I've been cursing Shuji Nakamura since about 2005. Suddenly every gizmo had a blue LED brighter than the sun. Took me months to realize that all that blue light was wreaking havoc on my sleep cycle.
"They have no taste" applied in spades to most every consumer electronics company, with one exception that I noticed (yes, Apple).
I had a 2007 laptop festooned with about ten of those eye-piercing blue spots, but it's hardly fair to blame the inventor for the poor use of his work.
Alfred Nobel had it worse - he did make an explosive ...