- Did you know the RED LED has been around for over 50 years. Your TV etc remote control has used LEDs for most if not all of your life
- Once the Blue LED was invented in 1972 then white light became a possibility. The efficient blue LED was invented in 1989. For the discovery of a bright blue LED engineer Shuji Nakamura and physicists Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014.