It is made to look like the very first LED in existence, but might not use LED at all

Mar 21, 2014 16:07 GMT  ·  By

Light-emitting diodes are a technology dating all the way back to 1962, when Nick Holonyak Jr. first presented it. Said technology has now been evoked in a new type of lamp.

The first LED was a large, bulky thing, looking a lot like an upside-down jar with a rounded base (or top in this case).

As far as light bulbs went, it fit the mold pretty well. The inventors of the time hardly suspected that LED would come to be used as backlight for displays, or become the basis for a new breed of CPUs, light-based processors. Yet it did, but we digress.

What you can see in the picture gallery is the Alburno LED 1.0 (Alburno is the company name).

The glass globes (well, not really globes since they're not spherical, but we won't nitpick overmuch) can be either clear or tinted, depending on your preference.

Funny, though. The lights inside look a lot like halogen bulbs instead of LEDs, which would be peculiar indeed. Hopefully, we are wrong, but that spiraling metal inside the bulbs does not bode well, and Gizmodo has the same sneaking suspicion (they were the first brave enough to mention it really). Strange for something called LED 1.0. Oh well, we suppose this is just a memorial.

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