Crystal chandeliers are so bougie. If you’ve got money, why go for hackneyed over making a really, really big statement? That’s probably what an adventurous Munich couple thought when they commissioned the German lighting master ...READ»
For his latest architectural project, Drew Seskunas didn’t design a house or a restaurant or a retail shop, but an interactive light installation, presented at the 2011 DMY in Berlin. Made of folded pieces of laser-cut aluminum ...READ»
What do you do with a building that has outlived its moment? For decades, the standard response has been to tear it down. But another approach has been growing in popularity among architects: Give it a new skin. That’s what the firm ...READ»
An innovation in imaging tech could change everything about electronics as we know it: A super-cheap, super-simple camera that could let everything from robot fingertips to a surgeon's next-gen scalpel "see."READ»
LEDs sip less power, last decades and fit neatly into delicate industrial goods, but will they ever be as beautiful as incandescent lights? "Most LEDs don't meet people's expectations for the kind of light they want in a home or ...READ»
The soft glow of a burning-hot wire in an incandescent lightbulb, and the bluish tinge from the screaming electrical plasma storm in a fluorescent tube may soon become largely things of the past. LED lighting has arrived to beat them ...READ»
Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason? The eco-unfriendly, inefficient, thermo-luminescent tech has had its day. ...READ»
Korean and Spanish scientists have pulled off a neat trick--they've discovered a new molecule that will make white LEDs pretty much a certainty for replacing compact fluorescent bulbs. The invention replaces two previous molecules ...READ»
Sharp introduced new LED lightbulbs that are remote control-dimmable, and can be tuned so that the warmth of their white light suits your home or even your mood.
Sharp's DL-L60AV bulbs are so neat, in fact, that they're a ...READ»
Renault just pulled the covers off its technology demonstrator Be Bop Z.E. all-electric car. It's going to tour Europe to show off its cleverness, and its drive train will actually end up in future Renault EVs from 2011 onwards.As it ...READ»
Just the other day I was moaning about the sorry state of consumer LED bulbs, and now Nexxus Lighting has released high-end LED unit that shines a more natural, warmer light than others available. Best of all--from a geeky point of ...READ»
Tiny, cold, super-efficient at turning electrical energy into light, and relatively cheap--that's a summary of light emitting diode technology as it stands. Given this fact, and the pressure to make electrical items greener in terms ...READ»
Routers are, I've generally found, about the ugliest useful gadgets you'll have in your home. But that doesn't mean that they have to be eco-unfriendly, so NEC just launched a pair of home wireless routers that purport to be much ...READ»
Solar power seems to be a simple and brilliant solution for the power needs of those in developing nations--it doesn't eat fuel, avoids the problems of janky power grids, and it's convenient. Hence the invention of the Studylite solar ...READ»
LED lighting has long been viewed as a superior alternative to compact flourescent bulbs. Although flourescents are more electrically efficient than old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, producing them requires a complex procedure that ...READ»
When news of LG's LH95 "thinnest" LCD TV hit last week, we should've predicted that it was just the first of a series of similar product announcements. At CES 2009, it seems that TV makers are trying to out-do one another with debuts ...READ»
