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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Holiday lights: RGBs and LEDs and smart lights, oh my
Clark Griswold would be proud. Thanks to advances in lighting technology, holiday-light decorators across the country have a lot to choose f...
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What Can LED Lights Really Do For Your Skin?
Can simply sitting under a colored light for a few minutes actually transform your skin ? LED light therapy devotees claim that it can do ev...
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Energy Adviser: LEDs brighten holiday nights
Dazzling holiday lights strung over trees, rooftops, gutters and rhododendrons take us back to childhood. Brightly colored lights illuminate...
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Mercedes previews their next-generation LED headlights
Audi and BMW have already moved on to laser headlights but that hasn't stopped Mercedes from developing the next-generation of LED headl...
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Polytec announces Latab's high-brightness LED panel light for machine-vision
LATAB, the Swedish manufacturer of LED lighting for machine vision, presents a new LED light . The panel light is part of a series of high-b...
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Affordable connected lighting system for those who want smarter lights
Philips have been trying to revamp your home lighting for some time now. First there was the attempt to inject a hint of colour into things ...
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BMW’s ‘Light & Charge’ integrates street lamps with EV charging for anywhere energy
One of the biggest concerns in the world of EVs is range anxiety. You can have the most efficient, powerful, stylish, and comfortable car in...
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Energy Focus is lighting the way with LEDs
After losing money for at least 15 years, Energy Focus decided to focus its energy on a particularly powerful customer: The U.S. Navy. Now ...
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LEDs the Fast-Rising Heroes of Efficiency
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, once were the stuff of electronics geeks rifling through circuit board component drawers at Radio Shack. Th...
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3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes
Developing the ability to 3D print various classes of materials possessing distinct properties could enable the freeform generation of acti...
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Sioux Falls to test LED streetlights
The city of Sioux Falls has flipped on the first of four pilot projects testing new energy-saving streetlights. The light-emitting diodes, ...
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Country Club Plaza is being lit up this year in LEDs
The Country Club Plaza has decided that energy efficient LED lights are ready for the big time . When the switch is flipped for the 85th ann...
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Princeton creates a custom 3D printer that prints quantum dot LEDs from scratch
When you think of 3D printing, something like the MakerBot probably comes to mind — just another contraption that can build physical objects...
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Will LEDs Trigger Rebound Effects? Examining the Key Evidence
It was a pleasant surprise to see Rob Day’s thoughtful critique of a 2010 article on the energy consumption implications of new solid state...
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BeON Home’s Smart Lightbulbs Aim To Out-Smart An Intruder
In recent years, we’ve seen a plethora of so-called ‘smart lightbulbs’ arrive on the market, often providing consumers with their first fora...
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DTE Energy hosting LED Saturday urging consumers to switch the light
Energy-efficiency experts from DTE Energy will be at The Home Depot stores in metro Detroit , Saturday, Nov. 8, to help customers make effic...
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Eros Group to tap into $330 million Lighting market in UAE
Eros Group, the official distributor of world-renowned brands Samsung, Hitachi, TCL, Linksys and one of the leading players in consumer elec...
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Elk Grove replacing streetlights with energy efficient LEDs
Elk Grove is replacing its 10,000 streetlights with energy efficient LED lamps that will save the city about $400,000 a year. On Monday, c...
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LEDs to replace bulbs across Andhra Pradesh
The Andhra Pradesh state government has signed an agreement with the Centre to replace the conventional bulbs, tubelights and solar vapour l...
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Choose your environment with colorup lamp by pega D&E
Whether we like it or not, consciously or subconsciously, color plays a strong role in our lives. it is a stimulant with a long history dem...
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Color Vision's modularized LED T8 tube reduces import tax burden
The new modularized LED T8 tube is a new design concept , the idea for which came as a result of extremely high import taxes - and the impac...
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Ornamental plant seedlings grown with LED lights at Purdue
Purdue University researchers’ success in using red and blue LEDs as the only source of light to grow ornamental plant seedlings indoors ha...
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The End Is Near For Incandescent Light Bulbs
Shoppers who get ready for their annual trip to buy light bulbs due to the end of daylight saving time may be in for a surprise this year as...
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Ford saves stricken plane using LED headlight technology in epic ad for new Mondeo
Ford Motor Company is releasing an action-packed pan-European TV ad created by 'The Fast and the Furious' director Rob Cohen, with ...
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Lighting and sensor provider Excelitas up for sale
Excelitas Technologies Corp, a provider of lighting and sensor components to the health and defense sectors, is exploring a sale it hopes w...
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This is not your average light bulb
LED lighting is more power-efficient and lasts longer than traditional incandescent lighting, but it has its limitations, too. It’s expensiv...
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