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As someone who has trouble sleeping and particularly needs dark sleep I wish it had been impossible to make a blue LED.
Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever. Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
It's a high CRI quite bright LED, and I have to shamefully admit that I specifically specced a light in the past with this LED.
Before I knew about this, that is.
Example write-up to see what flashlight nerds talk about: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/nichia-519a/64360/43
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Ok, let me maybe phrase it as a question. Had he not invented the blue led, would he be telling everyone his childhood in the fishing village made him love the color blue, or would that inspiring memory not exist or maybe not be so significant?
Who cares? Its a weird gotcha to get hung up on.
Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever. Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
They didn't sack him, he quit for better pay. In Japan companies rarely sack employees and employees rarely quit. People are expected to stay with the same company basically their whole life. That's why he didn't get fired for disobeying orders. Firing someone in Japan is somewhat socially taboo (just like quitting) and therefore rare. In Japan, companies are considered to be like "family". It would be kind of a joke…
I don't know if that was going on here, but it sure sounds like it. (It could also be that the actual story is completely different than reported here, of course.)
Thanks for the billions in revenue, but remember how I told you to quit trying to use GaN to solve the blue LED problems? Well here's $147 for your patent and clean out your desk, because you're fired.
Assuming everything is reported fairly, I really can't imagine being Nichia's customer. Ever. Sacking and not compensating the employee that single-handedly made Nichia successful by inventing a working blue LED and saving Nichia from bankruptcy is just not acceptable.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, let me maybe phrase it as a question. Had he not invented the blue led, would he be telling everyone his childhood in the fishing village made him love the color blue, or would that inspiring memory not exist or maybe not be so significant?
You’re acting like he’s actively going around saying “Hey! Guess what my favorite color is? It’s blue! And I invented the blue LED, isn’t that a coincidence? And by the way, I loved the blue of the ocean since I was a kid!” He simply answered a question Derek asked and followed it up by saying that he probably likes blue because of the ocean’s color. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the LED. Weird hill to die…
Which is why I was always baffled by the decorative lights in my old office. It was a wall with small scattered lights in different colors, so they used recessed LEDs. Fine. But instead of color LEDs with a neutral diffuser, it had red+green+blue triple LEDs to make white light, with a red/green/blue plastic in front to recolor it! I understand how this could be cheaper to assemble or maintain, but I'll never not bal…