Tag: INCANDESCENT BULBS

In anticipation of a new law that will phase out incandescent light bulbs beginning next year, some shoppers are stockpiling large quantities of the bulbs for future use. According to USA Today, people aren't happy using the more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs), which are cheaper than LEDs and use 75-percent less energy than incandescents. Some complain that CFLs aren't quite as ...

Designer Estelle Sauvage decided to respond to the European Union's ban on incandescent light bulbs by trying to craft a lasting legacy for the filament as it steadily marches toward the grave, "demonized by ecology." Sauvage's Kettle isn't much more than an Easy-Bake oven, relying on a single incandescent bulb in its base to warm the water in the pot through its lost radiant heat. Considering ...

Maybe the incandescent light bulb has been sitting in its socket-shaped throne for too many years -- GE thinks so, anyway. GE R&D guys have produced a machine that prints OLED materials newspaper-style onto 8-inch sheets of metal foil in hopes that the sheets -- which can be pinned to just about any surface -- will start the process of home lighting biz regime change in 2010. Picture, if you ...