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    Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around

    DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns

    World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs

    New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again

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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11/27/09

    In reply to Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
    Oyule do anything for a buck, designers! Lighten up and create something affordable. You say watt's $650 for a well-designed product, I say you're dim if you expect anyone to buy it. You may think you could filamint with all the money you'd make, given the difference in price and the cost of materials, but in this burned out economy you're not going to seem so bright.

    #puncraft
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    11/27/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: oh you are wicked.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11/27/09

    @njdevil: Thanks! And not that it's any of your beeswax, but my dad always said, "Son, stick to language jokes. If you had a parrafins you'd be a linguistic shark, lumen over the rest of us fishes, ready to wax on at length."
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    11/27/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: Damn. I mean... just.... wow.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/27/09

    In reply to Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
    I'm assuming this is thicker glass than an actual light bulb? If not, these look amazingly unsafe.
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    Image of PN - gooapplesoft PN - gooapplesoft
    11/27/09

    In reply to Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
    imagine a lightbulb with the guts still inside filled with a flammable liquid. When plugged in the coil would spark the flammable liquid causing an small explosion but don't forget its housed in very sharp easy to break glass that would go flying around at high speeds (maybe not).
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/27/09

    In reply to Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
    Edison's little known precursor to the electric light bulb, apparently. It is a beautiful design, but while electricity has gotten expensive, perhaps not $650 expensive.
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    Image of OtisCabeal OtisCabeal
    11/27/09

    @Monty: Or you can go on instructables and they will tach you how to make these for free.... I have several... I used old lightbulbs cut up pieces of cotton sock and some washers... oh and lamp oil and little magnets. It took me 15 min for one... $650 is for suckers.
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    Image of PN - gooapplesoft PN - gooapplesoft
    11/27/09

    @OtisCabeal: yeah rich suckers.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    I've heard of planting bulbs, but this is ridiculous...
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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Well...here is one we did 3 years ago to convert one to an LED light bulb:

    [www.rainydaymagazine.com]
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: Just one. But it takes them all night. And when they're done, the washing machine doesn't work right.
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    Image of Ninety-9 Ninety-9
    11/24/09

    @Duckspwn: 'but it takes HIM all night'?
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/24/09

    @Ninety-9: Technically, him/her and he/she is. But I was lazy, so I just put them/they're. Sshh Sshh, it's okay. Everything will be alright.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Clever way to disguise your water bong.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    And if you're not into plants the bulb can also be used to make an oil lamp.

    [zedomax.com]
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    11/24/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I am not good at keeping plants alive, so this is probably a better idea for me.
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    11/24/09

    @appletoad: Just be careful not to knock it over.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    That DIY planter/vase is sure to light up any desk.
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/24/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: You couldn't resist...
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    Image of Professional_Iceberg_Hunter Professional_Iceberg_Hunter
    11/24/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Yeah, it's nice and all, but it seems a little bit to light. Wouldn't want to knock it over.
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    11/24/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I'm weak..
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    11/24/09

    @Professional_Iceberg_Hunter: The folks over at Instructables do some nice work. Very enlightening.
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    Image of Professional_Iceberg_Hunter Professional_Iceberg_Hunter
    11/24/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Yeah, they're some bright folks.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/16/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    only consumes 4W of electricity (compared to a 25W incandescent)
    Who the hell uses a 25W incandescent lightbulb?
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    Image of Frizzaper Frizzaper
    07/16/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    I realize it's not a whole lot of liquid, but it strikes me that electricity+water=accidents waiting to happen. Assuming the bulbs are assembled perfectly, what happens when you knock a lamp over with one of these bulbs in it?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/16/09

    @Frizzaper: From TFA - "Not to worry, if you drop/break it - the liquid inside is harmless paraffin oil that has been tested and certified safe to UL and ROHS standards."
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    Image of Jonhy Jonhy
    07/16/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    Anyone got a comparison for how much a traditional incandescent and CCFL cost in electricity per year & upfront?
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    Image of CAVEperson CAVEperson
    07/16/09

    @Jonhy: The average CFL is a foolish purchase. Manufacturers use cheap electrolytic capacitors that overheat (in the usual bulb-down mounting position) and burn out long before the rated lifetime of the bulb--usually within a year, in my experience, especially for the crappy CFLs that Costco sells and many people buy. I replace those caps to revive the lights, but I doubt that most folks would want to do that. So, the cost of electricity isn't the most important factor in the economic calculation. On the other hand, I have six 18W Panasonic EFT18LE-T compact fluorescents for which I paid $10 each in 1992, and they're all still working just fine in daily use (bulb down, too). Vastly more economical than these LEDs!
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    Image of Blake380 Blake380
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    I thought LEDs are not supposed to generate heat.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    07/16/09

    @Blake380:

    Very little normally, but it's one of the problems with room lighting bulbs - they can make them very bright, but they heat up, dramatically shortening the life of the LED. That's why most lightbulb replacements have cooling fins (well, that and the power adapter built in!)
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    Image of shockwaver shockwaver
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    so, these put off less light then a 25w bulb? The problem I have with my CFLs, is I just can't get the room to fill with light in the same way, and this is even dimmer? I'd love to save even more energy, but not at the cost of even more light.
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    Image of jdale jdale
    07/15/09

    @shockwaver: That's still a big problem with LED lights, they just aren't available very bright. Even the ones that say they replace 60W bulbs are usually "exaggerating" quite a bit.



    I don't know how useful liquid cooling is. It will delay the bulb from heating up, as the liquid absorbs the heat, but you're still producing the same heat and eventually it will be hot. In a 4W bulb it may not be relevant in the time the bulb is on, but scale up to a 12W or 20W and it's going to get hot, and stay hot when you turn it off, unless you add radiator fins like every other LED bulb already has.
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