It’s the middle of the night and you’re in the middle of nowhere when—whumpa, whumpa, whumpa—you get a flat. Rather than fumble through the tire change in the dark, why not keep this portable LED lantern in the boot should the need arise? More »
Photographer Ray Demski recently decided to take climbers and a photography crew to a bridge in Avers, Switzerland, light an ice wall and then shoot the climbers once it got dark. The results are pretty awesome, which is not surprising, because this whole plan was…pretty awesome. More »
Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin’s Grcic’s OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible angle. And it’s form is the marriage of new tech with decades-old design. More »
One element has enormous power to alter the look of a person on film or video—lighting. Cinematographers and photographers are intimately familiar with this fact, but this video really brings the point to life. More »
You usually don’t expect a lamp to do much more than provide a little illumination and snazz up a room. But maybe it’s time you should. Monica Armani’s Silenzio lamps are made with sound-absorbing foam and fabrics so they chase away the dark and the decibels. More »
Used to be, the most customization you could squeeze out of your lighting was how warm or cool you wanted it to be. Not anymore. With the Philips Hue home lighting system, you can control every light in your house down to its color, saturation, and brightness—right from your phone. More »
Office parks and convenience stores across the country rely on fluorescent lights. These flickering gas-filled tubes suck down far less energy than the incandescent bulbs they replaced but still consume some 200 TWh of electricity every year. This new super-efficient LED prototype from Philips, however, puts florescents to shame. More »
It’s time to get bright with no less than the new world’s most energy-efficient warm white LED lamp from Philips! This world record has been beaten with a massively fabulous 200 lumens per watt of high-quality white light – this is compared to a 100lm/W in fluorescent lighting as well as a paltry 15lm/W in traditional light bulbs. This next-generation LED lamp is set to hit the consumer market by 2015 in both office and industry applications while a home-ready lamp will be brought forth soon afterward.
With the prototype lamp Philips is presenting this week, the TLED that is, they’ve created a lamp that’s twice as efficient as its predecessors while using essentially half of the energy. If and when this technology hits the consumer market, major energy savings will take shape. According to Philips, the TLED lamp is intended to replace the antiquated fluorescent tube lighting used in the business world en masse – accounting for more than half of the world’s total lighting.
“After being recognized for our quality of LED light (mimicking traditional light bulbs) to creating new experience with Philips Hue (the connected light system for the home), we now present the next innovative step in doubling lighting efficiency. It’s exciting to imagine the massive energy and cost savings it will bring to our planet and customers.” – Rene van Schooten, CEO Light Sources & Electronics for Philips Lighting
Also according to Philips, the USA alone uses 200 terawatts of electricity annually in fluorescent lighting alone. If each and every one of these lights was replaced by TLEDS, the US would use right around 100 terawatts less annually, “saving more than US$12 billion and preventing around 60 million metric tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.” Sounds pretty excellent, doesn’t it?
Get pumped up about the next generation of lights – the way forward is through! Have a peek at some additional Philips bits and pieces in our timeline below!
Philips TLED aims to replace all fluorescent bulbs in near future is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Joseph Dwyer, who is a lightning research at Florida Institute of Technology, claims that he has discovered a form of lightning that he now calls ‘dark lightning’. Deemed very powerful as well as invisible, dark lightning is said to release sudden pulses of unimaginably powerful radiation. Planes up in the sky are obviously susceptible to dark lightning, though they’re not at any risk from it. People inside these planes though receive the maximum safe lifetime dose of ionizing radiation, which isn’t exactly good for the human body. The passengers won’t feel or hear anything, but they would have already received the significant radiation dose.
A radiation detector must be used to figure out whether or not a plane has been hit by dark lightning while it was up in the sky. However flyers can find solace in the fact that dark lightning is apparently quite rare, it occurs just once for every 1,000 visible lightning strikes. Besides that, planes don’t normally fly in between thunderstorms, they’re usually routed to avoid getting stuck in such nasty weather. Seeing violent flashes of lightening some 30,000 feet from the ground never calms nervous flyers anyway! [Image via Gizmodo]
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Is this some kind of robotic arm? Or a miniature skyscraper? Actually, no, it’s just a humble table lamp—but its design allows it to assume all kinds of amazing, striking forms. More »
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