Wavien, Inc. is demonstrating a new LED-Based Miniature Graphic Projector. Using its proprietary LED Recycling Technology, it produces over 1,000 lumens for indoor and outdoor applications.

Cleveland City Council has approved a controversial plan to buy millions of dollars worth of LED lights for the city. The city will ask for bids from companies to provide the lights, in exchange for locating its plant here, but not everyone is sold on this idea. The city's mayor, Frank Jackson, previously attempted to make a deal with a chinese company for the exclusive contract in exchange for opening a manufacturing plant. However, the city council required that there be a competitive bidding process for the contract.

Lighting Science Group’s Prolific DC LED street lights will soon light up Mexico City's newly constructed "Viaducto Bicentenario" elevated superhighway, which runs 23 kilometers from Lomas Verdes to Tepotzotlan. BHP Energy Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. is LSG's exclusive representative in Mexico. Gerstl Consultores selected BHP Energy Mexico to provide LED-based street lights to work with Gerstl Consultatores' solar power systems. LSG and BHP Energy Mexico are jointly announcing the nearly completed project.

Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) will install LED system signs and requests a new tender with a cost of JOD 100.000, to import new LED traffic lights, said by the Director of Traffic Operations Department, Eng. Khaled Haddadeen. He noted that GAM has already tested the traffic lights on Al Rabiah sign (the intersection of Mecca Street and Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas Street, and 60~70% of the Capital's traffic lights, about 125 light signs, have already been replaced.

ION™ Light Engines, a leading developer of high-performance LED-Array light engines, will exhibit its proprietary LED-Array component light engines at the upcoming LED Show at the Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, August 27th. The booth of ION is #22. Otherwise, ION’s president, Richard Farrell, is participating in the Speaker Conference Program and will present an overview of the LED-Array as a light source, highlighting its performance, versatility, scalability, and design applications.

Sharp Corporation is following up its LED lamps with another mainstay of residential lighting by introducing six models of industry-first LED ceiling lights into the Japanese market. Using Sharp’s proprietary light diffusion technology, these ceiling lights achieve a thin design that is 43 mm at the thickest part and just 8 mm at the thinnest.

LG Display of Korea will show off a 31-inch OLED TV at the IFA show. LGD said the TV is the biggest of its type. LGD has not unveiled other details on the set, including resolution, thickness or price. Also on display at the event will be LG's 72-inch 3D LED TV and what is being described as the thinnest LCD TV, at just about 0.28 inches.

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. (AnalogicTech™) has introduced its AAT1409/7/5 family of multi-string LED backlight drivers. Offering integrated boost converters and precision current sinks that can support up to 88 LEDs at 360mA total LED current, the AAT1409/7/5 drivers are among the most powerful in the marketplace.

American display manufacturer ViewSonic has released its newest display, the VX2250wm-LED, a 22-inch LED backlight display and announced that all of its PC displays will feature LED technology by early 2011. LCD monitors that use LED backlighting use about 40 percent less energy than displays that use CCFL. Because of the clear benefits of LED backlighting and lowering costs of production, more and more display manufacturers are turning to LED.

Retail Furniture Chain Replaces Showroom’s Hot Halogen Spotlights with Super Efficient, Cool Burning LED Lighting. Estimated Annual Energy and Maintenance Savings of $295,000 Produces $3.4 Million in Savings Over Lifespan of the MSi Lights.

I.    Brief Introduction Chinese LED company Jiangxi LatticeLighting Co., Ltd. has succeed in developing and manufacturing high power LED street light and tunnel light whose luminous efficiency reaches 108.6 lm/w. In fact, it is the reported commercial highest luminous efficiency LED Street light on the world market.

Gekko Technology will add the high-brightness LED light to its karess range of LED-based video and film lighting equipment at IBC2010 in Amsterdam, Sept. 10~14.

Northern Border In-Transit, LLC (NBIT) located in Detroit, Michigan, has selected Lumasmart to upgrade its exterior lighting with LED wallpacks. LumaSmart’s LED Wallpack, which draws 65 watts of electricity, will replace 400 watt High Intensity Discharge (HID) lights that currently draw 465 watts with ballasts factored in – an 85% savings in energy.

Located at the base of the Teton Mountains, the Jackson Hole Airport needed a superior lighting solution, which now has installed Albeo Technologies’s LED Lighting. Albeo's C-Series LED high bay used in Jackson Hole's Silver LEED rated airport. Albeo’s 177 Watt high-bay fixture with approximately 14,000 lumen output per fixture and a 4200K color temperature was used for the project. About 50,000 sq. ft. was added to the existing terminal and opened May of 2010.

