"If you switched all the street lights in the country's 10 largest metro areas to LED, you'd save about $90 million in energy costs every year," said Keith Ogboenyiya, product marketing manager for the microcontroller line at Texas Instruments Inc. "You'd also cut carbon emissions by 1.2 million metric tons a year ... That's the equivalent of taking 212,000 cars off the road, and it's the sort of achievement that would seem to appeal to the incoming administration." On the medical front, observers have long predicted that doctors would abandon paper records for digital equivalents. Full Article at PhysOrg.com