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LEDs may be great for spotlights, Christmas decorations and sheep adornment, but they do have their drawbacks. Laserlike LEDs are always on high beam (thus those blinding headlights). They light but they don’t illuminate. Organic LEDs (OLEDs), on the other hand, do. Already a TV-lover’s fantasy, OLEDs are flat light sources, only as thick as their substrates.
However, as films replace thicker substrates like glass, OLEDs could become even thinner, more versatile and a whole lot cheaper, according to Optik & Photonik. Scientific American speculates that it will become possible to create not only illuminated ceiling panels out of flexible OLEDs, but energy-efficient, translucent windows.
While I wouldn’t mind if my cubicle window gave off a soft glow as the sun set, any OLED technology is, as of now, well outside of most consumers’ budgets.
Co-blogger Candace Keener has written much of late about sheep, as well as a potential affinity for shepherding. Well, shepherding may have just become even more appealing with its debut into the arenas of both environmental and performance art.
Today, Inhabitat ran a post on Baaa-Studs, a Welsh group that blanketed the backs of hundreds of sheep in LED lights and coordinated their movements. Judging from the group’s video, they used sheepdogs to herd the flock into formation and remote controls to manage the light displays (as well as plenty of editing and perhaps some digital alterations).
While shepherding itself sounds awfully green and pastoral, the introduction of energy-efficient lights throws it into a decidedly environmental realm. LED lights use considerably less energy than traditional bulbs. They also emit very little heat — good when you’re coating the backs of already wooly sheep.
Across the country, incandescent traffic lights are being replaced with LED arrays. Check out this podcast from HowStuffWorks to learn more about the advantages of LED traffic lights.
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