The next time you look at the screen on your phone or the RGB on your keyboard, thank Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue LED, who made it all possible and should have received way more ...

The famed annual preseason Big Blue Madness celebration for the Kentucky men's and women's basketball teams will feature a unique twist this year. Kentucky announced on Wednesday that Big Blue Madness ...

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget just how much society relies on these underappreciated technological wonders. Yet, the history of the LED goes back further than ...

With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other colors joined the LED revolution, ...

Kentucky basketball is right around the corner. In just a couple of weeks, Big Blue Nation will get their first look at both the men's and women's basketball teams on October 11 for Big Blue Madness ...

The first official LED was created in 1927 by Russian inventor Oleg Losev, however, the discovery of electroluminescence was made two decades prior. British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs ...

Do LED lights cause cancer? Can they really reduce crime? One kid is so concerned about LED streetlights that he called Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago sixth-grader JJ Nnawuchi loves looking at the stars, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Chip-On-Board (COB) Technology solders three very fine LED chips—one red, one blue, and one green ...