch of 6mm, they work like the pixels of an LCD panel. The display is best watched from about 5m away, but the optimal distance can be adjusted. The warranty period of the LED is 20,000 hours.

Pricing is subject to individual order requirement and Quantity.

Man's Wisdom

Q - What is the Difference Between Mother & Wife ?
A - One Woman Brings you into this world crying... and the other ensures you continue to do so.


Wife : Do you want dinner?
Husband : Sure, what are my choices?
Wife : Yes and no.


Wife: Honey..... What are you Looking for ?
Husband : Nothing.
Wife : Nothing...?? You've been reading our marriage certificate for an hour ?
Husband : I was just looking for the expiry date.


Son: Mom, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.
Mom: Well, you have done the right thing.
Son: But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.


A newly married man asked his wife, "Would you have married me if my father hadn't left me a fortune?"
"Honey," the woman replied sweetly, "I'd have married you no matter who left you a fortune”


Girl: When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden. Boy: It's very kind of you, darling, But I don't have any worries or troubles.
Girl: Well that's because we aren't married yet.

Wife: You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why?
Husband: When there is a problem, no matter how impossible, I look at your picture and the problem would disappear immediatlely.
Wife: You see, how miraculous and powerful I am for you?
Husband: Yes, I see your picture and say to myself, "What other problem can there be greater than this?"


Father to son after exam: "let me see your school report "
Son: "My friend just borrowed it. He wants to scare his parents."

Interviewer to Millionaire: To whom do you owe your success as a millionaire?"
Millionaire: "I owe everything to my wife."
Interviewer: "Wow, she must be some woman. What were you before you married her?" Millionaire: " Billionaire"


Girl to her boyfriend: One kiss and I'll be yours forever.
The guy replies: Thanks for the warning.


A wife asked her husband: "What do you like most in me my pretty face or my sexy body?"
He looked at her from head to toe and replied: "I like your sense of humor”

Bike Firefly LED

Available at http://gadget.brando.com.hk/prod with only USD8.00!

You could catch all eyes at night on your Bike Firefly LEDs

SM Megamall Wi-Fi Service Redeems Itself

Just last July 5, SM Megamall invited us to beta test their new free Wi-Fi service for its launch and the connection occasionally failed during that 2-hr period of 3pm to 5pm.They mentioned though that the roll-out of the technology was still only at 80%. We tested it then at the lobby area of Building A.This time around, it was SM Foodcourt's turn to have us test the same service on the

Remote Multi Colour LED lamp

Use in different environment, such as stage, ceiling, store or living room. With a Remote Control for 16 Colurs, Brightness control, and 4 light patterns of FLASH, STROBE, FADE and SMOOTH.

Each USD$48.00

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The replacement brooooooooadcast

Allow me to indulge my inner journalism junkie for a moment.

As reported by the CBC (appropriately enough), the Mothercorp is shuffling many of its correspondents.

Evan Solomon is moving to Ottawa, where he will replace Don Newman as the host of Politics (CBC's special episode of Politics dedicated to Don's retirement can be seen at the 'Friday' link on this page, and contains well-wishes from a who's who of CBC and political personalities. And Randy Bachman.) Terry Milewski is also coming to our nation's capital as Chief Political Correspondent - replacing Keith Boag, who moves to Los Angeles. Susan Bonner leaves Ottawa for Washington, while Paul Hunter - who has been back and forth between those two cities - is now permanently south of the border. Finally, David Common leaves CBC's Paris bureau for New York City.

Howard Bernstein, a former producer at the CBC and elsewhere, has started a blog where he gives frequent updates and analysis of behind-the-scenes goings-on in CBC headquarters.

One of his more interesting posts details a planned change for The National come September - an end to the long-form documentaries that often take up the latter half of one day's newscast (or more). Without cutting the show back to 30 minutes, it's obvious that CBC would need to do something to fill all that time - and evidently they've decided more American news is the ticket forward.

CBC now has three reporters in Washington (Hunter, Bonner, and Neil Macdonald), two in New York (Common and Alison Smith), and Boag in LA. Six reporters in the United States is unheard of for a Canadian network (CTV has three, two of them in Washington). To be honest, I find this a very weird decision - eliminate the one thing you're doing that nobody else is, and replace it with more coverage of stories that viewers could get on the American networks? Hopefully there's more to it (and even more hopefully it's NOT trying to penetrate the American market somehow).

