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  • Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.

    Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011

  • Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.

    We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red Ivan R. 2011

  • Her eyes filled with sickening whiteness; the car shooting hot white-light over the flowing tarmac; the car roared away from a diminishing lamp.

    Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011

  • There has to be at least one good GLBT-friendly coven in the area, one that isn't all fluffy bunnies and white-light nonsense.

    Have your squid and eat it, too. greygirlbeast 2009

  • Sorry to break it to you but they are powered by LEDs (listen to the video just before the 3 minute mark) so unlikely to be that much cheaper than white-light LEDs (which are normally a mix of 3 different colour LEDs).

    Nanofiber Bulbs are Efficient, Environmentally Sound | Inhabitat 2010

  • Another difference is that some manufacturers (including Samsung) use white-light LEDs, while others (such as Sony and Sharp) tout RGB-colored LEDs.

    CES 2009: What I learned about LED backlighting 2009

  • The scanners use white-light beams to create a body-shaped “point cloud” of 40,000 data points that captures not only about 200 different body measurements, including six different ways of measuring the waist, but also posture and left-right asymmetries — much richer data than a tape measure can collect.

    Rightsize Me 2007

  • The scanners use white-light beams to create a body-shaped “point cloud” of 40,000 data points that captures not only about 200 different body measurements, including six different ways of measuring the waist, but also posture and left-right asymmetries — much richer data than a tape measure can collect.

    Rightsize Me 2007

  • Another difference is that some manufacturers (including Samsung) use white-light LEDs, while others (such as Sony and Sharp) tout RGB-colored LEDs.

    CES 2009: What I learned about LED backlighting 2009

  • But those are being addressed quickly by companies selling better and better options (e.g., you don't have to buy the white-light curly-cue bulbs anymore -- they come in frosted bulb covers that make the light very close to "normal").

    Andrew Winston: Exxon is Green? CFL's "Probably" Reduce Energy Use? 2009

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