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more about #lightbulb more comments → Gary_7vn: I am just glad those goddamn CFL mercury monsters are on their way out. CFL we hardly knew ye. And that is a good thing. LED FTW more » Margatron: Wow Lam, this article is a beautiful piece of prose-news. Your subtitle could be "Hot Electric Metal Encased in a Sphere of Glass: An Ode to Tungsten... more » RainyDayInterns: We just light stuff on fire around the office whenever we need a little light. Now that no one prints emails to read anymore, we are just groping aro... more » Xagest: All I gotta say is that you can't properly use a wok without a fire on the stove. more » Jamez: Long live old tech! Modern day consumerism be damned! more » fuchikoma: I like traditional light bulbs too. I know LEDs are currently able to light a room, brightly, without burning themselves out, because you can buy arra... more » The5thElephant: Anyone notice when flashlights started shining white instead of yellow? I hadn't thought of that until now. more » Cash907Censored: I say fuck all these green lights. If I can afford to pay more per month for electricity, shouldn't it be my choice what lights I want to install in m... more » Hello Mister Walrus: I think kerosene lamps are much more beautiful than incandescent light bulbs. Nothing beats the natural warmth, smell and carbon monoxide-induced deli... more » lpranal: A well-written article, but I simply can't disagree more with one of the main points: Incandescent lights are not beautiful. At least, they aren't m... more » Mayor McRib: Nice writing BLam. It's almost like the Tube vs. Solid State argument for guitar amps. As a tube guy, I refuse to go with the LED lightbulbs because I... more » Lunargent: You can get thick walled glass bulbs at most big Crafts stores (ie: Hobby Lobby) for a couple of bucks, and they even come with a screw on brass lid. ... more » Sticks Calhoun: 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... more » Segador: I'm assuming this is thicker glass than an actual light bulb? If not, these look amazingly unsafe. more » PN - gooapplesoft: 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 s... more » -
#lights
Hot Electric Metal Encased in a Sphere of Glass
LEDs are efficient. But by choice, my house is still bathed in the warm glow of hot electrified metal, in a bulb of glass and inert gas. More » -
#light
Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
Oyule Light Bulbs are filled with paraffin and use a wick instead of a filament, so basically they become what the light bulb replaced: A paraffin lamp. More » -
#diy
DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
The ever-present flower on my desk sits in a skinny vase that doesn't exactly scream I'm-kinda-geeky-but-hey-it's-ok-because-I-make-cool-things. Time to start using a funky DIY planter or mini terrarium made of repurposed light bulbs. Maybe the what-a-bright-idea puns will be a bonus. More » -
#concepts
Light Bulb Door Handle Is Pretty Much the Worst Concept Ever
And the poor hand model from this shoot will never work again. More » -
#easybakeoven
Easy Baking with a 100-Watt Light Bulb Takes Me Back
The combination of my Peter Pan complex and our weeklong celebration of food meant one thing: Calling in an Easy Bake Oven. Turns out, no matter how old you are, cooking with a light bulb is (sorta) fun. [Hasbro] -
#leds
Sorry Visa, Our Credit Cards Have Light Bulbs Now
Carrying a lightbulb around in your pocket has always led to precariously sharp pocket lint. Or worse. Or worser. More » -
#lighting
Sharp LED Lightbulbs Sets the White Point In Your Entire House
Why change the camera white point when you can actually change the entire room white point and leave your camera fixed? OK, that doesn't make any sense at all, but you can do it with the new Sharp LED lamps. More » -
#lighting
Philips Master LED Bulb: Enlightened When On or Off
This July, Philips will release an LED bulb that's ready for mainstream consumption, the Master LED. More » -
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#leds
Reinvented Bulb Isn't Just a Bulb: It's an LED Light Source
"The lightbulb is dead. Long live CFL!" may be the chant sounding around the world as we switch to the energy-efficient fluorescent lighting, but this has its own problems—something the LED bulb from Frog Design is intended to fix. It's arguable the CFLs are bad for the environment, with plastic parts, electronics and mercury inside, and they emit a harsh light and can't be dimmed. LEDs are more efficient, potentially longer lasting, are dimmable and need less components. Frog has decided that to get consumers to adopt LEDs, and for ease of use, it's simplest to package them in a traditional glass enclosure, complete with screw-fit contacts. It's a design I've secretly thought about for ages: making it into a real product has just one difficulty... bright enough, white enough, long-lasting diffuse LEDs. [Yanko Design]