Moving back to the original point, the appointments of Milewski and Solomon both look great on paper. Solomon is considered a rising star at CBC, and won't stand for the normal spin the parties will try to trot out on his show, while Milewski is excellent at being a thorn in the side of governments in the worst way possible - doing so on important matters, rather than the scandal du jour.

But put these moves in the context of everything else, and I'm far less enthused. CBC has gutted their Ottawa bureau to just Milewski and Rosemary Barton - nowhere near enough resources for Milewski to be his most effective, because he'll have to be jumping from story to story every day, rather than able to stay on the trail of whatever he finds most relevant. I'm all for reducing Ottawa coverage, and I'm all for Terry Milewski, but the two don't reconcile - you need another reporter there to let Milewski do what he does best.

Also, David Common moving stateside is worrying because no replacement was named - is the Radio-Canada guy going to start doing double duty the way Frederic Zalac does?

Finally, poor Keith Boag - going from being the top political reporter to Hollywood news? What bet did he lose?

I'm really hoping that this isn't the end of the moves, and there's more shoes to drop. I'm hoping Ottawa gets another reporter or two, somebody with good credentials is posted to Paris, and the sudden influx of American correspondents to more than regurgiate CNN's top stories.

Warren Kinsella, in his own brief thoughts on this matter, wonders what CTV will do to respond. I don't see them making any changes - Craig Oliver and Robert Fife will never leave Ottawa, Graham Richardson's still pretty new in town, and Rosemary Thompson hasn't been back for very long. That just leaves Roger Smith, and he frankly does too good a job to be given anything other than a promotion. Plus there's the small matter of me not being able to name a single CTV reporter who would be both a plausible and a welcome addition to their Ottawa bureau (maybe Scott Laurie, at a stretch). CTV has their own holes to fill - nobody in the India/Afghanistan bureau, still needing either a Halifax bureau chief, somebody else in Montreal, or both - but I'm not sure we'll be seeing any changes to their political coverage.

--Ryan

Don't stop 'til you get enough

(I've neglected this little blog for far too long. Here, then, are some jumbled thoughts on Michael Jackson.)I never liked Michael Jackson.

I don't mean that in a vicious way, it's not "I'm glad that little SOB's looking at time in the slammer and now he's dead even better". It's just that I never got into his music. As much music as I download, I've never had a copy of a single Michael Jackson song - by himself, with his siblings, with Paul McCartney, whatever.

By the time I came into the world, Michael had already hit his peak - my earliest memories of him are as a former star, somebody who was big. That, combined with the above indifference to his music, is probably why I don't have the reaction to his death that some people do. There is definitely an age gap - it *seems* like everybody is mourning this death because people from different age groups are - but really, the majority of people in their mid-twenties or younger don't care in the slightest.

My first reaction when I heard the news? "Michael Jackson, there's somebody who hasn't entered into my cognitive thinking for quite a while." It's a little hard for me to believe that somebody who could cause such a stunning lack of emotional outpouring from me is quite clearly missed by so many - eight new tributes on newsstands tihs week, folks - yet that is clearly the case.

Michael Jackson, to me, was somebody who used to be famous for good reasons and was now famous for being eccentric. Like a bigger-than-life version of Bobby Fischer. Or Anna Nicole Smith, only minus the "no good reason for the fame" bit. He was less a musician than a generic pop culture celebrity.

Not quite sure where I'm going with this - and I feel like I'm repeating myself a bit - so I'll move to another train of thought. I've heard quite a few people express the opinion that Michael Jackson is the new Kurt Cobain - somebody we at best tolerated in life, but loved in death.

Others have argued fairly effectively on both sides of this issue, and I'll let them due so rather than interject myself into the debate - although I will point out that I view the tribute show, with its appearances by Magic Johnson, Brooke Shields and the like, as more of a 1980s reunion than anything - but I do have one question. When did it become common knowledge that Kurt Cobain fits into this category? Most of the people I'm hearing this from are too young - as am I - to know what public opinion was of Cobain before his death from firsthand experience, and it's not an opinion I'd ever seen in the mainstream before this hit.

