Lydia Hendrickson of Madison, New Jersey (L) points out where the New Year's Eve "ball" will drop to her brother Matthias and mother Jessica (R) in New York's Times Square, December 31, 2009. Thousands are expected to pack Times Square for the annual New Year's Eve celebration.
Lighting Science Group designed and produced the 672 LED module lighting system for the New Year's Eve ball. The Times Square Alliance, which helps coordinate the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, has added even more glitter to the 12-foot-wide ball with the inclusion of 300 Waterford Crystal triangles this year.
The ball can produce more than 16 million colors and a kaleidoscope of billions of patterns atop One Times Square.
"It's tremendous honor for us," said Zach Gibler, Lighting Science's chief executive officer. "The Times Square ball is a unique one for us."
The company, headquartered in Satellite Beach with offices in New York; Westampton, N.J.; Sacramento, Calif.; Dallas, Tokyo, The Netherlands, England and Australia, has had projects around the world, but perhaps few as visible as the New Year's Eve ball. Among its other projects in New York is the Bryant Park Ice Rink holiday lighting.
Lighting Science Group Corporation designs, develops and manufactures LED lighting, which the company says are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than traditional lighting products.
It says this year's New Year's ball, being used for the second year, is three times brighter and 20 percent more energy-efficient than the previous one.
The ball uses 32,256 Philips Luxon Rebel light-emitting diodes in an overall system designed by Lighting Science. The company worked with Philips Lighting and Waterford Crystal to help create the new ball, which is twice as large as the 6-foot diameter sphere last used to usher in 2007. Then a temporary sphere was used for one year before the new one went into service to usher in 2009.
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