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[challenge entry] LEDs are older than you think.


It's been 50 years since the first LEDs were produced.

From the Illustrated Bizarre Facts challenge. See all 61 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:49, archived)
# Bonus points for identifying the beard.
(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:50, archived)
# It's either Manley or Darwin
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:51, archived)
# Darwin?
and I think the LED is a CP-574 prototype.
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:52, archived)
# i think it's a beard
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:52, archived)
# kate bush?
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:53, archived)
# COL
[chuckle out loud]
(MrCanoehead Marzipaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 23:27, archived)
# Some little snips from a video coming out at the end of the month.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:55, archived)
# now that is the most random thing that I have seen today
(kurm1s didn't exist until, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:04, archived)
# It's a film about Darwin, The Inventor Of The LED Zeppelin.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:11, archived)
# LEDs weren't invented though. Darwin discovered that they had evolved from eyes of newt
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:13, archived)
# By Jove!

I think you're right...
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:41, archived)
# BEWARE
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:48, archived)
# Frog is connecting...
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:56, archived)
#
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 19:03, archived)
# he's got quite an impressive
baud rate...
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 19:22, archived)
# Is that morse
for "You are awful...but I LIKE you!" ?
And click
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 21:13, archived)
# is it a squirrel?
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:57, archived)
# I think you'll find it's actually an evil blood sucking vampire tabby cat
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ษส‡ฦ๐’ สžษ”nโ„ฒ uooW, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:04, archived)
# KRAL MOX
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha โ”( ห˜_ห˜)โ”Œ ส…(ฬโ—กโ—)สƒ, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 20:02, archived)
# The new Robocop sucks.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:52, archived)
# I knew it was a mistake to let Dyson sponsor it
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:02, archived)
# yeah not blue ones though
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 17:56, archived)
# Bonus Gallium Nitride points for you!
(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:00, archived)
# kids today
they don't remember a time before blue LEDs
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 18:11, archived)
# HI, I'M KRAL MOX
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha โ”( ห˜_ห˜)โ”Œ ส…(ฬโ—กโ—)สƒ, Wed 2 Jan 2013, 20:02, archived)