Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Times Square New Year's Ball Timeline


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The 2009 New Year's Ball is 12 feet in diameter and weighs in at 11,875 pounds. It will blind you with 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs—that's roughly triple the 9,576 LEDs that the ball had just last year—shining 16 million possible colors through 2,668 Waterford Crystals.

And despite these barely fathomable numbers, the new ball is 20% more energy efficient than last year's.

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