Enfis Group plc has secured the contract to supply LED arrays and drivers for the NBA Stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China for this November’s Asian games. A stunning new lighting design for the exterior of the NBA stadium will be brought to life by over 900 high-power, smart LED light engines from Enfis.

Brand Neue Corp. has unveiled its new energy efficient, high lumen output 120 Watt high bay LED fixture. The company said they can replace conventional 400 Watt metal halide lighting fixtures and consume 70~80% less electricity.

Meyda Custom Lighting, a Meyda Tiffany company and a leading manufacturer and designer of custom lighting and décor, has launched the handsome Boberick wall sconce featuring state of the art LED technology. The Meyda Boberick LED Wall Sconce is 15 inches tall, 10.25 inches wide and four inches deep, other energy efficient lamping options are available. Otherwise, the fixture is UL listed for damp locations.

Streetlight Intelligence Inc. ("SLQ") is pleased to report that, the street lighting industry has recognized that LED luminaires can achieve greater energy efficiency when outfitted with adaptive lighting controls, such as SLQ's Lumen IQ™ Adaptive Street Light Management System.

The LED lighting revolution achieved another victory with the opening of an industrial plant lit exclusively with LEDs. Located in Etten Leur, The Netherlands, the full-service consumer products packaging plant is owned and operated by Kompak. All interior and exterior lighting fixtures feature Cree XLamp® LEDs and were developed and installed by LedNed, a Dutch LED lighting pioneer.

Spectacular dynamic outdoor lighting with OSRAM LED shows the Uruguay bridge in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina, in a completely new light. To turn the rather inconspicuous bridge into a city highlight, renowned Maestre Iluminación S.A. was assigned to add new “color” to it and implemented a spectacular dynamic lighting concept – using state-of-the-art LED floodlights and innovative electronic equipment from OSRAM.

Carmanah EverGEN 1710 solar LED lighting systems have been installed to provide illumination at a busy city bus stop near the LA City Department of Public Works Office Complex.

A 9,500 sq. m LED video screen, has been installed for 2010 World Expo Opening Ceremony, is from a chinese LED display company Retop LED Display Co. Ltd. Retop claims that the screen is now the largest LED screen in the world as well as the largest LED screen ever been used for the stage.

Samsung has announced three new 3D TVs in the US, one of which is the world’s largest 3D LED TV. The set uses LED technology, has a 65-inch screen, Precision Dimming technology, 240Hz refresh rate technology, dynamic 8,000,000:1 contrast ratio and WiFi capabilities. Samsung claims that it costs $6000 and will be available later in August this year.

Compared with traditional HID street lights, Lighting Science Group (LSG)'s high performance PROLIFIC series street lights, which are 50% more efficient, provide more uniform light distribution, increase light levels, now line the streets of Banyeres de Mariola Alicante, Spain. It is estimated that can save Banyeres de Mariola Alicante thousands of dollars in energy cost over the life of the fixtures. The main outstanding feature is that they are maintenance free.

ON Semiconductor designed a new line driver NCS5650, which was available in Power Line Carrier communications applications such as smart metering, industrial control and street lighting. The NCS5650 features high efficiency, Class AB, low distortion, drive power line mains and capable of accepting a signal from any power line carrier modem.

Nexxus Lighting launches its 2nd generation Array™ Lighting line of products.   The Gen2 R30 and R16 feature an expanded color temperature offering (adding 2700° Kelvin) and improved color rendering indexes exceeding 80 CRI.  Both of the new Gen2 product lines are UL listed, can be ordered in either architectural white or custom black housings and will feature the new Lighting Facts label on the packaging.  

Samsung Electronics America has expanded new 3D content, as 3D Blu-ray versions of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.'s global 3D blockbuster How to Train Your Dragon, IMAX's original productions Into the Deep and Galapagos, and Giant Screen Films' Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs for the home this fall.

Due to ongoing market share gains as well as rising demand, Lite-On Technology Corp. July consolidated revenue achieved to NT$10.54 billion, up 24% Y-o-Y, and cumulative sales from January through July reached NT$71.57 billion with growth of 41% Y-o-Y.

LUXEON® Rebel LEDs have been selected by Daimler AG for use in the Daytime Running Light function on several vehicle .Also Daimler intends to expand the use of LUXEON Rebel LEDs for the DRL function in other models.

GlacialTech Inc. introduces the novel GL-BR20D/30D/40D Series LED Bulbs that are 110/220VAC LED retrofits for conventional BR halogen bulbs. What makes GL-BR20D/30D/40D most unique is the TRIAC-dimmable function embodied in the bulbs for smoothly dimming down to complete darkness while the dimmer's conduction angle is being diminished towards nil.