Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 1:29pm
That dark front door of yours is so gloomy at night, you never know what's going to jump out and grab you. Here's an easy way to fix that: Let there be light. This six-inch fixture is easy to place...
Lighting stories
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 5:56am
GE is planning for a low power, long lasting replacement for the traditional 40 watt bulb, which is quite the workhorse throughout the homes of America. The new LED consumes only 9 watts of energy and is rated for 17...
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 3:16am
Seeing this LED deck lighting instantly makes me wish two things: the first, that I had a porch to pimp out with LED lighting, and the second, that I would get sucked into an arcade machine and find myself in...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 10:34am
How many companies does it take to snap-in an LED light bulb? Two, apparently. California's Bridgelux is looking to marry its LED bulbs with a snap-in interconnect system made by Molex of Illinois, and designed by both outfits. The snap-in...
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 11:59am
We like to interact with our lighting, dimming it, and pointing every which way. This design takes that idea one step further, suspending an orb-shaped bulb inside a box, and surrounding it with perforated Venetian blinds. Let's let designers Enric...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 8:14am
If your room lighting just isn't "Transformer" enough, you should look into the Bloom Light by designer Patrick Jouin. For everyday reading light, its austere bulbous form should suffice, but when it's time to party, the Bloom unfolds like a...
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 3:06pm
Up above is the Less Lamp by Jordi Canudas. It's $875, and that's quite a bit of money. You know what you're supposed to do with it? Well, smash it with a pick-hammer (included with the lamp). That's because when...
Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 8:12am
Forget those compact fluorescent bulbs, or even fancy LED lighting. Scientists in Sweden and the USA say they have developed lighting panels using the wonder material graphene, which one day could make the basic lamp redundant. The material can be...
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:18pm
Philips has been dabbling in multicolored LED lighting for a while now, but now it's topped itself with a second generation. LivingColors v2 is 50% brighter than the original. Combining seven LEDs, it blasts 16 million colors, letting you infinitely...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 11:27am
It's unclear where the recycling comes into it all, but the Light Recycler by designers Eunsung Park, Hansoon Jeong and Yoonsang Kim acts as an amplifier for tiny bulbs like the ones LEDs use. The Light Recycler appears to work...