One last note - I don't know what Joe Jackson was like in the past, but I have trouble believing that anybody could be as shamelessly exploitative as he has been in the past few weeks. Using a media interview to promote his record label, and suggesting that Michael's kids should tour as the 'Jackson 3'? As much as I couldn't care less who ends up 'winning' most public relations battles in the realm of pop culture, Joe Jackson is one person who should not be allowed to have legal possession of children.

--Ryan

IMAX SM North Edsa Opens Today

IMAX SM North Edsa opens today as the second IMAX-equipped theater in the Philippines. Powered by digital projection and theater systems, the proprietary technology is said to be better than the conventional digital systems.Today, July 16, the IMAX Theatre shows Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with exclusive IMAX 3D scenes.For movie inquiries & reservation of tickets, you may call 929-

'Kada Kwento: Your Unusual Common BarKada Kwento (Stories)

'Kada Kwento is the story of a barkada. The daily chats, the common pats. It's a story of friendship. 'Kada Kwento is a series of short films produced by Pelicola.tv Internet Television and Globe. It is a collection of stories about seven individuals that make up a barkada.In each film, we see interesting turns of friendship that each one shares. The whole series revolves around unique

One Month left to Win BIG with Widgets, Three BIG reasons to try...

We talk a lot about widgets in my team, and to be honest everyone has a slightly different view on how widgets will affect the mobile development industry. With only 31 DAYS LEFT until Samsung IQ closes, I want to share what I think the BIG deal is about widgets.

1. Widgets = Rapid development time
All widgets share the same basic technologies - HTML, JavaScript, and cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This makes them great vehicles for leveraging existing web skills to bring web developers to mobile, leveraging the time-to-market advantage of web scripting technologies.
The fact mobile widgets are developed utilizing practically the same skills as those needed to build a conventional website makes Samsung IQ the perfect opportunity for a web-developer looking to diversify into the Mobile space.

2. Widgets = X-platform
With widgets you have a real cross-platform advantage. Although packaging requirements differ slightly between different widget flavours, and access to native service APIs can differ significantly between different widget platforms, the basic principle is the same: create an application, that utilizes a WRT engine without the cumbersome browser chrome.

For entering Samsung IQ, this means you may already have a functioning widget, that with a few minor adjustments to your code and configuration would make a perfect Samsung Mobile Widget, making easily accessible from the Touch Wiz UI widget tray.

3. Widgets = Business opportunity
Looking around at other mobile developer blogs and communities it’s clear our industry is captivated by these little zipped up packages of code, images and script. This is occurring at all levels: device manufacturer, network operator and Mobile OS platform.

Enter Samsung IQ and you could win not only cash, but also the opportunity to distribute your work via Samsung’s More Widgets on-device service. What a terrific way to build your brand. Better yet, our competition is completely non-exclusive so there is nothing to stop you going out and taking advantage of the other promotions and opportunities out there – and they are out there.

Thank you to everybody who has contacted us, seeking further information and advice on how to get started.

Based on you questions and feedback, we have been continually updating our Knowledge Base SIQ Resources Page. If you haven’t visited this page recently, it’s well worth another look as we’ve added some further information and tried to clarify some points that were generating queries. If you have any further questions, do let us know. We’ll be here to assist right until the competition closes on Friday 14 August 2009.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Main Poster and Featurette (Trailer)

Barely three days to go and the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince would be shown worldwide as millions of fans await the movie. It would be remembered that the movie was intentionally delayed by about half a year from the original date.And as the day comes nearer, Warner Bros. Pictures reveals the main poster of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Dark Secrets Revealed).Along with

2nd Generation Philips Master LED

Incandescent lamps convert only the 5% of the electricity into actual light, with most of the remaining 95% being turned into heat energy. This inefficient use of energy led Philips call for incandescent lamps to be phased out. Enforced by European Legislation, this outdated lighting technology will no longer be available for consumers to buy from stores within the European Union from September 2009 onwards.

LED lamps save more than 80% energy consumption, yet they produce the same light level experience as incandescent lamps. The lifetime of LED lamps is more than 40 times longer too, making them environmentally the best alternative to incandescent lamps.

The second generation of MASTER LED will be available from April onwards in the professional distribution channel. The new range will build on the successful introduction, in 2008, of Philips’ MASTER LED range, consisting of 7 pieces of 1W Rebel LED lamp each as a quality alternative to incandescent light bulbs up to 40W and 35W halogen spotlights.

