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The Times Square New Year's Eve ball is celebrating its centennial by going green.
The star of the world-famous holiday extravaganza was revamped this year with 9,576 energy-efficient bulbs that use about the same amount of electricity as 10 toasters.
Philips Lighting, which created the light-emitting diodes, or LED bulbs, specifically for the event, says they are smaller but more than twice as bright as last year's lights, which were a mix of more than 600 incandescent and halogen bulbs. And the new lights can create more than 16 million colors for a kaleidoscope of hues against the 672 Waterford Crystal triangles.
Picture of the ball and the rest of the story at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071230/ap_on_re_us/ball_drop_test;_ylt=AjZH.OievYWuUqBa0OYmNois0NUE
The star of the world-famous holiday extravaganza was revamped this year with 9,576 energy-efficient bulbs that use about the same amount of electricity as 10 toasters.
Philips Lighting, which created the light-emitting diodes, or LED bulbs, specifically for the event, says they are smaller but more than twice as bright as last year's lights, which were a mix of more than 600 incandescent and halogen bulbs. And the new lights can create more than 16 million colors for a kaleidoscope of hues against the 672 Waterford Crystal triangles.
Picture of the ball and the rest of the story at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071230/ap_on_re_us/ball_drop_test;_ylt=AjZH.OievYWuUqBa0OYmNois0NUE