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A Light-Bulb Idea Blinks On: Use LEDs In India’s Halls of Government
The power ministry has a plan to tackle India’s energy crisis: new light bulbs . The government suggests replacing all incandescent and fluo...
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Are LEDs Bad For Your Health?
In looking at answers to this question it becomes evident that some LEDs are, and some are not. In order to understand why this is true, it...
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Picking the right bulb makes all the difference with LED options
I first tested an LED bulb seven years ago. It was not a promising beginning. The bulb was a Par 38 spotlight for a recessed ceiling fixture...
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PWC offers credit for LEDs
Geo and Chelsea Livingston use so many energy-efficient LEDs in their 20,000-light Christmas display that their power bill is about the same...
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Why LEDs Are Conquering Lighting
In December, the Nobel Prize for physics went to the team behind a significant invention: the blue light-emitting diode (LED). While red and...
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LED Manufacturers will Uplift the Technology Entry Level and Find New Applications in Hopes to Raise Profitability in 2015
For many LED manufacturers, 2014 has been a challenging year. A lot of manufacturers' performance in first and second half of the year w...
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Lattice Power's High Output GaN-on-Silicon LED PAR38 Lamp Is Selected As A Top Architectural Record Product
Lattice Power, the first company to commercialize high performance, low cost GaN-on-Silicon LEDs, announced today that its new NUP-PAR38 LED...
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Power To Save: Making The Switch To LED Christmas Lights
If you drive through neighborhoods during this holiday season, you probably notice more and more homes with energy saving LED Christmas ligh...
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3 Myths Surrounding LEDs
An article in a recent issue of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology detailed a study in which the effects of LED light on human r...
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Princeton Scientists 3D Printing LEDs Into Contact Lenses
In the future, people with certain vision disorders and even healthy eyed folks will have access to electronic contact lenses that can impr...
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Discounted LEDs, CFLs available at certain stores
With shorter days, it's the perfect time to switch to more energy-efficient lighting to save extra money at home. New high-tech LEDs and...
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Novel LED technology enables detailed investigation of algae productivity
Because food crops are also used for energy production, millions of people are threatened by starvation. Algae could provide an alternative...
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Panasonic LED signs beam data to phones 5 meters away
Panasonic has developed LCD signs that can beam ID codes linked to ads and other information to smartphone cameras that are 5 meters away o...
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Global Market for LEDs to Reach $105.5 Billion by 2019
With the steady increase in the usability and efficiency of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) over traditional light bulbs during the last decade...
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Copenhagen using LEDs to do more than light its streets
Imagine a city where the LEDs in streetlights not only light the way, but can tell you about traffic patterns, the weather or even when to t...
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Designing blue organic LEDs from scratch
A new, highly efficient fluorescent material for blue organic LEDs that is completely free of metals has been developed by researchers in Ja...
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Linear Tech on how to power LEDs and protect them
LEDs are not a “heater” like an incandescent bulb, which is essentially a resistor, they are essentially a diode . As such, they need a fair...
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Future of lights is now
Clark Griswold would be proud. Thanks to advances in lighting technology, suburban dads (and moms) across the country have a lot to choose f...
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Fujitsu’s high-tech light bulb shines data on objects
Researchers have already figured out how to turn an array of LED light bulbs into a wireless data network. Now they’re using them to “print...
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This Company Is Set For Growth Considering the Growth Of LED Lights Market
Various research companies and analysts anticipate the LED lighting market to grow 45% per year through 2019. The market sizeof LED lightin...
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Italian firm Card Tech’s fingerprint smart card ready for mass production
Italian biometric technology firm Card Tech announced that its new biometric smart card, which features IDEX’s fingerprint swipe sensor, is...
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LEDs brighten the holidays, launch fashion trend, refute climate skeptics
A study recently conducted by the National Federation of Independent Businesses confirms what we've known for quite a while – LEDs can ...
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Razer's Limited Edition Classic Series Retrofitted with Blue LEDs
Razer today unveiled its Razer Classic product line consisting of five exclusive products that can only be purchased from the company's...
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Apple Stores now sell these iPhone app-enabled Christmas lights in time for the holidays
Over the last week or two Apple Stores started stocking these new app-enabled Christmas lights from Lumenplay both online and in retail sto...