Moreover Philips provides the new Ledino and DayWave lighting system for architectural interier illumination. The Ledion has a sleek new wave design.

The Attached Pictures from top: the DayWave, Master LED and Ledino.

TriNoma Opens its Digital 3D Cinema

TriNoma recently opened its Digital 3D Cinema through the newly upgraded Cinema 4. It targets to deliver a three-dimensional awesome experience for the movie goers. Indeed, after trying it out last week with a special screening of Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the characters were almost alive with vivid visuals and clear surround sound. I missed Ice Age 2 but it was great seeing Manny, Sid,

LED and Cancer treatment

LED technology has provided medicine with a new tool capable of delivering light deep into tissues of the body. Certain wavelengths which are found to be biologically optimal for cancer treatment and wound healing. This LED technology has already flown on Space Shuttle missions, and shows promise for wound healing applications of benefit to Space Station astronauts.

Following radiotherapy for breast cancer, women exposed to pulses of low-energy non-thermal light-emitting diode photomodulation had significantly less dermatitis than controls.
LED photomodulation is widely used in cosmetic dermatology for improving skin healing and appearance. The apparatus consists of light-emitting diodes in a specific array that emit a non-thermal, low energy light at a pulsating frequency.

The pulses stimulate at the cellular level skins cells such as fibroblasts to repair themselves to build up the collagen.The other thing is that they interfere with the inflammatory pathways that break down the skin and cause erythema.

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a cancer treatment modality that recently has been applied as adjuvant therapy for brain tumors. PDT consists of intravenously injecting a photosensitizer, which preferentially accumulates in tumor cells, into a patient and then activating the photosensitizer, with a LED light source.


The development of more effective light sources for PDT of brain tumors has been facilitated by applications of space light-emitting diode array technology: thus permitting deeper tumor penetration of light and use of better photosensitizers. Lutetium Texaphyrin (Lutex) is a new, second generation photosensitizer that can potentially improve PDT for brain tumors. Lutex has a major absorption peak at 730nm, which gives it two distinct advantages. Longer wavelengths of light penetrate brain tissue easily so that larger tumors could be treated, and second, the major absorption peak means that more of the drug is activated upon exposure to light.

Our experiments suggest potential for using LED light therapy at 680, 730, and 880 nm simultaneously, plus hyperbaric oxygen therapy, both alone and in combination, to accelerate the healing process in Space Station missions, where prolonged exposure to microgravity may otherwise retard healing

LED Cities

LED Streetlight in Ann Arbor Mich.

Studies suggest that a complete conversion to the lights could decrease carbon dioxide emissions from electric power use for lighting by up to 50 percent in just over 20 years; in the United States, lighting accounts for about 6 percent of all energy use. A recent report by McKinsey & Company cited conversion to LED lighting as potentially the most cost effective approaches to tackling global warming using existing technology.

LED lighting was once relegated to digital display in laboratory, public ultilities office, Stock exchange display, basketball scoreboards, traffic lights. But as a result of rapid developments in the technology, it is now poised to become common on streets and in buildings, as well as in homes and offices. Some American cities, supported by LED companies promoted images with name of LED City including Ann Arbor, Mich., and Raleigh, N.C., are using the lights to illuminate streets and parking garages, and dozens more are exploring the technology.

There is a Website 18seconds.org is calculating and updating the number of purchased CFL light bulbs since 1 Jan 2007 in cities and states of USA. It said that it takes just 18 seconds to change an incandescent light bulb to CFL bulb as anintermediate transition for LED illumination.

From the data, Washington is the first Oregon the second and Wisconsin the third largest State as users for CFL.

LED is 2 times more efficient as compact fluorescent bulbs, currently the standard for greener lighting. Unlike compact fluorescents, LEDs turn on quickly and are compatible with dimmer switches. And while CFL contain mercury, which requires special disposal, LED bulbs contain no toxic elements, and last much 3 times longer.

Infrared Stealth Goggles

EyeClops Night Vision goggles (http://www.jakkspacific.com/) power actual infrared driven technology of 17 IR LEDs that shine a wide beam of infrared light up to 50 feet away in completely dark environments. Avalable at your local toy store USD80.00.

Powered by five AA batteries that last about three hours, the entire device straps onto your head with thick rubber straps. This could be great fun on Night camp, Halloween and some of your secret mission at night!

