It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.

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The system operates a Color Shift configuration that accurately renders colors and images for viewers not directly facing the screen.

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With the system's ColorSmart technology, students can assign different colors to different callers.

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The researchers say their system, called HIrisPlex, can predict either blue or brown eye colors with about 94 percent accuracy.

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Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).

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The state-of-the-art dynamic lighting system from PCK is unique to Empire State Building and allows customized light capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors in limitless combinations along with effects previously not possible such as ripples, cross-fades, sparkles, chasers, sweeps, strobes and bursts.

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