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    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 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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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    The lighting seems much more natural.

    Though daylight white is kind of bluey and weak, I suppose it would work great as a bedside light in the morning (blue lights are better at waking you up)

    Is it the water than aids with the natural colours or does the water just mean you can unscrew a cool light bulb straight away (their example)
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    Image of AlexSea AlexSea
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    what does it mean when the line that says 'other LED lights, cool to' overlaps the picture below it? Is it just formatting on gawker media's part, or is firefox 3.5 rendering things wrong? just curious, i'm not trying to be a peckerwood.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/15/09

    @AlexSea: "..the touch thanks to the.." though the writing does overlap the picture in Chrome. Then finishes the rest of the sentence beneath the images
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    Image of Woz Woz
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    Daylight White does not look good in a home. But I would love to be able to turn all my lights in the home into LED. I did so with the Christmas lights already. But at $35 a bulb, that's a little to much for redoing my whole house.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    07/15/09

    In reply to World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
    OMG, the video on their site is SO trippy, watching the liquid swirl around like a half-filled snow globe! You really can't appreciate the "liquid cooling" from the still pictures above, go check out the video.
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    Image of aaj111 aaj111
    07/15/09

    @bosskev:



    Wow! I didn't even see the water in the pictures, but the video really shows that it's a lightbulb with water in it. That's insane! ...and wicked cool! Not to mention ultimate money savers. I can't wait to get my hand on some of these.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/08/09

    In reply to New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
    Halogens on dimmers FTW!
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    07/08/09

    In reply to New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
    Yeah but don't the CFLs last like 10 years?
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    07/08/09

    @TheCrudMan:

    Mistype. 10 times longer than an incandescent? These last 3 times longer=more buying bulbs, more making bulbs, less consumer/environment friendly.


    If you complain about CFL warmup time, light output, or color temperature, you're buying the wrong CFLs. They come in ones that warm up instantly, same color temp as incandescent, and put out as much light, if not more, as you can put a higher wattage (equivelant) CFL in the same fixture.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    07/08/09

    @TheCrudMan: "If you complain about CFL warmup time, light output, or color temperature, you're buying the wrong CFLs."


    Can you please post a link to said correct CFLs?


    I don't mean to be a jerk, but I've tried most every brand and model of CFL and read lots of reviews looking for an incand. replacement, and it's just not in the stars.


    I finally settled on Halogena, which has a modicum of energy savings and better light than an incandescent (IMO, of course).


    CFLs do last a very long time, though. I have a few in my house that were installed by the previous homeowners when they remodeled -- in 2002.

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    Image of TheMightyTexMex TheMightyTexMex
    07/08/09

    In reply to New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
    Am i the only one that considers old incandescent bulbs "artistic"?
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    Image of ARP ARP
    07/08/09

    @TheMightyTexMex: No, especially the older ones with multiple long filaments. They're quite beautiful.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    07/08/09

    @ARP: Agreed, but I wouldn't use them for 100% of my lighting.
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    Image of elitesoulman elitesoulman
    07/08/09

    In reply to New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
    It's like taking a model t and saying "Hey with a muffler and cupholders and a more fuel efficiency this car is nearly 3/4 as bad as it used to be.
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    Image of Eric Finkelstein Eric Finkelstein
    07/08/09

    @elitesoulman: incandescent light is simply better than florescent light, and any improvements made to its efficiency are good things, to complain about this is asinine.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    07/08/09

    When I was a kid and [regular tube] fluorescent bulbs burnt out in our house, my dad and I would smash them in the garage so they could fit into the garbage can. And I turned out TV.


    Seriously though, everyone suddenly being up in arms over a bit of mercury in CFLs is absurd. We've had fluorescent bulbs for DECADES. Now that they're miniaturized they're more dangerous?


    I should point out that my dad was no idiot, and would break the bulbs in a garbage bag, with the garage door open for ventilation, and move away from it right after breaking. Because he knew 25 years ago that mercury was bad if it got into your system. But he never called hazmat on our garage.

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    Image of Brightmotor Brightmotor
    07/08/09

    In reply to New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
    If mercury is such a pain in the ass, then it's not really your friend.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/08/09

    @Brightmotor:


    "If mercury is such a pain in the ass"


    you mean Freddie Mercury?

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/20/09

    In reply to Delightfully Eccentric Lamps Make Use of Obsolete Technology
    When it comes to lamps I am quite a bit more flexible with crazy artistic designs.


    I myself started to put the pieces together for my own homebrew techpunk lamp, but that project got sidelined when another extremely cool lamp came my way that gave me that effect with minimal modification and a cool bulb from Spencer's Gifts of all places.


    I absolutely LOVE the three bulb designs.

    It's where I originally intended to go with my own design and it's done really well here.


    I've recently come to the conclusion that every man-cave should have at least one really cool and unusual lamp.

    (whether it's a major award or not.)

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