Happy Marriage

A couple was celebrating their Pearl wedding anniversary.

Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town, "What a peaceful and loving couple."

A local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage. "Well, it dates back to our honeymoon," explained the man.

"We visited the Grand Canyon and took a trip down to the bottom of the Canyon by pack mule. We hadn't gone too far when my wife's mule stumbled. My wife quietly said, 'That's once.'

We proceeded a little further and the mule stumbled again. Once more my wife quietly said, 'That's twice.'

We hadn't gone a half-mile when the mule stumbled the third time. My wife quietly took out a revolver from her purse and shot the mule dead!

I started an angry protest over her treatment of the mule, when she looked at me and quietly said, 'That's once.'

Then we lived happily ever after."

Oximetry Sensor

Masimo, the innovator and leader of motion and low perfusion tolerant pulse oximetry, Healthy term neonates were monitored with pulse oximetry immediately before, during, and after, circumcision procedures.

A pulse oximeter is a device intended for the non-invasive measurement of arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate. Oximeters are used medically by patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Since the general availability of pulse oximeters in the 1970's, many thousands of lives have been saved. Pulse oximeter has become a critical piece of instrument in healthcare industry.

The small, light weight Sensor was built with a couple of nanometer wave length sorted LED chips bonded on one side and receiver chips on the other. The measurement is taken with a few seconds. It is widely used in Hosiptals for detection of oxygen and CO level in blood. The reading is accurate, fast.

LED and Planting

LED lights are popular artificial lighting systems used in hydroponic or soilless gardening. Some of the advantage of these grow lights include better growth of plants, less heat production and low maintenance cost.

Nabesei Co Ltd, a company specializing in electronic parts, demonstrated plants grown under different LED lights took place from April 15 to 17, 2009, in Tokyo.

Plants of the same size were continuously irradiated with light from a lighting device equipped with 630nm red LEDs, a device with 430nm blue LEDs and a pink-colored LED light composed of half red LEDs and half blue LEDs.

After three weeks of irradiation, the growths of the plants were compared with one another. As a result, it was discovered that the pink LED light most effectively promotes the growth of plants, the company said.

Plant do not need all wavelengths in the visible light range for their growth, but they absorb light with certain wavelengths to grow. When they perform photosynthesis or come into bloom, red light around a wavelength of 660nm, which is the absorption peak for chlorophyll, promotes the growth.

Meanwhile, when the plants form flower buds, blue light around a wavelength of 450nm promotes the growth.

When comparing the plants under the three kinds of light, those under the red LED light grew slower than others and were smaller as a whole. The plants under the blue LED light had fewer leaves and were spindly on the whole. On the other hand, the plants under the pink LED light had larger leaves and had generally grown in a more balanced way.

So there is a lot of DOE (Design of Experiment) in order to find out which wavelength would be best for the growth of the plants.

LED does contribute in Gardening and planting industry!

LED Shower Light

Colour Changing LEDs Shower light head.

Temperature sensitive light goes from green when the water is cold, to blue, purple, then red when the water is hot.

The device takes no battery or electricity what so ever and is powered by the water running through it. Easy to install in 2 minutes

No need for the regular light.

Feature

1) LED light

2) Environmental friendly

3) Self powered by water running through it
4) Chrome coated ABS showerhead
5) Water saving

6) Save power

Price Euro 49.95

http://www.megagadgets.nl/

Some Health Tips

Growing older can be wonderful if we make healthy changes to our diet and lifestyle.
Eating well and living an active life can make you work or play longer than people much younger than you are. Looking beautiful at your age will also be an added bonus.

These are few important steps to help us through our journey in life.

Think healthy weight
Set a balanced diet
Drink plenty of water
Take care of your bones
Cut back on salt
Avoid indigestion
Keep you Iron and Vitamin C connected
Finding the right supplements
Fill up on Antioxidant
Never too late to exercise
Smile all the time
Help people when ever you can
Love your family members, spouse colleagues, friends
Believing in God
Sleep earlier, wake up earlier, get out from work earlier and go "happy hour"!

A request

Wanted: two tickets to Sunset Rubdown, Friday night at Lee's Palace. Willing to pay above face value. If interested, e-mail rdflanagan[at]gmail[dot]com.

