Leeds City Council is consulting residents on proposals to turn off street lights at certain times of the night to save £1.3 million over 10 years. The local authority has more than 92,000 street lights, consuming £4 million ...
Tags: street lights, Lighting, Leeds
Looking for a home-theater setup that would satisfy Dr. Evil? LG Electronics hopes so: Next month it will start selling an 1080p projector that uses a lasers as light source, paired with a special 100-inch diagonal screen. We first heard ...
Tags: LG, Laser TV, Consumer Electronics
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) celebrates the nation's longest running public health campaign: National Poison Prevention Week (NPPW), from March 17 to 23, 2013. As a longtime supporter of NPPW, one of the CPSC's ...
Tags: Poison Prevention Efforts, Packaging, NPPW
GE Lighting will provide a complete energy-efficient lighting solution for the Cirebon Superblock Mall located in West Java, Indonesia. More than 600 light points will be fitted with the LED Tetra and CMH systems to create a welcoming ...
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War Horse, the now legendary World War I drama depicting the devotion of a boy to his horse, has moved stage audiences in the UK and US, winning five 2011 Tony Awards. One of the most striking elements of the show is its highly evocative ...
Tags: lighting, lighting design, lighting rig
LG Electronics is launching the LG Laser TV, an ultra-short-throw projector system which requires a mere 22 inches of clearance from the wall, inthe United States next month. The LG Laser TV creates a giant 100-inch class (100-inch ...
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Crystal IS, Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary, high-performance ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UVC LEDs) for monitoring, purification, and disinfection applications, has announced today that they achieved more than 65mW in optical ...
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced to recall more than a half-million LED light bulbs of various brands on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Eight instances of the bulbs associated with visible smoke or fire have been reported. ...
High-efficacy LEDs will target applications such as LED-based fluorescent-tube retrofit lamps, directional applications such as downlights, and Edison-base retrofit lamps. Samsung has reached the 160-lm/W efficacy level in a 5000K CCT ...
After receiving 68 reports of LEDs overheating, including some that produced fire or smoke, the Lighting Science Group has recalled 554,000 lightbulbs sold under the brand names Definity, EcoSmart, Sylvania, and Westinghouse. Included in ...
Tags: LED Lightbulbs, LED, Lights, Lighting
Recently, the Wuzhou Canghai Lake Demonstration Centre of Guangxi, which enjoys the laudatory title of "Pearl of Xijiang", looks incomparably charming and attractive under the shine of newly installed solar LED street lights from SPARK, ...
Tags: China SPARK, Solar LED, Street Light, Lights, Lighting, xinjiang
Leeds City Council is asking residents to take part in a consultation concerning their feelings about switching off certain streetlights in a bid to save money. This move is very typical of city and county councils across the country, ...
Tags: Leeds, Lighting, Switch-off Light
Soraa has received the prestigious “red dot award: product design 2013” for its full-visible-spectrum SORAA VIVID LED MR16 lamp. The red dot is the international prize for high design quality. The competition’s jury only ...
Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, announced today that it will introduce an innovative new thermal management silicone technology for light emitting diode (LED) lamps and luminairesat ...
Tags: LED Lamps, Luminaires, LED, lighting industry
Third-party hardware and software developers can more easily design products that integrate with Philips' color-tunable Hue LED lamp using free tools. The Philips LED-based Hue lamp, launched late in 2012, has garnered an enthusiastic ...