BLUEEEE Re: [sdiy] Latest project completed!

[Andrew Ison]

I notice some Christmas light manufacturers have switched to LED,though i 
have not bought any they looked like remarkably good value,five to ten 
currency units for literally hundreds of them.

The purple and pink LED still seem something of a rarity though.


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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: BLUEEEE Re: [sdiy] Latest project completed!


>
> In a message dated 1/23/05 6:32:13 PM, xyzzy at sysabend.org writes:
>
> << Blue LEDs were cool 3 or 4 years ago when they were still rare-ish and
> expensive, but now they're showing up in toasters.  Its over. :-) >>
>
> Thank you, Tom.  Someone needed to say that.
>
> I love the idea of replacing "cool" blue LED's with red ones.  Now THAT'S
> cool.
>
> Red LED's are historically and culturally significant, you know, like
> incandescent light bulbs and "Pong" are.  Blue LED's?  They have the 
> cultural
> significance of an Avril Lavigne CD.
>
> Mike B.
>