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FIRST Fundraiser: Selling LED "Lightbulbs"
I was looking at my RSS feed, when an article from Engadget popped up (http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/28/d...e-led-light-b/) about some of Dean Kamen's recent activities at the 2010 TEDMED (a conference about medical care and technology), including a possible FIRST fundraiser.
"Last but not least, the man's got a product you might be able to afford for your home. In the quest for an item for his FIRST young engineers to sell -- a la Girl Scout cookies -- he tapped LED manufacturer Cree to produce an 450 lumen light bulb that draws just 7 watts and will retail for about $25 door-to-door. In case you're wondering, that's cheaper and more efficient than most any lamp we've seen before. Dean says they've already produced several hundred thousand of the bulbs thanks to a surprise $3 million investment from Google, and plan to have them in the hands of every FIRST kid soon." This was the first I have ever heard about this. Have you guys heard anything about it? |
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