Lightbulbs

Serve Up An Energy Bulb and Lampshade in Place of Pizza

This flat-packed lampshade may be designer Maciej Chmara‘s way of passing comment on the death of the traditional light bulb, but all I see when I look at this clever design is pizza. Mmm. [DesignEast via Core77]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 26

Who Needs a Lampshade When Your Lightbulbs Are This Cool

Created for The Standard Hotel in New York by Brooklyn-based artist KAWS, these limited edition lightbulbs, available in a set of three colors, should never be obscured by a lampshade. But move quick: they’re only selling 1,000 of them. The Standard is the third hotel owned by André Balazs Properties to get the custom bulbs,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 21

How Do You Sell Illegal Lightbulbs in the EU? Just Call Them Heatballs Instead!

The EU banned lightbulbs that suck more than 60 watts to improve the energy efficiency of an entire continent. And responding with the proverbial “F U” are two Germans, importing high-wattage bulbs and marketing them as heating devices called “heatballs.” But Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law aren’t just run of the mill entrepreneurs with an…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 18

Incandescents go out: GE shuts down its last major lightbulb factory

In Virginia, General Electric is shutting down its last incandescent lightbulb factory, marking the end of an era in American illumination – and factory jobs. Hundreds of workers will be laid off next month when the GE factory shuts its doors. This tragedy reveals the ugly side of technological change. Though the incandescent was the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 8

Electric Chess Set is Beautifully Vintage

While the standard chess set is of course a visual icon unto itself, we like seeing designers re-imagine the traditional board and pieces. Designer, architect, and competitive chess player himself Brent Blake’s electrified set is more interesting than most. https://gizmodo.com/vacuum-tube-chess-set-5303683/ Brent’s set replaces the game’s pieces with varying lightbulbs—each color representing a different piece (with…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 12

How Quantum Dots Could Make LEDs as Warm as Candlelight

I’ve had a nit to pick with LED lights and their sterile glow. But quantum dots—tiny crystals that emit a specific color—could be added to LEDs to alter their photonic output. Wee! https://gizmodo.com/hot-electric-metal-encased-in-a-sphere-of-glass-5415502 Gizmodo buddy Kate Greene interviewed QD Vision‘s Seth Coe Sullivan and the founder of the MIT spinoff explained the process as such:…

Tech News Brian Lam Dec 7

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. We take the miracle of the lightbulb for granted. We’ve been doing this for probably almost 100 years now, within a generation or two after the world figured…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 30

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

Eternaleds announced their new Hydrolux-4 LED lightbulb, the very first liquid-cooled bulb in the world. The bulbs are incredibly energy-efficient compared to either incandescent or CFL bulbs, and come with a price tag to match. The bulbs, which cost $35 each (!), are rated for 35,000 hours of use and only consumes 4W of electricity…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 15

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

I know, I know. Tech writers spent all this time hyping CFLs, and now it’s possible that incandescent bulbs might be acceptable again thanks to a new technology that seals the filament in a special, heat-reflecting inner-capsule? The nerve! The NY Times’ Green Inc. blog says the inner capsule of these new bulbs, developed by…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 8

Bird Pendant Decorates Exposed Bulbs the Easiest Way

Hanging a real light fixture can be hard. But snapping a metal bird to a lightbulb? Easy. The $50 Bird Pendant Light by Sweden-based artist Hung Ming Chen is a simple brass fixture that squeezes onto a bare bulb. And while we’re guessing it might get a little hot, there’s certainly no easier way to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 26

Brendan Koerner Teaches Stephen Colbert About CFLs and the Environment

Friend of Giz and contributing editor Brendan I. Koerner was on the Colbert Report last night to school Stephen on ways to save the environment. Koerner discussed the paper/plastic debate, using air conditioning vs. windows, and whether it’s cheaper to buy CFLs or regular bulbs. Colbert let the green-concious Koerner off pretty easy, but he…

Television Benny Goldman Aug 1

Vaka Squeezable Lightbulbs Can Be Charged And Taken Anywhere

Vaka’s concept for lightbulbs revolves around silicon orbs that you squeeze to turn the light on/off, or twist to make the light dimmer or brighter. But the bulbs are also chargeable, meaning you can remove them from the fixture and take them wherever light is needed…like those village raids against the local vampire. [Yanko]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 21

LED Lightbulb Keychain

I would imagine that Thomas Edison is rolling in his grave over this little gadget. It’s an LED light keychain shaped like a lightbulb. That is like making a cake that looks like a sandwich—it is just wrong and deceiving. $6. Product Page [Via technabob]

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 30

Levitating Functional Lightbulb? Wtf?

This is the truth. Another one of those MIT Ph.D. junkies has actually made this happen. I would try to explain how it works in my own way, but trying to figure out this jazz would probably make my brain turn to goo and drain out of my ears. Read it for yourself. Lightbulb uses…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jan 19

SMS Lightbulb

This thing popped up yesterday and I think it deserves mention. It’s a Fujitsu light bulb that sends an SMS when it burns out via Powerline IP. Yep, that’s right. When the bulb plinks out, it sends a message over your home wiring, out to a main server, and then back to your cell phone.…

Tech News Johnb Aug 18

Serve Up An Energy Bulb and Lampshade in Place of Pizza

Who Needs a Lampshade When Your Lightbulbs Are This Cool

How Do You Sell Illegal Lightbulbs in the EU? Just Call Them Heatballs Instead!

Incandescents go out: GE shuts down its last major lightbulb factory

Electric Chess Set is Beautifully Vintage

How Quantum Dots Could Make LEDs as Warm as Candlelight

Hot Electric Metal Encased in a Sphere of Glass

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

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

Bird Pendant Decorates Exposed Bulbs the Easiest Way

Brendan Koerner Teaches Stephen Colbert About CFLs and the Environment

Vaka Squeezable Lightbulbs Can Be Charged And Taken Anywhere

LED Lightbulb Keychain

Levitating Functional Lightbulb? Wtf?

SMS Lightbulb

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