Monday, April 25, 2011

Interior LED Lighting Panel

This is a colour porogammable Lighting Panel for interior uses. They are embedded with Thousand of RGB LED and a Light Control Computer.

Pebrfectly for uses in Hotel, home, Shops and or bars...

Available in Lane Crawford. Price!

HK Snob

Projection LED lighting at Pacific Place


The LED can changes colour it self to create a special colour scheme. The projector lighting is equipped with RGB LED. Well, Pacific Place is the major shopping centre at Central. The LED light is definite a tool for creating moody and cozy atmosphere..And a FOCUSED stage effect for oncoming visitors. A way to promote images and hi tech gadget for the products in Promotion. We will have more and more LED application will be appearing in Hong Kong.
HK Snob

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Citistore goes Green LED lighting

A new face to see customer, the recent renovated Citistore is enriched with touch of green on using of LED lighting.
The whole roof, lighting, side lights beam lights are all made of LED… in Luxeons K2 types. And roof lighting effect is much better than it was using CFLs. It changes colours continuously. Perfectly match the name of the Department store (Thousand Colours) in Chinese.
I do think most of the customers do not aware they have changing use of LED… only LED sensitive guy Like I…
But one things is that they have a few draw backs
Since the roof height is not that high, some of the sport light is appearing right on top of you head and the light is so much focused, you will be feelling disturbed and feeling uneasy. That is the interior design issue.. A proper LED application has to go with some reflector such as to dilute the light intensity…
Another aspect is that the main space is using cold white LED and some of the clothes boutique is using warm white and it seems obvious in the two areas. There is no transition between cold white to warm white., so you feel the lighting is not unique in the whole floor space.
Besides, I think their approach is right as they will save up a lot of electricity in the coming 5 years…that can be a payback for those Expensive LED lamps they used.
I speculate more and more new established building and ne renovated department store and restaurant will go for LED…in Hong Kong.



HK Snob

Thursday, April 21, 2011

LED Globe of Grand Lisboa Casino Macao

This is my 2nd time to visit Macao in the past 5 years, I fond that the Grand Lisboa hotel is so beautiful and Sure that billions of dollars was spent on this building.,
The new Grand Lisboa Hotel was connected with a foot bridge to the old Lisboa Hotel
Which Stanley Ho opened in 1971. The New Grand Lisboa was a design of International architects and interior designers leaded by Khuan Chew who also was the designer for Buri Al Arabs and Four Seasons hotel of Hong Kong.
The property is shaped like a giant lotus flower and opened in 2007 just before Chinese New Year; with 240 gaming tables, 480 slots, and six restaurants.
We could see this new Landmark of Macao with a breathtaking light show from the world’s largest integrated LED screen installed on the Grand Lisboa’s exterior, Ho has clearly upped the ante on his competitors. The LED globe consists of 1.2 millions LED. And 580,000 Swarovski Crystals, and 5,400 pieces of 24-Kt gold plated glasses.
The RGB LED flashed and becoming the local most favourite and glorious Light show from 1800 to next morning, The Lotus shaped like leaves acts as a Knife on top of the entrances would capture everyone including the gamblers entering into the Entrance…
There you can enter and can not come out with the money from the gambler table.. A traditional Fung Shui… On each of the major concourse, you can see water spring that would like to Wash you clean, no one should be able to come out with the money form the Casino. this is only my personal Observations…
As I do no gambles, that mean I am the only Winner in Lisboa casino…
HK Snob

