Hackaday

Edge-lit Pendants Show Two Layers Are Better Than One

Engraved acrylic lights up nicely with LED lighting. Simply engrave clear acrylic with a laser engraver, then edge-light the acrylic and watch the engraving light up. This badge made by [Solarbotics] ...
Ars Technica

Testing shows “significant durability” problems with edge-lit LCD TVs

Thin LCD-LED TVs are appealing because they’re easy to find space for and are aesthetically pleasing. To stay slim, most thin TVs, like Samsung’s The Frame pictured above, use edge-lit backlights. But ...
Electronic Design

Tape Reduces LED Count In Edge-Lit Designs

Uniformity Tape from 3M claims to reduce the number of LEDs required for edge-lit LED LCD panels without sacrificing brightness or efficiency. Uniformity Tape from 3M claims to reduce the number of ...
Hackaday

edge-lit

Displays are crucial to modern life; they are literally everywhere. But modern flat-panel LCDs and cheap 7-segment LED displays are, well, a bit boring. When we hackers want to display the progress of ...
Engadget

3M Uniformity Tape improves lighting quality on LED edge-lit LCDs, lowers production costs

Ever seen a display like the one on the left? That's long been a pesky phenomenon -- known as "head-lighting" -- with many LED edge-lit LCD panels, and 3M's new Uniformity Tape wants to make sure it ...