There is a down side to led lighting. There are a few people that are sensitive to them. My friend has been buying up and hoarding incandescent lightbulbs since she learned they were going away, because the LEDs made her sick. My husband finally figured out that it was LED bulbs that were making him physically sick when he got near them, but he figured it out too late to start buying incandescent bulbs. They're already gone.
@janiece8439 Says:
I hate LED It makes me sick and unhappy Makeup application is impossible with white light Where did our yellow sun go ? Bring back sun light in the home 🥺
@kendurham5684 Says:
Me sitting on the couch eating Doritos. Yeah I get it now. You gotta use gallium nitride crystal
@plantasaquaticas3483 Says:
Essa historia é boa mesmo .hein?
21 milhoes de viwes em 3 meses 😮
@RyanMcDonald Says:
Great video, but is anyone else bothered by the two dead pixels on our host's camera? :)
@camollover234 Says:
why is no one making a movie on this
@zillpatel201 Says:
Thanks for highlighting this piece of history Veritasium
@arnabsarker3774 Says:
A great happy ending!!!!
@meghansuncle2116 Says:
Nakamura is a hero!!! Nichia is EVIL for not properly compensating him!!!!
@AnthonyFrancisJones Says:
Excellent story. Bit mystified by 29:15 "1.4 Billion tons of CO2" - per day, per year. lamp lifetime? Or is this just journalistic licence to impress? What am I missing?
@peterchindove7146 Says:
The moral of this story is don't invent sh/*t. Don't study. Don't work hard. And don't trust companies. There is no reward in hard work.
@peterchindove7146 Says:
What an ungrateful, greedy company. Even the Chinese would have paid this guy better than his own people.
@johnnykiehn1872 Says:
F Nichia, imagine doing the impossible and innovating an entire industry and not even making 1/1000000 of the money you brought to your company. I guarantee that greedy chairman made more off his invention than he did.
@dallasdeckard6551 Says:
What an amazing story! This guy is a dedicated, hard-working engineer on the same level as Edison and Tesla and unlike them, he is very humble and appears quite friendly. Very sorry that he was so mistreated by Nichia, but very glad we got him here in the U.S. where Cree BETTER be treating him like the genius, badass he is. I hope he's teaching and mentoring young engineers so his amazing legacy lives on. Can't wait to see what breakthroughs he comes up with in UV LEDs and nuclear research.
@mattVmatt12 Says:
Why's he walking like that tho?
@chucknoris3529 Says:
Most engineers who are at this level just want to solve problems and chase the why, where and how. This guy shows his gratitude and they rejected it. I find most CEOs are like this.
@theinsomniac4life Says:
Quadruples company profits, doubles salary and gets $170 bucks for each patent. Incredible.
@twojstaryelprimo5115 Says:
actually the red one and green one were the hardest because they made it after billions of years
@sujonmiahmiah2448 Says:
it’s discovered is a hardwork
@TheMrDrMs Says:
Amazing man! Really sad how Nichia treated him, but we still owe them some gratitude as well for 'funding' his research. Though, I suspect Nakamura would have still found a way to make his invention. Fortunately, he was properly recognized with his Nobel prize, well deserved. "What's your favorite color?" "Blue" just put a smile on my face lol, you'd think after so much blue, and how he was screwed by Nichia he would detest blue, but he's a very positive person.
@legendrags Says:
Imagine curing cancer and never getting compensated for it
@NOTCherheisten Says:
This is so good! I always wanna thank everyone who makes the world a better place. Something about this will always be a part of my heart. Thank you so much Nakamura, your work will never go to waste, that nobel prize is the only proof you need that you worked your best to where you are now. No amount of money will ever compensate the power of knowledge.🙇♀🙌
@princesingh8988 Says:
Light and heat are one and the same thing.
@Lukecarey-sd2ik Says:
What an amazing story! Thank you for bringing all the Blue into my life!
@deenell9039 Says:
Having a high IQ mixed with passion is the driving force of all technology.
