Led Engin is claiming a flux density record with a combination of red, green, blue and white die that deliver 3,800 lm from 25 die in a 6....
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What if Every Light Bulb on the Las Vegas Strip Exploded?
A handful of luciferous anecdotes aside, your average bulb or neon tube is designed to not explode . A dropped or defective bulb or, in very...
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Self-rolling LED 'Boogie Dice'
If I ever get too lazy to roll my own dice, it's truly time to put me out to pasture. That's what I thought when I was first approac...
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Driver Creates Short, Powerful Pulses with LEDs
Providing high-brightness, rapidly pulsed, multicolor light, a novel LED driver could displace more expensive lasers and other light sources...
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Swimming Pool Dance Floor Enlightened With Leds
In a well documented blog entry, Loren Bufanu presents a project that lit up a glass dance floor covering a swimming pool with RGB strips. ...
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Osram and Google join forces in smart LED lamps
As Osram seeks new owners for its lamp business, it has smartened up its product offerings, making its Lightify range of smart LED lamps com...
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Nova Scotia Tabs Silver Spring Networks to Manage LEDs
Halifax will use a control system from Silver Spring Networks to managed 43,000 new LED street lights in the city and outlying rural areas,...
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Huntsville’s New Shopping Development Features LEDs
Solar- and turbine-powered lights line the exterior of the Whole Foods store in the Shops at Merchants Walk, a new shopping development in H...
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Bright prospects for connected LEDs as consumer IoT takes off
A new report from the research firm Berg Insight ranks connected LEDs as one of the most promising vertical market segments in IoT. The g...
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LED headlamps evolve in form and function
Despite some shining examples of LED application in automotive headlamps, adoption rates are still not growing as fast as one might expect ...
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Halloween is a holiday that screams for LED light bulbs
Back in the day, glow sticks were the best Halloween accessory. You could toss them in your jack-o’-lantern to give it a sickly green tinge...
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Can switching your light bulbs really save you £100 a year?
The clocks go back next Sunday and, as the nights draw in fast, you can save money on your energy bills by switching light bulbs . Homeowne...
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LIFX launches improved version of its flagship Wi-Fi color LED smart bulb
LIFX told its customers last week that it was going to lift the curtain on something “new” very soon. That something is the Color 1000 smar...
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Xicato Expands Distribution of Smart LEDs in Europe.
Xicato, a leading manufacturer of intelligent light sources, announced that it has expanded the distribution of its LED modules in collabor...
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Awesome Stuff: The Light Non-Switch
One of the definitions of "elegance" in interactive design is the ratio of depth to complexity . This is easily understood in the...
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Kauai utility to retrofit 3,500 streetlights
Kauai Island Utility Cooperative said Friday it will use energy-saving LEDs to retrofit 3,500 streetlights that are owned by Kauai County ...
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Xcel Energy wants to replace 100,000 Minnesota streetlights with LEDs
Streetlights are about to get brighter, cheaper and more energy efficient in a wide swath of Minnesota. Xcel Energy, the largest electric co...
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Prashant Sarswat/University of Utah U. team makes LED lights out of tortillas, soda
Food and beverage waste could shine in the LED lights of the future, thanks to researchers at the University of Utah. Two professors made c...
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HyLite Introduces High Wattage LEDs
HyLite has expanded its line of Mini-Cob lamps with HyLite retrofit solutions for applications to 1000W HID. The press release explains tha...
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A tipping point for LEDs
The city of Eugene plans to spend $1.7 million to convert about half its street lights to LEDs, or light-emitting diodes. The switch was go...
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Cree LED high bay fixtures light Bowling Green field house
Cree has announced a solid-state lighting (SSL) project at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) located near Toledo, OH involving the unive...
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LumenFlow optical and LED technology powers Light-Speed's horticultural lighting
Partnering with two other Michigan companies, Grand Rapids-based LumenFlow has designed and developed an advanced photonic LED solution tha...
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Lightbulb sculptures auctioned
The artist behind Illuminating Lincoln: Lighthouse stood with her fists together near her face at the top of the stairs at Haymarket Park Fr...
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Chauvet to showcase blinder fixture for LED entertainment lighting
A pair of 4s might not get you very far at the poker table, but there are two “4s” you can bet on to be big winners in Vegas this fall: CHAU...
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Independence LED provides commercial LED panel lights for quick-serve restaurant
Lighting consumes a significant amount of electricity for Quick Serve Restaurants (QSRs), especially for ones running 24/7 such as this sam...
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LED Low Bay LED Lights
Super Bright LEDs—a leading online retailer for LED lights—is happy to announce the arrival of two LED lowbay lights. The two and four foot...
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DOE Detroit's Street Lighting Conversion Report Show LEDs Cut Energy Consumption by 60%.
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report on the comprehensive street lighting restoration currently being undertaken by the C...
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Wait…. Don’t write off the incandescent light bulb
LED bulbs are fast encroaching on incandescent light sources because of their far higher efficiency when producing visible light. But Junich...
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LEDs Can Control Food Contamination without Chemicals
In what promises to be an alternative food preservation technology , light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have proven their potential in killing foo...
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Lumileds adds 23-mm COB LED for street and high-bay lighting
Lumileds has announced the Gen 2 Luxeon COB 1216 LED that delivers 15,000 lm and is available over the range of 2200K to 5700K CCT. The chi...
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New HomeKit-enabled Philips Hue lights and bridge box already available to buy online
As we reported earlier, Philips is readying new HomeKit enabled smart home accessories, including new lights with better color reproduction...
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Shedding a Light on Marijuana Growth
In August, The Wall Street Journal highlighted Illumitex’s focus on providing lighting for the growth of medical marijuana. The post said t...
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Doubling Down on a Big LED Display
Last year at the 2014 NC Maker Faire, Manical Labs brought a large LED display. Blinking LEDs and pixel animations are always welcome, but ...
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Subway going all in with LEDs
Subway has upped its commitment to sustainability. As a part of the restaurant chain's ongoing goal to make its restaurants and operat...
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Watts the Deal with All These Light Bulbs?
Deciding on a light bulb nowadays isn’t as simple as just choosing a light fixture; a lot more goes into it than a sense of style. This is ...
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Next-generation LEDs -- bright in more ways than one
New LEDs -- light-emitting diodes -- can do more than save energy and slash electric bills . They can help drivers find an open parking spac...
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Because Burning Man Needed More LEDs
There are a lot of blinky glowy things at Burning Man every year, and Mark decided he would literally throw his hat into the ring. He built...
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LG Innotek announces 3.5-mm packaged LEDs that hit 182 lm/W efficacy
LG Innotek has announced the H35C4 LED Series with what the company claims is the highest efficacy on the market. The 3.5×3.5-mm high-powe...
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Karnataka to switch over to LEDs
Using an LED (light emitting diode) bulb can curtail your electricity bill by almost 85%. Power starved Karnataka will soon make available ...
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Raleigh Will Replace 30,000 Streetlights With LEDs
Duke Energy will begin replacing Raleigh's 30,000 conventional high pressure sodium and mercury vapor street lamps with more energy-eff...
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Go Green LEDs Is Revolutionizing The Indoor Grow Light Industry
LED grow lights are very popular these days. I remember when LED lights first started to really court cannabis growers . The lights left a l...
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