Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?
I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you're on.
Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.
I can't sleep well if there's a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it's like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.
All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.
The fans have them.
Don't even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about
Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.
Even some fucking light switches have them now!
I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.
Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?
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fun fact: human eyes can actually perceive single photons.
also fun fact: we can shoot single photons.
How do I shoot photons?
I don't know the details but I think it's customary to offer them a last cigarette first
with laser light. run them through a detector setup where a crystal splits the group of photons in half and direct both to two individual sensors. Do this over and over again until only one of the detectors detects a photon. Congrats that was the single photon.
a shit ! ton of money. and photomultipliers
The human eye can physically detect single photons, but I don't believe you can perceive them.
Yea its not forming an image or anything its just more of a feeling. A reproducable feeling. Was baffled when our professor told us.