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Every Single Gadget Could "See" With World's Tiniest, Simplest Camera

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»

Why All Your Bulbs May Soon Be LEDs

A breakthrough in producing light emitting diodes could bring LED production costs down as much as 75%. READ»

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Three New LED Lights by Humanscale Are Smart, Bright, Efficient

These sustainable, hyper-efficient task lights will help keep you on-task.READ»

LEDs: The Bright Bulb Revolution

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 Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production, Embraces the Shiny LED Future

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»

New Material Makes White LED Home Lighting Pretty Certain

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»

Snap On, Snap Off No More: Remote Control Sharp's New LED Eco-Bulbs to Change Levels of White Light

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 Unveils Prototype Be Bop Z.E. Electric Car: The Shape of Things to Come?

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»

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Quantum Light Lamp Is a Warmer LED, but Doesn't Come Cheap

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»

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Where's Our Eco-Friendly LED Lighting?

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»

Milan 2009: The Cows of Regent Lighting

Large plush cows and a field of fake grass have nothing to do with LEDs, but Regent Lighting had them in their booth nonetheless.READ»

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NEC's Green Wireless Routers Lead the Anti-LED charge

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»

Indian Solar Lamp Great for India's Students, With One Catch

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»

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Better, Cheaper LEDs Ringing Death Knell of Fluorescent Bulbs

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»

Battle Of The Thinnest TVs At CES 2009

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»