The most popular clip on YouTube this week isn’t a music video, a sports blooper or a comedy skit. It’s a three-minute short featuring Welsh shepherds wrangling hundreds of sheep draped with LED jackets into formations that resemble a game of Pong, a fireworks display and even the Mona Lisa.
Tonight, LED chipmaker Cree (CREE) reported sales and profit ahead of expectations. In the company’s press release, CEO Chuck Swoboda said, among other things, “While the current economic uncertainty has made forecasting the business more challenging, we continue to target growth driven by increased demand for our … products.” Best of luck, Chuck.
Apple (AAPL) shares are getting hit hard in today’s broad market selloff. While there are some minor news developments involving Apple–a lawsuit over the use of the phrase “Mighty Mouse,” a report that the company will use LED backlit displays in future laptops–there’s nothing obvious that would be pressuring the stock.
Kids–they hate brushing their teeth. Sure, we try and show them pictures of zombie faces and toothless seniors, but it just doesn’t work. Finally, someone has come up with a solution to the problem: Make it fun. Researchers at the National Taiwan University have devised a scheme that turns brushing your teeth into a Webcam-tracked video game. Using an LED-studded toothbrush, a camera mounted above a mirror and an LCD display, kids can watch plaque and debris get annihilated from a cartoon mouth while they scrub their choppers.
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