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A Monster LED Array For Irresponsible Fun

Posted by timothy on from the want-for-house-and-car-and-bike-and-projector dept.

Tesladownunder writes "This huge LED is on steroids and then some. It is intended for use as a streetlight. It has a 7000 lumen output at 100W and will burn a hole in a CD case without focusing. And that's without the infrared that a halogen or discharge lamp has. Very efficient and low maintenance. Stronger than HID car headlights or a 500W halogen. Hit the site for lots of data and pics of it in action including burning and irresponsible bicycle luminosity. You'll want one to attach to your keyring, too."

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  1. Sharks by ikirudennis · · Score: 5, Funny

    with frickin' LED arrays?

    1. Re:Sharks by vlad30 · · Score: 5, Funny

      A pink or reddish tone

      Thats why its called the red light district?

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    2. Re:Sharks by Shark · · Score: 2, Funny

      Enough with the frickin' stuff already!

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    3. Re:Sharks by Dreadneck · · Score: 2, Funny

      So, when's the harvest? :)-~

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    4. Re:Sharks by mnemotronic · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...both high pressure sodium and low pressure sodium lamps(2 most common street lamps) have a more pleasant spectrum on the eyes

      Which is what makes them totally unacceptable in this here application buckaroo, which is about cooking someones eyeballs in situ. "Pleasing spectrums" is fer them artsy-fartsy, gayboy wanna-bees. Kill-o-lumens is fer manly men. Gimme an "oo-rah".

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    5. Re:Sharks by Zero_DgZ · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, but funky blue-spectrum LED lights will make your downtown area look like a cyberpunk novel cover, which is worth way more awesome points than 160 lumens per watt.

      Plus, if existing phosphor-on-blue-die LED's are any indication these will also make fluorescent objects in your downtown area light up like christmas trees.

    6. Re:Sharks by Rei · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's not the next step; the next step is transplanting outdoors so they can make use of that nice free light, The Sun. ;) Just this evening I finished setting up vine clips on hanging strings to support my climbing plants. I look forward to the airborne pumpkins and melons ;)

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  2. Re:So.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 20 feet tall people will just have to watch where they're walking.

  3. Another use by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Staring at one of these LEDs from close range will erase the ugliness of the linked site from your memory. Try it

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    1. Re:Another use by Shinmizu · · Score: 2, Funny

      How can somebody post a link to this?

      We're trying to slashdot it out of existence.

  4. Re:Is it just me... by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just you.

    I like side scrolling and searching for graphics.

    It's like a game!

  5. I RTFA.... by Narnie · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I think the pictures are interesting, the layout makes me wish I didn't read the fucking article.

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    1. Re:I RTFA.... by Eil · · Score: 4, Funny

      While I think the pictures are interesting, the layout makes me wish I didn't read the fucking article.

      I guess you could say he wasn't the brightest bulb in the bunch?

  6. Did they try to mess up firefox on purpose? by X-Power · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think it could have been worse than this even if they tried.

  7. That array is almost as bright... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as the site designer is dim.

  8. Re:Firefox unfriendly by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 4, Funny

    <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="black 0111, default">

    I forget the order of the screw flags on the content attribute. The first one is IE, of course. But are the next ones Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, Chrome, Safari?

  9. Re:Is it just me... by Firehed · · Score: 3, Funny

    So fucked up, in fact, that I couldn't even save it trying to hack the thing in Firebug. Or Safari's inspector. I mean... I've seen websites that fail outside of IE before, but never like this. It somehow even managed to override it's own inline styles for the table width - by several thousand pixels, no less.

    The one time I try to RTFA and this is what I get. I should have known better.

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  10. Warning by Virak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do not look into website with remaining eye.

  11. Re:Would it have killed them to learn HTML and CSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    NO WE DON'T!!!!

    seriously, like no way!

  12. Worst Web Design Ever by hdon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear God what is this person thinking? I have a fairly huge monitor and this page is still completely unviewable!

  13. Re:So.... by Deltaspectre · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried this experiment, but the flourescent lighting didn't even succeed in bleaching the color :(

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  14. Re:Is it just me... by twinchang · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wow, you "fix it quick"!

    I would just click "View->Page Style->No Style".

    This is how you fix it real quick:

    1. ctrl-A and cut the entire page out of Firefox. Paste it into Open Office.

    2. ctrl-A to select all text and change the text color to black.

    3. ctrl-A to select all text and go to the Table/Table Properties menu.

    4. On that menu, change the right boundary of the table to something that is not a mile off the right side of the page.

    You can fuckin' read it now.

  15. Re:So.... by DFJA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe just ensure they don't carry CD cases on top of their head...

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  16. OMG! This nerd actually has ... by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... He actually has a wife. Weirdo! Run for cover slashdotters!

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