GE Abandons Incandescent Bulbs
The incandescent light bulbs days are numbered. First they were vilified in the media for their gross inefficiency, then the price of their more efficient rival CFLs came down to make them a cost...
View ArticleToshiba’s Overture LED Installation
To represent their lighting systems division, Toshiba has created this beautiful installation at the Milan Design. Titled "Overture" the installation aims to show how dramatic and emotionally...
View ArticleThe Light Bulb, Squared: Illumitex Reveals New LED (Video)
Most people recognize the light bulb as just that: a round, bulbous light source. Even though the incandescent bulb is on it's way out, CFLs and even many LEDs have still come in the traditional...
View ArticleThe Louvre Lights Up With LEDs
It's becoming popular for new buildings to be constructed with high efficiency and with renewable energy sources in mind. Although it's expected that old buildings will be drafty, creaky, and firmly...
View ArticleNew Nissan Leaf Gets Low-Cost LED Headlights
A new generation of LED front lighting systems make their world debut on the Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) have been touted as a more efficient lighting option than...
View ArticleSolar Roads Double As Power Grid
Scott Brusaw's solution to hot roadways and wasted energy is to create roads from solar panels. Solar Roadways is the brain child of Scott Brusaw of Sacramento, CA. Replacing traditional...
View ArticleLED “Fireflies” Bring A Tokyo River Back to Life
A stunning installation in Tokyo's Sumida River created quite a visual spectacle, but it has an important message too. Kicking off the inaugural Tokyo Hotaru festival, 100,000 solar-powered LEDs were...
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