Light Beam Industries LED Retrofit Replaces Flourescent Tube Lights

April 10, 2009
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Animated LEDs For Bikes: Monkey Electric Lights

April 9, 2009

These LEDs will certainly draw attention to your bike! Monkey Electric Lights are programmable LED lights that attach to the wheel of your bike. Each Monkey Electric light has 32 bright LEDs, that can display thousands of different patterns as you ride.

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Wind Powered LEDs

April 9, 2009

LED art: a photo of LEDs on a wind turbine.

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A New Type Of Light Bulb In The Works?

April 9, 2009

Vu1, a company based in Seattle, says it plans to introduce a new type of light bulb that can compete with CFL (compact fluorescent lights) and LEDs. Vu1 says the light will be a fully dimmable, mercury-free, instant-on bulb. It will, the company says, last about 6,000 hours – or six times the lifespan of [...]

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New York City To Introduce LED Streetlights

March 31, 2009

Los Angeles is turning to LED streetlights, and now New York City streetlights are moving into the 21st century.  Lighting design firm Office for Visual Interaction, Inc. recently won New York’s City Light Design Competition to create a replacement for the ubiquitous “cobra-head” streetlamps found throughout the city, and their LED fixtures will begin appearing [...]

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LED Work Lights For The Garage & Shop

March 31, 2009

A workshop is a tough place for lights.  Heat, moisture, vibration and breakages are constant dangers, while lights are expected to illuminate the tiniest cracks and crevices.  All these factors make LED lighting a great candidate for garage and shop use.  Here are four of the top portable LED work lights available to shine some [...]

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Architecture Taste Vs. Tech – LA Debates LED Signage

March 30, 2009

LED technology for large-scale displays has advanced so far that its use may no longer be limited by what displays can physically be built (see the Podium Tower in Dubai), but instead by the tastes of the communities where displays are located. The Concerto Tower, a construction project currently underway in Los Angeles with [...]

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Top Compact LED Dive Lights

March 27, 2009

LEDs are particularly well suited for underwater lights used by SCUBA divers. Besides their durability and performance advantages, LED flashlights cast a bright white light that is especially helpful in an underwater environment, where colors are dulled and visibility can drop in an instant. A compact handheld dive light is useful for recreational [...]

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Technology Rewind: Pulsar II LED, The World’s First Digital Watch

March 27, 2009

Richard Nixon was in office, and NASA’s Apollo program was still going strong. The year was 1972, and when the Pulsar II hit stores, the future had arrived – in the form of an LED wristwatch.

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Top LED Headlamps Under $100

March 26, 2009

LED headlamps are available in a mind-boggling range of designs, wattages, and prices. But not everyone needs the monstrous power (and hefty price tag) of a super-lamp like the Brunton L5 – most users simply want the best bang for their buck. So here are four of the top performing headlamps on the [...]

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