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Holiday LED lights burn bright and save energy too
As you dust off and untangle strand after strand of Christmas lights it’s a fine time to think about switching to LEDs . Compared to incande...
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The sad state of Switch & its liquid-cooled LED bulb
It wasn’t until my boyfriend sent me a text message the other day asking me if I could please stop dripping oil on the bathroom counter,...
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Mirvac and AMP Capital’s 200 George Street to go fully LED
Mirvac and AMP Capital’s 37-storey premium grade 200 George Street, Sydney building will become one of Australia’s first fully LED-lit comme...
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Taking a shine to LEDs
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it’s a light-emitting diode. Better know...
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Novah launches 6W Lumi LED lamp replacement for incandescent GLS lamps
Novah – the North West-based LED lighting specialists – has developed groundbreaking technology to replicate the traditional GLS bulb. Laun...
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LEDs light up UK suppliers
LED street lights shine brightly on the industry right now. In the past the UK electronics sector was heavily dependent on defence and telec...
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How do you choose? Traditional vs. LED Christmas lights
It's the time of year when Christmas lights decorate everyone's homes. When you go to stores, shelves are lined with many different ...
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5 Lighting Trends Reflect the Age of LEDs
Catering to a new young generation of globe trotters, the past year has seen the launch of a plethora of portable lighting designs that can ...
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Moore'sCloud app-controlled light startup in liquidation
Australian technology entrepreneur Mark Pesce's app-controlled light startup Moore'sCloud has been wound up, with the company going ...
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Surface state engineering to achieve white LEDs with carbon nanomaterials
White-light-emitting diodes (W-LEDs) have many advantages over forms of lighting – incandescent, fluorescent and halogen – and this solid-st...
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LEDs are revolutionizing the lighting industry
I took in NextEnergy's Michigan Advanced Lighting Conference recently to find out about the advances being made in the lighting industry...
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Silicon Allotrope With Quasi-Direct Band Gap
In a fundamental discovery, scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, District of Columbia (US), have synthesised a...
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Enrg Introduces Exclusive Speaker LED Bulb in India
<img src="http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=7732551&cv=2.0&cj=1" /> This easy-to-access and user-friendl...
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Philips Puts Their New SlimStyle Light Bulb On a Diet
The new SlimStyle 75-watt equivalent looks like a light bulb that was caught in a trash compactor, but didn’t shatter for some reason. It’s ...
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How to use the Nexus 6's hidden notification RGB LED
There's always a lot to learn about any new handset, and when it comes to the Nexus 6 , there's not only a new device to get to grip...
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Playbulb Color: The Bluetooth enabled multi-color light bulb and speaker
The world is becoming more connected by the day, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the different "smart" devices that are ...
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Dutch Team Develop 'Warmer' LEDs
Not all light is created equal . Fluorescent lamps generate a lot of light and little heat, but their blue glare can be harsh. Incandescent ...
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New type of silicon could find use in solar cells and LEDs
You probably wouldn't be reading this if it weren't for silicon. It's the second most-abundant element in the Earth's crust ...
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The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed before the Wright Brothers took flight, is 110 years old, and is still as beautiful as ...
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Giving LEDs a cozy, warm glow
When the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded this October to three Japanese-born scientists for the invention of blue light emitting dio...
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Finally light bulb's Tesla tech gives LEDs a worthy rival
Ever since I improbably started blogging occasionally about light bulbs, I've been waiting impatiently to get a look at the first produ...
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In age of LEDs, utilities thinking in incandescent-bulb mode
One recent weekend took me to this northeastern city on the Sanriku coast . In the Seatopia Naado roadside rest area that faces a port in Mi...
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In smart headlight, 1 LED emits beams that can be controlled
A German consortium is developing a "smart headlight" that would require just one LED bulb instead of the array of 25 LEDs require...
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Tough little LEDs are brilliantly illuminating more home appliances
Open that refrigerator door in the showroom. The odds are high that LED lights will brighten its interior. And LED lights aren't illumi...
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Fujitsu Laboratories Successfully Develops LED Lighting Technology that Shines Data on Objects
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a technology that can embed ID data in light cast by LEDs or other light source...
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