--Ryan

The First Philippine Web Design Conference Coming this July 10: [Form, Function, Class]

form function() & .class: the first Philippine Web Design Conference is the first and only event in Asia for web designers by web designers. Initiated by the newly-formed Philippine Web Designers Organization, it will be held on July 10, 2009 at the Asian Institute of Management, Makati City,The conference provides a venue for discussion and learning of world-class standards, latest trends, and

Cree CEO Chuck Swoboda Participated in Presidential Roundtable on American Innovation and Clean Energy Technology

Chuck Swoboda and other CEOs representing American companies at the forefront of innovation were invited to meet with President Obama on 2 July to discuss American innovation in areas such as clean energy and the potential benefits to the U.S. These 8 Companies is Applied Material, Cree, Dow Corning, FPL Group, Hara, Hycrete, Positive Energy and Standard Renewable Energy.

President Obama commented on his meeting: “I just held a meeting with the CEOs of some of the most innovative energy companies in America to talk about growth and progress of a sector that represents a big piece of America's economic future.”

He continued, “These are folks whose companies are helping to lead the transformation towards a clean energy future. Even as we face tough economic times, even as we continue to lose jobs, the CEOs here told me that they're looking to hire new people, in some cases to double or even triple in size over the next few years. They are making money and they are helping their customers save money on the energy front.”

Asked about the message to small businesses, President Obama remarked, “Small businesses should probably contact some of these CEOs because it turns out they can save small businesses and large businesses alike up to 20 or 30 percent on their energy usage.”

Cree, being supported by Obama government would be in a very favourable situation in further expanding his LED chips development and packaging assembly vertical integration in China.
The Tallest one stood at the last row is Chuck.

Liveblog: Canada vs. El Salvador

8:16 - Here we are, boys and girls! Kickoff's just after 9:00, so I'll do my best to make it back here in time for that - might be a few minutes late. But there *will* be liveblogging!

8:53 - And we're back! With time to spare! Sportsnet is currently showing a special on the top fights in UFC history (a multi-part special)...#32 is Randy Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga. If that's a metaphor for tonight, hopefully we're not Gonzaga. And #31 is Quinton Jackson vs. Dan Henderson.

8:56 - Maybe I'm cynical, but based on the recap at the end, this seems heavily biased towards fights from the last few years (i.e. people who are still good enough that UFC can promote around them). The thing's been around since 1993, you know. BRING ON THE SOCCER!

8:58 - Or not. First let's have one of those "sports highlights set to a popular song" videos Sportsnet loves so much. The song in this case is "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked", which shows better taste than usual on their part.

9:01 - Your announcers for this game are Gerry Dobson and Craig Forrest. Craig is widely known as one of the best soccer players Canada has ever produced, and also as the goalie for Ipswich when they lost to Manchester United 9-0. This isn't a contradiction, apparently.

9:04 - For anyone who thinks El Salvador is a minor nation which doesn't deserve this much attention, you may be right - they're ranked 90th in the world. Unfortunately, Canada is 92nd.

9:06 - Josh Simpson replaces Marcel de Jong in the midfield. De Jong wasn't spectacular against Jamaica, but he was far from our worst player. Expect the pace of these updates to slow a bit now, as soccer 'action' doesn't exactly lend itself to liveblogging.

9:08 - I think I hear people singing along to O Canada. Crowd singing is awesome, but only when you're sure it's actually happening.

9:12 - Sportsnet is using 'SLV' as the acronym for our Latin opposition. For a moment I thought Slovenia had somehow earned themselves a spot in the North American soccer championships.

9:17 - Dobson's not even one of the top five soccer play-by-play guys in the country, but he's far and away the best Sportsnet's got. At least they're not forcing Rob Faulds on us.

9:18 - And I must say, he's doing a much better job tonight than in the opener. He's got all the players down by name, whereas the first half of the Jamaica game he had no clue who had the ball.

9:22 - Today's Toronto Sun gave Ali Gerba the nickname 'Ali G'. It's simple, but I approve. I wonder if our Ali G can tell the difference between WMDs and BLTs.

9:27 - I hear trumpets from the crowd. Trumpets make everything better. (This is the subject of a blog post I've been wanting to make for a while.)

9:29 - Trumpet! Trumpet! Toot! Toot!

9:30 - El Salvador with a free kick near the box, but they miss the net. Lucky us.

