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LEDs Mobile gets progressive in busy month of windy March (MAGAZINE)

March 11, 2021
Our magazine has a new technology look and feel, plus interesting content developments within the March issue, notes MAURY WRIGHT in his monthly Commentary column.

I generally use this space to focus on some burning industry concern or emerging trend, but in this March issue I have some internal happenings I want to tell you about, along with some background about what’s presented here in the issue content. We have some new and exciting progressive digital technology that has deployed and some of you may be enjoying its capabilities as you read this.

We call ourselves a magazine, but we have always been a digital magazine accompanied by complementary parts including a website, email newsletters, webcasts, events, and more. We do print copies of issues to distribute at events and to mail to paid subscribers. But the bulk of our distribution has always been via various digital platforms whereby you get an email informing you that a new issue has arrived, allowing you to click and open the issue in a digital reader platform. If you are reading this and are not a subscriber, get your own subscription for free.

For several years, we have used a platform call GTxcel to present our latest issue and archives. Indeed, subscribers get seamless access and the magazine-like reader works great on large displays. Alas, the experience has not been so good on mobile devices where, as a reader, you may have to move a page around constantly to read all of the text on a small display. So we got progressive. Our website has long used progressive scaling technology to make content more accessible on PCs and browsers. Now our mobile magazine has the technology as well. You can easily scroll horizontally through pages. But when you click on an article, you get a vertical presentation scaled to your screen width that you can read easily with a simple vertical scroll. Give it a try!

Also, we changed our email newsletter roster just slightly for 2021. We now have a UV Tech Insights newsletter once a month to spotlight the latest research, case studies, and products across a range of ultraviolet applications — one, of course, being UV germicidal irradiation or UVGI. You can subscribe at the same link I provided earlier for magazine subscriptions.

Meanwhile, we have an excellent issue for you this month. I remain enamored of mini- and micro-LED technology. We have an Industry Insights piece on the technology for you written by Rohinni CEO Matt Gerber. On a related note, the technology I eagerly await the most is micro-LED TVs that are self emissive or directly emissive. In one of our newsletter columns, I mentioned that I haven’t been sure what to call the technology; LG is using DVLED (direct-view LED).

Also, make sure you catch the final installment of the lighting for health and wellbeing series by Allison Thayer. The entire series is excellent. Allison wrote the articles while at the Lighting Research Center and has since moved on to Mariana Figueiro’s new team at the Mount Sinai Center for Light and Health Research.

Our Carrie Meadows spent many hours attending the virtual Department of Energy (DOE) and Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) workshop recently. That event also had a strong lighting for health component. And we have a feature article for you that Carrie wrote on the topic.

Finally, it’s Sapphire Awards entry time. You can’t win if you don’t enter. Nominations will close at the end of the month, so it’s time to get started if you haven’t done so.

Maury Wright

EDITOR

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About the Author

Maury Wright | Editor in Chief

Maury Wright is an electronics engineer turned technology journalist, who has focused specifically on the LED & Lighting industry for the past decade. Wright first wrote for LEDs Magazine as a contractor in 2010, and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2012. He has broad experience in technology areas ranging from microprocessors to digital media to wireless networks that he gained over 30 years in the trade press. Wright has experience running global editorial operations, such as during his tenure as worldwide editorial director of EDN Magazine, and has been instrumental in launching publication websites going back to the earliest days of the Internet. Wright has won numerous industry awards, including multiple ASBPE national awards for B2B journalism excellence, and has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Auburn University.

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