@larrymacdonald4241 Says:
Wanna hear a funny story, I gave and I do mean gave via email, Asus computers the concept of Computer Gaming hardware, they even used my tag line " Made by Gamers for Gamers ", Heavy Equipment Operator by trade but loved computer hardware, I like to fix things. So late one night after restarting like the 100th time to try and overclock a cpu, I was like, why dont they make them with the settings built in. Now I was hooked into online gaming in 1999 with Diablo and Starcraft, around 2001 was when I came up with the idea, but being a redneck with a wife and two kids, no money, I knew there was no way I could even come close to paying for a patent or copyright etc... Asus was my favorite MB to work as they where durable and pretty much rock solid, so I sent them the idea, thinking that by bringing more people together over the internet via gaming, would encourage more people to get to know each other and that was a good thing.... I did tech support for blizzard for about 7 years, volunteer, beta tested many of the popular games at the time, D2, D2 LOD, WoW, Warcraft 3, Guild Wars.
Now everyone and their mother is making " computer gaming hardware " I wonder how much money that has made in the 20 some odd years they have been making it.... and I gave it away.
@Arkstone2780 Says:
Let's make a blue led😂😂
@PainlessRockin Says:
4:10 This is great visualization of what we learned in Chemistry in Highschool.
@i_am_Oblivion Says:
The Hero we don't know about untill the video came
Thanks Veritasium
@otavioschmidt3799 Says:
Muito interessante
@A-185gaming10 Says:
bro said "lets do it" and did it
@nickmarshall-cq9xg Says:
Interesting!
@XPsychowaffleX Says:
Ahhhh thats why every company feels it HAS to add an obnoxious, pointless, and insanely bright BLUE LED light to every. Single. Electronic device. Because its a status symbol of technological advancement.
@TheSpeedForce0621 Says:
Oh 😂
@TheSpeedForce0621 Says:
The only way I could do that 😢
@Wobble2007 Says:
What an absolute legend he is, Arigatō Mr Nakamura.
PS. I'd be interested to see what involvement you had with CRT tech and displays, if any, as well as Plasma, I can't imagine you were not involved in R&D of these over the years they were in play.
@ExecuteBrandon Says:
lol… if it’s so impossible why do all of the QLED TVs have blue LED backlight? 😂😂😂
@naijawindandsolar Says:
From time to time God sends a saviour (read scientist) who invents an item/technology that changes the course of human race.
@bored7616 Says:
Rather inspirational than informative!!❤
@Crackstf Says:
The fact that this guy spent years with the same schedule doing everything, the same way every single day till he figured something out just so we can scroll on YouTube shorts with skibbidy toilet on iPads right now iscrazy. And I mean like $8 million compensation and originally $100 compensation for the biggest leap in lighting history. I mean this guy deserves way more nuclear fusion. I mean, most people were just retire after making the blue light and live happily rich, but this guy, this is a new height to dedication, even more than the Japanese soldier who stayed in theforest in Philippines for years, the Japanese just crazy man😢😂❤
@Name-lt2tz Says:
and there was lack of money. If instead of all those wars governments invest into science, the wordl would be better place, of course if science would be used for good things.
@Name-lt2tz Says:
why anyone still does not buy LED?
@Name-lt2tz Says:
he got this only because he had low risk. The employeer was risking so much money. He could buy company stocks, or negatioate to buy if company was not selling stocks.
@Name-lt2tz Says:
I am a programmer and people think programmers are somethings super special. I feel so dumb when I see what this guy does.
@Name-lt2tz Says:
so the lesson - dont listen to your employer ? :)
@abhishekchandra8099 Says:
Watching this the 10th time this week.
@Se7en1995y Says:
He changed the world with his invention and devoted almost 20 years of his life for it, which he can't retain back. He also saved the company he worked for and turned it to one of the biggest and successful companies in the world in the electronic industry, and all by disobeying his superiors or the overpaid CEOs. All what he got as a result of his achievement was a $170 raise, a lawsuit and losing his job. If he just did his research in the USA, he would be a billionaire. All he had to do there is just keep his work a secret from Elon Musk and Zuckerberg, because they will claim that invention as their own, as they always do.
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