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Dimmable 60W LED Light Bulb Ushered In by Cree

It's becoming increasingly clear that LED-based light bulbs will become the norm in the future, and for this reason, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the first fully working products of this type have started to make their way onto the market, such as the LED-based A-lamp from Cree, touted as be...

3 February 2011
14:51 GMT

Panasonic EVERLED Might Just Be the LED-Powered Light Bulbs of the Future

Without a doubt, lighting solutions have evolved quite a lot over the past couple of years, many companies, but it seems that Panasonic might have yet another winner on their hands in this field as well, since they've just come up with the EVERLEDS LED bulbs, that feature a wide light distribution angle of appro...

27 January 2011
09:18 GMT

GE Hybrid Halogen-CFL Light Bulb Announced

Energy efficiency and sustainability are extremely important topics nowadays (as everyone has finally started thinking a lot more about protecting the environment and our collective future), and for this reason, we're seeing a lot of developments related to these concepts being announced, the latest being a...

21 October 2010
01:36 GMT

LEDs Are the Best Lighting Solution

Current lighting technologies, using incandescent light bulbs, are on the verge of getting replaced by compact-fluorescent bulbs (CFL), which are touted as being able to significantly reduce electrical consumption, whilst providing the same level of illumination. However, researchers at the Carnegie Melon University ...

10 June 2009
09:50 GMT

Lasers Increase Efficiency in Average Light Bulbs

Experts at the University of Rochester have developed a novel method of using lasers, which allows them to convert regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers able to light with the same intensity as a 100-watt bulb, while consuming the same amount of electricity as an 60-watt one. These bulbs are also able t...

30 May 2009
04:16 GMT

Smallest Light Bulb Created at UCLA

Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have just recently created the smallest incandescent light bulb in history, which is about 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter than the one first designed by Thomas Edison. The filament of the new bulb is only 1.4-micrometer long and approx...

7 May 2009
04:44 GMT

CFL Innovation Makes Them More Efficient

Experts from Queen's University have devised a new method of creating more energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), a praised alternative to conventional, incandescent ones. According to the scientists, their invention would also allow for a more fine tunning of the bulb's “dim” f...

8 April 2009
05:26 GMT


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