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World’s largest video screen lights up Las Vegas (www.bbc.com)

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The sphere is made up of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks. Each puck contains 48 individual LED diodes, with each diode capable of displaying 256 million different colors.

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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"This has potential application in interstellar advertising" -- Woodrow Steenbeck, asteroid city.

[–] ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fucking waste of energy and material.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the light pollution.

[–] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That. Is. Wild.

[–] Raphael@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

meanwhile you have people dying from starvation and being put in prison just because they're black