Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch's product: a light bulb that produced the same warm, comforting glow that we associate with Edison's enduring ...
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Best Buy's Insignia LEDs cost less than half what similar bulbs cost two years ago, and smartphone-controlled bulbs are becoming available. At first blush, expensive LED light bulbs zre an unlikely technology to succeed with consumers. ...
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Seesmart Technologies, Inc.’s two LED lighting products have met the rigorous performance and efficiency requirements set by DesignLights Consortium (DLC) and Lighting Design Lab (LDL) and are now listed as qualified solid-state ...
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Lextar Electronics has announced it will participate in the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair where it will display a number of product lines such as high CRI downlight series, bulb and spot light series, tube series, panel light series ...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — October 9, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE ...
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Lextar Electronics Corp.("Lextar"or the"Company")(TAIEX:3698)announces it will participate in the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair where it will display a number of product lines such as high CRI downlight series,bulb and spot light ...
Philips introduces the Philips DimTone BR30 LED with color temperature dimming and the commercial availability of the Philips LED A21 22 watt LED,the company's 100 watt incandescent equivalent and the LED T8 with external driver,which is ...
It didn't get much attention, but this week marked the 50th anniversary of the invention of the first visible light-emitting diode, or LED, a technology that is well on its way to transforming the lighting industry. It was on Oct. 9, ...
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UL(Underwriters Laboratories),a world leader in advancing safety,announced the enhancement of UL LightSmart in the latest version,1.3.The popular app helps users see the many benefits gained through LED and other more energy-efficient ...
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Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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This is the first in a three-part series of the behind-the-scenes story of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL). A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story of the CFL, originally featured in the October 2012 issue of Electricity Journal, is a ...
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It's lights out for the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb after new national energy-efficiency laws took effect Monday. Consumers in Beaufort County, however, may have already noticed a shortage of the particular pear-shaped bulbs ...
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There is plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt out there over the upcoming federal ban on incandescent light bulbs. The very thought of losing that pear-shaped giver of warm, yellow light drove Europeans to hoard Edison's invention as the ...
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The prices of Light-Emitting Diode (LED)-based lightbulbs have been dropping over the last few years, and the amount and quality of the light they put out have been rising. New dimmable LED bulbs that put out as much light as a standard ...
SWITCH60,powered by LQD Cooling System,takes home top award at HD Boutique event in Miami SWITCH Lighting™,the first company to launch a family of liquid-cooled LED light bulbs with true incandescent-quality light,today announced ...
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