All posts tagged: lights

Govee Outdoor Chromatic String Lights Review

Govee Outdoor Chromatic String Lights Review

Published by skeptic

Govee today introduced its newest lighting product, Matter-enabled string lights with chromatic bulbs that have multiple LEDs inside. The Govee Chromatic String Lights feature large, pill-shaped bulbs that can display multiple colors at once, creating unique lighting effects. Priced starting at $170, the Chromatic String Lights come in a 32.8-foot strand with 10 bulbs or a 65.6-foot strand with 20 bulbs. I was able to test out the lights ahead of launch, and I haven’t seen string lights quite like them before. Govee put 55 RGB LEDs inside each bulb, and the LEDs can be controlled semi-individually, with combinations of colors, shadows, and patterns able to make visually attractive scenes. The lights support millions of colors, and three layered cycling effects can be added per bulb. Patterns control how the lights change, and there are a lot of different options to choose from. Govee has tons of pre-installed scenes to select from, but there are also options to create your own with custom colors and patterns, or use AI to come up with something based …

Northern Lights: Spectacular views across the world forecast to return | UK News

Northern Lights: Spectacular views across the world forecast to return | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Parts of the UK enjoyed breathtaking views of the Northern Lights overnight – and more is forecast for Saturday. The natural light show, known as the aurora borealis, is one of nature’s “most spectacular displays”, according to the Met Office. Pictures from Friday night featured waves of mostly green and purple light at Bamburgh in Northumberland in the UK, as well as in Estonia and Canada, while social media users posted images taken elsewhere, including Russia. Image: Bamburgh Lighthouse in Northumberland. Pic: PA Image: The Northern Lights over the Tallinn bay of the Baltic Sea in Tallinn, Estonia. Pic: AP While the Northern Lights are mostly visible near the Arctic Circle and northern Scotland, the Met Office said “pale green and pink to vibrant reds, blues, and violets can sometimes light up the night sky, especially in the north of the UK”. The Met Office said on Thursday there was a chance of seeing the northern lights “over the next couple of nights”, predicting sightings being “most likely across Scotland where skies are clear but …

Met Office names two UK areas set to witness Northern Lights tonight | Weather | News

Met Office names two UK areas set to witness Northern Lights tonight | Weather | News

Published by Sam Flores

The Northern Lights glowing waves of light in the night sky caused by charged particles from the Sun colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. These interactions produce beautiful colours like green, pink, purple, and even red. With spring officially beginning today, March 20—the equinox—this period (March to April) offers one of the best opportunities of the year to see the Aurora Borealis. *** Ensure our latest news headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. Click here to activate or add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. *** And now the Met Office has named the areas across the UK most likely to see the incredible light show. In a post on X, the forecaster told star gazers to “keep an eye out as there is a chance of seeing the northern lights” tonight, March 20. “Sightings are most likely across Scotland where skies are clear but perhaps into northern England too”, the post added. The distance to the aurora belt, compounded by light …

How to plan a northern lights trip before they fade

How to plan a northern lights trip before they fade

Published by Sam Flores

After a spectacular run, the aurora borealis is taking its final bow. In the past two years, the northern lights, which peaked in October 2024, have appeared in skies as far south as Florida and Mexico and in urban centers stretching from San Francisco to Washington. The displays have been especially electric, with neon swirls of green, purple and magenta. Source link

Thin, new design doubles the efficiency of OLED lights

Thin, new design doubles the efficiency of OLED lights

Published by Jenni Sidey

OLED screens already feel like magic. Colors pop on your phone. Blacks look truly black on your TV. The panel stays thin, smooth, and flexible. Yet a stubborn problem inside the device keeps engineers from pushing brightness much further without paying a price in power and heat. Researchers at KAIST say they have found a way around that limit. On Jan. 11, the institute announced a new near-planar light outcoupling structure and an OLED design method that can cut internal light loss. The team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the School of Electrical Engineering, reports that the combined approach can more than double light-emission efficiency in small pixels while keeping OLED’s flat form. The idea targets a hidden waste. OLEDs create light inside stacked, ultrathin organic layers. As that light tries to leave, it reflects and gets absorbed again and again. KAIST says more than 80% of the light can vanish as heat before it ever escapes. The need for near-planar, in-pixel light outcoupling structure for ultra-efficient light-emitting devices. (CREDIT: Nature Communications) The Light …

From Epstein to Mandelson to McSweeney, the lights are going out on Starmer’s project

From Epstein to Mandelson to McSweeney, the lights are going out on Starmer’s project