Friday, April 15, 2011

History of the LED

Since 1907, the phenomenon of electroluminescence was discovered by the British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs. During 1927, the first infrared LED has been reported and distributed in Russian, German and British scientific journals by a Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev. In 1962, the first practical visible-spectrum Red LED was developed by Nick Holonyak Jr., at General Electric Company. Holonyak becomes the "father of the LED". During 1972, his student, M. George Craford, invented the first yellow LED and improved the brightness of red and red-orange LEDs. Thanks for Monsanto Company, the first organization to mass-produce visible LEDs by using gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) in 1968; Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced the first LEDs alphanumeric display into their HP’s early handheld calculation in 1970s. Blue LED New Era of Blue LED with Shuji Nakamura, a Tokushima University graduated on Chemistry, worked in the Nichia Company which was a very small in supply fluorescent material to the TV manufacturing in 1960s. Nakamura San has invented the first high brightness GaN-based blue LED, together with the phosphor coating for white LED lighting, and which went into production in 1993. Nakamura managed to develop a new method for mass production of GaN based blue LED. With Nakamura contribution, now everyone can buy a MOCVD system which works like you baking oven in your kitchen for blue LED wafer. But, of course, there are only a few chefs for Make Right recipe for good Blue LED in the world. Shuji Nakamura is now recognized as “guru of the Blue LED”. His researches have been international awards: the Harvey Prize from Israel’s Technion (2010); Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2008); Finland’s Millennium Technology Prize (2006); and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in the engineering segment (2004), previously conferred upon Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Nakamura has also received Japan’s Takeda Award, as well as an Innovation Award from UK magazine The Economist. Now you can see LED everywhere…Thanks to these gentlemen who has been contributed their researches on LED… One of the top 10 Inventions in 20 Century. Article was written by Ringo Tse and Edited by HK Snob

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Siemens plans Osram IPO

Siemens AG, the German industrial conglomerate, plans to publicly list its subsidiary Osram GmbH in the fall of 2011. Osram will become a publicly-listed lighting company with Siemens as a long-term anchor shareholder, with Wolfgang Dehen as its new CEO. As Osram GmbH prepares for its planned Initial Public Offering (IPO), Wolfgang Dehen will take over as the new president and CEO, with effect from April 1, 2011. Dehen succeeds Martin Goetzeler, who will assume the position of Chief Operating Officer. Osram, part of Siemens’ Industry sector, is the world’s second largest lighting manufacturer and had a turnover of EUR4.7 billion in the 2010 financial year after the largest Philips. The company has around 40,000 employees worldwide, supplying customers in 150 countries worldwide from its 46 production sites in 17 countries. “Osram has an outstanding position worldwide as Siemens’ lighting brand, and we intend to maintain our close ties to the future Osram AG as a long-term anchor shareholder,” said Siemens President and CEO Peter Löscher, adding that Siemens also wants to participate in future growth in the market for new lighting technologies. Osram GmbH has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG since 1978. Siemens described its Osram subsidiary as “a leader in all relevant stages of the lighting value chain, for conventional as well as new technologies,” adding that Osram generates 20 percent of its total revenue with LED-based products. Siemens puts the total market for components, luminaires and lighting solutions at roughly EUR45 billion, with luminaires and lighting systems account for over two-thirds of this market. Driven by LED- and OLED-based lighting, the total market is expected to grow to around EUR65 billion by 2016. Only last month Osram announced its plans to further expand by acquiring Siteco, which is active in the market for luminaires and lighting solutions. Osram has been one of the technology leaders in LED designs and Manufactures, many of their products are lighting up the street, roads, Tunnels, bridges and Cities all over the world. They have factory running in Penang from Wafer fab, sawing, whole end of line assembly down the process to moulding, sawing, test sort and packaging in Penang, using the state of art LED Manufacturing from Major LED Equipment Suppliers. Osram Penang has been running for LED since the time Siemens Litronics in 1987. Osram has their major R & D centres in both Regensburg Germany and Penang. HK Snob

LED Light Bulb Sales rises after 11 March Japan Quake incident

After Japan Quake on 11 March, there is some kind of basic conceptual changes in the use of higher efficient lighting solution. Thus will reduce the power consumption significantly, from consumer lighting products market response, since 11 March, the sales of LED light bulb increased tremendously. From LED industrialists, the LED Light bulbs Penetration rate would be increasing significantly in the years to come. HK Snob

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Texas Instruments to Acquire National Semiconductor

Combination to strengthen analog portfolio and customer support, Texas Instruments has signed a definitive agreement to purchase National Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. This merger will unite two industry leaders who have a common commitment to solving your analog needs. Both companies will operate independently pending close of the acquisition which is expected to take six to nine months. National's 12,000 products plus TI's 30,000 means more performance, power and packaging options when selecting the right ICs for your application. HK Snob