Single-contact LEDs driven with alternating current mean brighter, sharper smart glasses. (Nanowerk News) LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, are essential components in near-eye displays like virtual ...

Charlotte Blu and Alexa Mueller, two Quad Cities-raised singer-songwriters, shared the Common Chord Stage Saturday, Aug. 16. The pair performed songs from both performers' catalogues, as well as a ...

Listeners in K&K Hardware & Lumber sat in store-owned lawn chairs and leaned against stacks of fertilizer bags as Jordan Danielsen performed the first act of this year's Alternating Currents. The ...

The seventh Alternating Currents festival begins today, with more than 500 artists, singers, makers, musicians and creatives bringing their most expressive talent to the Quad-Cities. This is my first ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Alternating Currents returns this week, transforming downtown Davenport, Rock Island and Bettendorf into a, bi-state celebration of music, comedy, film and art from Aug. 14–17. The ...

Produced by KWQC-TV6 and commissioned by the Downtown Davenport Partnership, the documentary features archival footage, aerial filming, live shots from the 2024 festival and interviews filmed during ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Alternating Currents is an annual music, film, art and comedy festival set to get underway in 2025 from Aug. 14 to 17. The unique downtown adventure finds thousands of ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — For the fifth year in a row, downtown Rock Island will come alive with art, music and culture as part of the 2025 Alternating Currents Festival, taking place Thursday, Aug. 14, ...

The harnessing of electricity has played a pivotal role in human history and has exponentially expedited our growth as a species. Since becoming a household commodity in the late 19th century, ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...