[ZGuy]

Oops. Looks like I typed the date in using the metric system again.

[kjo]

Do the home office types at GE's NELA Park know about this? How long before they buy somebody off?

[muawiyah]

"Light'em if ya' got 'em" ~ "Light'em up" ~ "Turn on the lights"

[Wonder Warthog]

Exactly what is supposed to be "new" here?? "White" LEDs (actually blue semiconductor LEDs with added phosphor) have been around for quite a while now. Is it the magic buzz-word "nano-", or perhaps "quantum dot"??

All these guys appear to have done is come up with a different formula for the phosphor mix---why is it so much better????

[HiJinx]

One big question remains: When a brilliant idea pops into your mind in the future, what will appear over your head?

[CommandoFrank]

Brilliant... absolutely brilliant!

[ccmay]

Hope he got the patent squared away.

-ccm

[geezerwheezer]

This is really far out there, and sounds super exciting to me. I think this is very cutting-edge type stuff, and will be a commercial success shortly. What a neat discovery!

[Radioactive]

I was reading where quantum dots could be powered by the human body....tapping into the electrical charge we all have.

No more turning on the lights at night to go to the bathroom...put those things at the end of your johnson and just go baby go!!!!!....talk about the Illuminate.......

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I've got LED lights in my house.

They were mad expensive but I feel it was worth it. I don't mind taking the hit for being an early adopter.

The only place I've got regular bulbs is two on the outside(front and side of the house) and one in the fridge.

http://www.superbrightleds.com is where I got them from.

[MNJohnnie]

10/21/15

So what, you are a guy from the future coming back to tell us how wonderful everything will be in 10 years? So tell us, who wins the Presidency in 2008? Are their still Democrats in 2015? :-}

[chilepepper]

this is really wild - truly a leap into the future as i imagined it in my SF books i read forty years ago!

[ladyjane]

You have to bet that Vanderbilt already has title to this patent.

[devane617]

Ummm... Excited Dots...

[SauronOfMordor]

The way florescent lights work is they generate UV light internally, that gets converted to white light by the florescent coating. Seems like quantum-dot "phosphor" coating would work similarly

[The Duke]

Nikola Tesla would not be impressed.

[shezza]

Cool! What a bright idea.

[DainBramage]

What you idiots fail to see here is not the creation of a new source of light, but the evolution of jokery aka humour.

Example. "How many pollacks does it take to got ( screw in light bulb) stir quantum dots into polyurethane and coat a blue LED light.

(grab slide rule pocket)HAR HAR HAR

[ShadowDancer]

Oh my God, then how is anyone going to know when I have an idea?

[DannyTN]

How much power plant electricity goes to lights as opposed to other uses?

If these lights allowed us to reduce the demand for electricity for light usage by 90%, how much impact would it have?

Would it have a significiant impact on the demand for oil? the demand for natural gas?

There would be some offsetting trends, people would leave lights on more, there would be more outside lighting, etc.