David Hasselhoff
Hasselhoff at 130 inches. Screen size. Not the other thing. This must be what the epitomy of technological brilliance has brought us for all these years from Edison’s humble beginnings of the filament bulb. What you see here is an image from the world’s first 1080p (the highest consumer resolution out there) LCD projector powered with a liquid-cooled LED light bulb. As you know, LEDs have a lifetime of 50,000 hours, providing you 5.7 years of nonstop viewing. That’s enough time to watch every episode of every season that the Hoff was in Baywatch back-to-back 315 times (yes I calculated) and still give you over four full days of bathroom and snack breaks.
The projector spits out 600 lumens at 100,000:1 contrast ratio (meaning the blacks are are black-hole black and the whites are super-marshmallow white, the actual shade of the Hoff’s choppers), and is currently only a prototype being shown at the CEDIA 2008 Convention. Being the fact that it’s LED based also means that the power usage will be well below the 200-500W equivalent bulbs that are used right now, meaning that I could probably leave it on 24/7 for the next five years without killing my electic bill. Also with a lifespan dwarfing conventional bulbs by 10-20x, I would not need to replace the bulb for a while. FYI, projector bulbs normally cost at least a few hundred dollars which definitely makes me use mine sparingly. No word on pricing, but but I would give my left…arm…for one when it comes out.
[Via Gizmodo]
