Brian Neltner and His Ultraluminous LEDs

Brian Neltner, you've got the goods.

Who is Brian Neltner?

Well, according to his site:
"Brian Neltner is a third year graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His research involves using viruses to biotemplate catalysts suitable for converting ethanol into hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide." Sweet.

He's a blackbelt in Karate, electronic music composer, teaches at MIT on the side. A good guy.

He did something the other day that SuperForest is really down with, namely, he shared.

According to Gibbs-Duhem on Slashdot: "He's designed custom LED light fixtures which are seven times brighter than the closest similar commercial models, and include colors which can't be reproduced by a normal RGB cluster."

So Brian designed a very bright, super energy efficient light, that looked better than anything commercially available, could reproduce colors much more faithfully, and was essentially seven times better than every other LED lamp, and what did he do?...

He put the whole thing online.

Schematics, plans, parts list. He put everything up for anyone who wanted it. Free of charge. All here on his site: Ultraluminous LEDs

A generous gift, selflessly made.

Bravo, Sir!

As we said before, Brian Neltner, you've got the goods.

You get the SuperForest Good Person award!