9:35 - It should be mentioned that Mssrs. Dobson and Forrest are calling this game off a monitor from Sportsnet's Toronto studio. Against Jamaica, Dobson was constantly hinting at his (without realizing it) with comments like "you see there", "there's Player X", and other things that made it obvious he wasn't at the stadium. Not the case tonight, which is making it more tolerable.

9:41 - Right as I start typing about how Kevin McKenna is possibly the most underrated player on this Canadian squad, the commentators start talking about the same thing. De Guzman, Gerba, and ATIBA all have more flash, but McKenna's defence is what's really setting the others up. He's like a Sylvain Lefebvre who can't skate.

9:43 - DA ALI G SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

9:47 - Ali G is hurt on the ground. In a few months he'll come back as part of the Kazakh team.

9:52 - Ryan's random soccer-related memory: Going into work at the grocery store at noon on a Sunday, and being greeted by "yo, you guys watch the game?" After we all looked at each other in confusion - Sunday morning not being prime time for sports - "what game?" "Yo, Serbia/Belgium soccer guy!".

9:55 - Canada with lots of pressure and a couple of corners, but it looks like it'll be 1-0 when the halftime whistle goes.

9:57 - Yep, halftime. Thoughts to come.

10:05 - When the Canadian roster was announced for this tournament, I was fearing the worst. Many of our best players weren't selected - Dwayne De Rosario thanks to a backroom deal with Toronto FC, Jonathan de Guzman because he's pretending to be Dutch, March Bircham for who knows what reason - and I was worried that Will Johnson and friends wouldn't be up to the task. So far, I've been pleasantly surprised - they're gelling as a squad, and able to live up to Canada's bizarrely high standard of winning at the Gold Cup.

10:07 - Why does the 'sys rq' button on my laptop keyboard actually have the function you'd expect of an Insert key? And why do I have no Insert key?

10:11 - The old lady in the Bank of Montreal commercial creeps me out. I think that's the intent.

10:15 - Canada with a great chance but Patrice Bernier somehow missed the net. That could come back to haunt us.

10:20 - If I've learned nothing else from Football Manager, I've learned that this is way too soon to be calling the result a foregone conclusion. Someone tell that to Gerry Dobson.

10:26 - I've invented the Gerry Dobson Drinking Game. Take one drink anytime Gerry mentions that Klukowski was born in Austria but raised in Oshawa, that Ali Gerba is headed to Toronto FC after the Gold Cup, that TFC is *also* in negotiations for Julian De Guzman, that Greg Sutton is currently unattached, or that Kevin McKenna is underrated. Let's see how drunk you get Friday night. Bonus round: ten drinks anytime the word 'Peschisolido' is uttered, properly or otherwise.

10:29 - Paul Stalteri picks up the first yellow card of the night. Still one of the better players we've got tonight.

10:34 - Now is when you can start talking about El Salvador badly needing a goal to stay alive.

10:38 - Canada is visibly having some trouble on the teamwork front - they're not working together as fluidly as they were earlier in the night. Announcers suggest that we need some substitutions, I'm inclined to agree.

10:43 - I just bothered to do the math - if we win this, the only way we don't make the playoffs is if we lost to Costa Rica *and* El Salvador beats Jamaica. Then goal differentials and such come into play. But what are the odds of that?

10:46 - There's still time to go, but I won't be around for it. Sleep is beckoning, and I want to answer that call. I think the boys can hang on. This is one advantage to following Premiership/UEFA soccer - the games are all in the morning over here, you're falling asleep at the beginning.

--Ryan

A Liberated Man

A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed: 'Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through. So, please allow her body to switch with mine for a day Amen!'

God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man's wish. The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, Awakened the kids, Set out their school clothes, Fed them breakfast, Packed their lunches, Drove them to school, Came home and picked up the dry cleaning, Took it to the cleaners And stopped at the bank to make a deposit, Went grocery shopping, Then drove home to put away the groceries, Paid the bills and balanced the check book. He cleaned the cat's litter box and bathed the dog. Then, it was already 1P.M. And he hurried to make the beds, Do the laundry, vacuum, Dust, And sweep and mop the kitchen floor. Ran to the school to pick up the kids and got into an argument with them on the way home. Set out milk and cookies and got the kids organized to do their homework. Then, set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing. At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper.

