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Small Light Bulb Overpowers LEDs

Behold the new LIFI 4000, the light plasma bulb the size of a Tic-Tac and capable of producing even more light than a typical gas discharge light bulb! The new plasma bulb has been developed by the Luxim Corporation, a company located in Sunnyvale, California, specialized in lighting technologies. Luxim promises to b...

21 March 2008
08:09 GMT

Solid State Devices Will Completely Replace Light Bulbs

In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first electric light bulb using a carbon filament, only to receive the patent for his invention two months later. In was the greatest invention of the 19th century, but although the materials used to construct the light bulb changed slightly over the years, its design remained...

7 March 2008
05:29 GMT

Say Good Bye To The Light Bulb!

Since its invention more than 125 years ago, the light bulb has suffered relatively small changes in its design. It is probably the most inefficient device ever developed, since more than 90 to 95 percent of the energy it consumes during operation is spent on useless heat radiating from the tungsten filament, and onl...

20 December 2007
03:52 GMT




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