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Introducing the LED Bulb That Costs Less Than $15

The knock on LED bulbs has always been their incredibly high price point. But the new Definity bulb has a price so low, it may get people to make the switch.READ»

The Department Of Energy Reveals The Light Bulb Of The Future

This Philips LED bulb is the winner of the DOE's $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb. READ»

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How To Assemble An Eco-office Space

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Apple Patents Glowing, All-Metal Touchpads--What Wondeful Future Does New Tech Suggest?

For starters: invisible keypads, multitouch touchpads, and squeezable iPhones! READ»

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GE Debuts Jet Engine-Inspired LED Bulbs

What do jet engines and LED light bulbs have in common? They both need cooling to be effective. GE makes both, which is why it just scored a major breakthrough.READ»

The Fast Company Guide to Screens

Apple Headphone, Camera Patents Reveal Obsession With Design Details

Apple patents things all the time, but two new ideas for headphone sockets and camera flashes demonstrate exactly how much attention Apple pays to the small details of its product design.READ»

Philips' New Green 12-Watt LED Bulbs Could Replace 425 Million 60-Watt Energy Hogs

Philips has just unveiled what it's calling the "world's first LED replacement for [the] most common household bulb," taking aim at the aging, inefficient 60W gizmo that's been lighting our homes since forever. This is the future of ...READ»

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GE Brings LEDs Closer to the Mainstream With 40-Watt Household Bulb

LEDs are slowly creeping into the mainstream despite their high price tags. Lemnis Lighting recently unveiled the first household dimmable LED bulb, Digital Lumens offered up its system of networked LED lights, and companies like ...READ»

First Android TV Beta-Testing, Available in September

Swedish firm People of Lava has won the race to manufacture the first Android TV. The Scandinavia will be available in three sizes--a 42-incher when it becomes available in September, followed by 47- and 55-inch versions, and ...READ»

Digital Lumens Cuts Lighting Costs With Networked LEDs

Oh, LEDs--so promising, yet so expensive. Digital Lumens, a LED lighting startup based in Boston, thinks it has a solution for commercial customers with a system of networked LED lights that communicate with each other via an ...READ»

Paging Philip K. Dick: MIT Develops Minority-Report-Style Floating LED Screens

Thousands of hovering, helicopter-mounted LEDs can make display screens in midair.READ»

Bright LEDs, Big City

The latest crop of LED facades works like an HUD for the planet.READ»

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How GE Creates Sheets of OLED Light

Anil Duggal Head, Advanced Technology Program OLEDs, GE Global Research Niskayuna, New York Duggal, 44, leads the GE team that's creating OLED lighting sheets, which are produced the way ink is applied to newsprint. "Organic ...READ»

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Inside the Interactive and LED-Inflused Coffee Table

Jeffrey McGrew & Jillian NorthrupFounders, Because We Can OaklandCalifornia McGrew, 35, and Northrup, 32, are a husband-and-wife design team who have completed projects for Wikipedia, Clif Bar, and Timbuk2, and recently ...READ»

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Philips Taps the Creative Community

Kristin KnappsteinBusiness Development Manager, PhilipsAachen, Germany Knappstein, 41, is helping Philips bring OLEDs to market by selling do-it-yourself kits, including glowing sheets called Lumiblades, to kick-start their use ...READ»