Published by Sam Flores

In fact, the sordid relationship between Epstein and Mandelson had already been well-established by a bombshell document that many do not even know about — but which everyone should read, if you have the stomach. The document was a summary of the emails exchanged between Staley and Epstein. This included emails in which Mandelson was discussed. It also included emails between Epstein and Mandelson that Epstein forwarded to Staley. Investigators concluded that “Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson.” The emails dated from between 2009 and 2011. Lord Mandelson (left) and paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein (right), in an image released in an earlier tranche of Epstein files PA Media The emails are damning. They showed, for example, that Mandelson had stayed at Epstein’s flat while Epstein was in prison for soliciting a 14-year-old girl for prostitution. In one exchange, Mandelson offered to use his (alleged) access to the Minister and President of Congo-Brazzaville to unlock an oil concession for the benefit of …

Disney-themed Wonderfall show lights up Changi T2 ahead of March cruise launch

Disney-themed Wonderfall show lights up Changi T2 ahead of March cruise launch

Published by Sam Flores

Visitors to Changi Airport can now catch a new Disney-themed mini-show at the popular Wonderfall digital display section at Terminal 2. The new Wonderfall show is presented like pop-up storybook coming to life, with scenes inspired by the Disney Adventure cruise ship’s seven themed areas: Disney Imagination Garden, Toy Story Place, San Fransokyo Street, Town Square, Wayfinder Bay, Disney Discovery Reef and Marvel Landing. Accompanied by a medley of classic Disney tunes, the three-minute visual experience features beloved characters from across the Disney universe, including Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Moana, Nemo and Dory from Finding Nemo, and Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. The story also includes animated sequences of the Disney Adventure cruise ship sailing across open waters. The show will run daily with screenings every 30 minutes from now until May 31, 2026.  Source link

Why walking in a national park in the dark prompts people to turn off lights at home

Why walking in a national park in the dark prompts people to turn off lights at home

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As soon as you drive over the top of the Peak District and down into Sheffield you can see the light pollution – and it’s horrible, said a participant in a research project into darkness and light pollution. In the last 100 years, the places where people can experience darkness have reduced dramatically. Now only 10% of the people living in the western hemisphere experience places with dark skies, where there is no artificial light. And the starry skies they can see are limited by artificial light. The number of stars that people can see from most of the western hemisphere is getting fewer and fewer. Researchers trying to find out about public attitudes to darkness attended events over three days in the North York Moors National Park. Here, in one of the UK’s seven dark sky reserves (where light pollution is limited), the researchers explored how immersive and fun experiences, such as guided night walks and stargazing and silent discos, reshaped public perceptions of natural darkness and sparked ideas of what they might change …

‘Magical atmosphere’: Kite fever lights up Lahore as Basant boosts economy | Arts and Culture

‘Magical atmosphere’: Kite fever lights up Lahore as Basant boosts economy | Arts and Culture

Published by Sam Flores

Lahore, Pakistan – Hasnain Khalid, 17, has never flown a kite. Over the past week, though, Khalid and his 27-year-old cousin, Noman Tariq, have bought 200 kites. They’re preparing for festivities that have long been a central facet of life in Lahore, but were banned in 2007. Now, Basant, as the three-day festival is called, is returning, starting on Friday. The historic Mochi Gate, one of old Lahore’s 13 gates that date back to the Mughal era, is bustling once again with shops selling kites along narrow, dimly lit streets. For the past six days, thousands of people have poured in to buy kites and related paraphernalia. Historically rooted in Vasant Panchami, Basant marks the arrival of spring on the fifth day of the month of Magh in the Hindu lunar calendar. Across Punjab, in both India and Pakistan, people celebrate with singing, dancing and — historically — with kite flying. But for 18 years, the festival was not allowed. Several deaths linked to accidents while retrieving kites and to the use of chemical-coated kite …

Curling-Swiss pair’s son lights up social media, dubbed ‘Curling Baby’

Curling-Swiss pair’s son lights up social media, dubbed ‘Curling Baby’

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 5 : Swiss mixed doubles pair Briar Schwaller-Huerlimann and Yannick Schwaller’s family reunion at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics turned into an internet sensation after their toddler delighted fans with an impromptu curling demonstration. After their 9-7 win over Estonia on Wednesday, television cameras captured their one-and-a-half-year-old son River wielding a curling broom twice his height and running around on the sidelines at the Cortina Olympic Curling Stadium. Pictures of their child in his Swiss shirt emblazoned with “Schwaller” on the back quickly sparked a social media frenzy and caught the eye of curling fans, who dubbed him the ‘Curling Baby’. “I got my son after the game, cuddled him, he wanted to get down pretty quickly. He saw the curling broom, took it and held it like a rock star and threw off the whole entire show,” Schwaller-Huerlimann said on Thursday. “We didn’t realize it (would go viral). Yesterday, for us, it was just really nice to see him again after the first few days, we haven’t seen him since …