Rohm unveils "world's smallest" LED: PicoLED
If you dig the nearly endless applications for jazzing up almost anything with light emitting diodes, you'll be thrilled to know that a Kyoto-based firm has now crafted an even smaller rendition of our favorite lighting gizmo to give you even more flexibility when brightening up your life. Joining the bloated list of "world's smallest" gadgets, Rohm's latest LED, dubbed the PicoLED, comes in at just 1- x 0.8- x 0.2-millimeters in size, besting the previous title holder of 1.6- x 0.8- x 0.2-millimeters. The firm purportedly aims to pump out around 10 million of these bantam diodes per month when it hits mass production in April, and if you've got some serious buying power, you can pick these up for around ¥100 ($0.83) apiece and go absolutely wild.[Via PlasticBamboo]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
humpty @ Jan 23rd 2007 8:04PM
Its getting closer to the point when TVs will be made out of a panel of LEDs.
Karl @ Jan 23rd 2007 8:16PM
This will come in handy if anybody wants to don any home-made LED shirts of the sort Philips have been showing off (but not releasing).
Anyone?
P.S: I really wish engadget would remember passwords!
Shadyman @ Jan 23rd 2007 10:20PM
Cool!
PS. I'm glad Firefox remembers Engadget passwords ;)
nuguns101 @ Jan 23rd 2007 8:46PM
wow we have this stuff, but i still can't seem to find any good LED lightbulbs for the house. They seem affordable and the light looks much more natural, but I've also heard that light dispersment isn't very good compared to regular crappy yellow light bulbs. Anyone know where I can find some good ones?
RaDd @ Jan 23rd 2007 9:24PM
I see LED-covered grills coming soon. (y'know...like those guys with diamonds in their teeth on MTV?)
mac @ Jan 23rd 2007 9:44PM
sometimes i feel like nobody even knows what pico means anymore...
Karl @ Jan 23rd 2007 10:00PM
yea that hit me, as well. Since when did millimeters (10^-3 m) equal picometers (10^-12 m)?
Then again, an LED of picometer dimensions would be pretty darn tough. That's two orders of magnitude smaller than an atom (atom diameter = ~10^-10 m).
A @ Jan 23rd 2007 11:14PM
and I thought I had a really tough time soldering these 0603 smd LEDS for my wiimote...
larry @ Jan 24th 2007 12:48AM
yeah these look really nice..lets see some good uses!
i also love that firefox remembers engadget passwords as well..firefox FTW
Nelg @ Jan 24th 2007 7:59AM
So everybody are "ooh! aah! :o" about minimal leds? As a lightphile (har har), so would I, but I can't help but thinking about:
What color is it?
How effective is it?
Is it easily breakable?
Btw, I also love that Opera remembers passwords.
Crono @ Jan 24th 2007 3:24PM
Lets get a Red, green, and blue one stacked right next to each other and then make an LED 1080p TV that costs a small fraction of what LCD's do!
Oh wait, at 83 cents a pixel, that would cost 1721088 dollars just for the display.
Scratch that.
greypoet @ Jan 25th 2007 8:03AM
Old news! Ngineering - http://www.ngineering.com/Nano_white_specs.htm - has been selling Nano LED's for a couple years now. Although they are primarily a model train supplier, their lighting products are incredible. To get an idea of their uses check out the photo at http://www.ngineering.com/Nano_white_photos.htm and note the battery in the background.
jim