[geeks] Impressive...

[Phil Stracchino]

Dan Duncan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>> I have a really cool Dymo label printer, but the damned thing has no off
>> switch, and it has a bright blue LED on it.
> 
> How about using some of that tail light repair film/tape?
> A couple of layers would give you a dimmer purple light.

"A couple of layers" of tail-light repair tape?


...


When we made it out of North Carolina, we had no working alarm clocks,
so we went and bought a couple new ones from Target.  There was one with
a blue LED display.  "OK," I thought, "I like blue, it's a change from red."

It turned out it used HIGH INTENSITY blue LEDs.  Big ones.  Think 1.5"
tall bold seven-segment display in high-intensity blue LEDs.  HOLY CRAP
that thing was bright.  I'm not exaggerating, you could READ large print
by it from across the room.  The one (or maybe two) nights we used it,
we ended up folding a blanket double and putting it over the damned
thing ... and you could still read the display *through two layers of
blanket*.


I took it back to Target, told them "I wanted an alarm clock, not a
security light", explained how absurdly, ludicrously bright the thing
was, and exchanged it for a different model.


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