After supper, He cleaned the kitchen, Ran the dishwasher, Folded laundry, Bathed the kids, And put them to bed. At 9 P.M .. He was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren't finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make love, which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning, he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said: - 'Lord, I don't know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife's being able to stay home all day. Please, oh! Oh! Please, let us trade back. Amen!'

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied: 'My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were.

You'll just have to wait nine months, though. You got pregnant last night.'



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Good Trade

Mary was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.

As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.

Resuming the journey, Mary tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Mary. 'What in bag?' asked the old woman.

Mary looked down at the brown bag and said, 'It's a bottle of wine. I got it for my husband.' The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: 'Good trade.....'

Bill Gates Rules

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one

Another perspective

Jack and Max are walking from religious service. Jack wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Max replies, "Why don't you ask the Priest?"

So Jack goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I smoke while I pray?”

The Priest replies, "No, my son, you may not! That's utter disrespect to our religion."

Jack goes back to his friend and tells him what the good Priest told him.

Max says, "I'm not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try."

And so Max goes up to the Priest and asks, "Father, may I pray while I smoke?”

To which the Priest eagerly replies, "By all means, my son. By all means.

You can always pray whenever you want to."

What's next?

If you asked me to name my favourite band, or movie, or book, or colour, or pretty much anything, I'd hem and haw before giving a cop-out answer. The only exceptions are for breakfast cereal (white frosted Mini-Wheats) and television (The West Wing, unless I was trying to relate to you at a more populist level, in which case probably The Office).

I can't say for a fact that The West Wing is the greatest show in television history. I can say for a fact that it is easily the best show I've seen, and easily my favourite. Aaron Sorkin's excellent dialogue, the amazing ability of the cast, and a subject that some find boring but I most definitely do not all combine to create a perfect storm of awesomeness.

A group of people have started watching The West Wing from the very beginning and giving their thoughts on it. This isn't the first website I've come across along these lines (that would be the aptly-named Blogging The West Wing, nor is it the best (also Blogging The West Wing), but it does have one significant advantage - it's just started, so it's still being updated, whereas BTWW dropped off after about a dozen episodes.

The reviews at the newer site are definitely a little light on the "review" and a little heavy on the "summary", but hopefully that will improve over time. I considered taking part in the experiment, but not having the time to give to this pursuit at the moment (more on that below) ultimately forced me to bow out.

However, they're starting with the first episode, so I will take this opportunity to mention why I think The West Wing has the best pilot episode of any television show, ever.

It does what any good drama pilot should do - introduce us to the show, introduce us to the main characters, give us a couple of plot lines that will last longer than the episode. It does all these without being obvious about what it is doing.

It has plenty of opportunities to show that this show will be funnier than your average TV drama - among them, Leo's call to the New York Times crossword editor, "The President, riding his bike while on vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop", and Toby using the word "flummox".

It shows just how perfect everybody is for their role - from Martin Sheen to John Spencer to Rob Lowe - and how willing they were to put egos aside to make a great show (apparently this was a big deal at the time).

And I firmly believe that there will never be a single character debut anywhere near as good as the first appearance of President Bartlet. You can see it in this clip (start around 3:10 if you're in a hurry, otherwise the whole thing's worth watching, as is the whole episode and, well, the whole series).

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"What's next?" is the closest thing The West Wing had to a catchphrase - it's what the President would ask whenever he was ready to move onto something else.

But what's next for this blog? I'll tell you.

As you can tell, I haven't exactly been able to keep up with the twice-a-week update schedule I was hoping for over the summer. Work and other extracurricular circumstances have left me with neither the time nor the motivation to update this more than every five days or so. That's not going to change.

That said, I am going to make a special appearance here in a couple of days. Hopefully.

You wouldn't know it from the lack of publicity around here, but the Gold Cup - that's the North American soccer championship, held every odd-numbered year - is taking place. Canada pulled off a minor upset in their opener, defeating the Jamaicans 1-0. Our next game is Tuesday night against El Salvador, and I'll be proving true the adage that "it's fun to liveblog anything" by liveblogging Canada vs. El Salvador. So check back here Tuesday night if you're interested in that.

--Ryan

Why is it so?

Why there is no Light Emitting Triodes?

Why the Black Box is not Black in Colour?

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?[

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Why A TRIAC also called Semiconductor?

Why do Chinese translation of "Bolt" and "Nut" has correlation of sexual organs?