{"id":7648,"date":"2014-11-06T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2014-11-06T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:21:39","slug":"editors-comment-all-hail-the-inventors-we-love-a-eureka-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/editors-comment-all-hail-the-inventors-we-love-a-eureka-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s comment: All hail the inventors! We love a \u2018Eureka!\u2019 moment\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EW editor, Debbie Eales.<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Japanese professors had a real lightbulb moment when they invented the first blue LEDS back in the early 1990s, paving the way for a new generation of bright, energy-efficient white lamps, as well as colour LED screens. And now, the ingenious profs have been rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics.<\/p>\n

This was a case where three boffins put their heads together and cracked something that many big companies had been aspiring to do for years, without success.<\/p>\n

Where would we be without such ingenuity? I am always fascinated to hear the stories behind such inventions. Invariably, the \u2018Eureka!\u2019 moment occurs in the pub \u2013 even in the bath \u2013 or it starts out as a diagram on the back of a napkin.<\/p>\n

In the case of inventor, Trevor Bayliss, the idea of a wind-up radio came to him as he watched a TV documentary about AIDs in Africa, which stated that education via radio broadcasts could help halt its spread.<\/p>\n

Before the programme finished, he\u2019d nipped out to the shed and assembled the first prototype wind-up radio. The original included a small transistor radio, an electric motor from a toy car, and the clockwork mechanism from a music box! Necessity being the mother of invention.<\/p>\n

Hot on the heels of the Nobel prize announcement comes news of another breakthrough, being described as the “Holy Grail” of the LED world \u2013 a low-energy bulb that uses a new type of chip and multiple phosphor conversion. They are said to use 85% less energy and will last up to nine years, according to inventor, Huddersfield-based Well-Lit, which was only founded last year.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it good to know that innovation is still alive and kicking in garden sheds, workshops and businesses up and down the country!<\/p>\n

Inventors \u2013 we salute you!<\/p>\n

Debbie Eales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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