Fire and Ice, as seen at LDI 2009, are two new color specific LED fixtures offered by ETC. Fire produces reds, oranges and ambers and Ice produces blues, indigos, and greens. ETC touts them as being able to produce extremely intense colors with, “brightness levels that rival or surpass the outputs of tungsten lighting fixtures,” all the while being more energy-efficient than conventional fixtures. They both feature Luxeon Rebel 2.5W LEDs with a rated 50,000 hour LED life. In units longer than 11” every 11 inches has a unique DMX address.

ETC’s Fire and Ice

Google ISP

Google announces that it will begin testing a fiber services, with an incredible speed of 1 Gb/s. Of course everyone and their grandma is going to try to apply their community for testing, but it will be interesting to see which city they pick and the services quality. [Ars Technica]

Esteemed Steampunk Gun

Jonathan Alberico, aka macabre151, shows off his steampunk gun “Doris the Blunderbuss”.[Brass Goggles]

ESTA releases standards drafts

ESTA, The Entertainment Services & Technology Association, releases two drafts of standards for public review, E1.30-1-20xx, EPI 23. Device Identification Subdevice and BSR E1.20 – 201x, Entertainment Technology — Remote Device Management over USITT DMX512. [via Stage Directions]

Arduino updates

Version 0018 fixes several bugs and adds features based on user feedback.