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Charming & Vintage: The Camera Table Lamp
Tagged as London’s “Bright Young Things of 2012″ the design duo Katy Gray Rosewarne and Adam Towner of Tinker & Tailor, work to fuse the old with the new. Tinker & Taylor combines a unique twist on vintage ...
The main types of LEDs are miniature, high power devices and custom designs such as alphanumeric or multi-color. LEDs are produced in a variety of shapes and sizes. The color of the plastic lens is ...
All About LED Bulbs, Part 3: The Dimming Dilemma
There's a three-fixture chandelier hanging in the dining area of my apartment - well, more like the kitchen-side of my long living room, but it's a cozy Manhattan abode in which many rooms serve such double ...
Raw and Elementary: The Wooden Lamp
This unique office set up is not for sale, instead it was originally part of an exhibition design project. Designed by TAF, a Stockholm based design and architecture studio, for the Swedish furniture producer ...
LED Bulbs, Part 2: How Soft Is The Light?
If you've ever curiously browsed for LED bulbs, you may have noticed a whole new nomenclature and jargon - none of it recognizable, none of it helping you figure out how bright the damn the bulb is. I'll ...
The Crystalline Light Forms of Lighting Designer Anne Boenisch
Berlin’s award winning independent designer Anne Boenisch furniture and lighting designs play with strong geometric shapes and lines. Below are three of her most shapely items, including the Astral Suspension ...
All About LED, Part 1: Bulb Basics
They named it the "White City," the 1893 Columbia Exposition World's Fair in Chicago, because of the white plaster buildings lit by millions of new incandescent bulbs that lit up the fair grounds. It was the ...
LED Lighting Design on a Budget
Simply choosing the cheapest LED components has its risks and a better approach is to take a system-level perspective, aiming for the most cost-effective design, writes Mark Pinkney, divisional marketing ...
Ssl-LED Roadmap Recommendations
Because solid-state lighting is a new technology, it will bring with it a number of new system-level attributes. These include programmability, small volume, ruggedness and immunity to vibration, ...
Lindsey Adelman's out of This World Lighting Style
195 Chrystie Street is the place to be if you are a multi-media artist or architectural firm in Manhattan, New York. In fact this nine-story building facilitates the designer and the popular lighting artist ...
Luminaid Light - Solar,Inflatable,Portable and LED
The LuminAID solar light was designed to make a difference and fulfill a specialized heartfelt lighting need. With the focus on affordable renewable light, LuminAID designers Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta set ...
Everyone knows that CFLs and LEDs offer more lumens per watt than an incandescent lamp,but less is known about the lifecycle performance of the newer technologies–including manufacture and disposal.Nick ...
Raspberry Pi Becomes a Data Logger
Pico Technology's DrDAQ single-board data logger adds 17 I/O channels to a Raspberry Pi. When connected to the Raspberry Pi single-board computer,it forms a data logging system that can be integrated into a ...
Cross licence on LED patents among Lumileds, Philips, Nichia, Osram, Cree, Toyoda Gosel, Avago, Seoul Semiconductor, Citizen, GE Lumination, Epistar, Dominant, BridgeLux, Internatix, Kingbright, Samsung and so ...
Solid State Lighting (SSL) refers to a type of lighting that utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), or polymer light-emitting diodes as sources of illumination rather than ...
New LED Technology There are two competing technologies which could radically change the nature of lighting in the future: OLEDs and PLEDs. Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are based on ...
Application Until recently, the use of LEDs has been limited to electronic devices, ambient lighting, exterior lighting or for creating effects, because of the versatility of RGB LEDs and Controllers. With ...
Efficacy The holy grail of the light source. Offering a white light of up 150 lm/w (in laboratory tests). This is the area where the most focus is being placed. The efficacy of LEDs is very much affected by ...
LEDs How it works A Light Emitting Diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device. The effect is a form of ...
Sha-Do Light's Inspirational Light and Shadow Lamps
Adaptable and captivating, the Sha-Do Lamp can change your environment with just the click of a switch, the light switch that is. Peter Buning of Sha-Do Light has found a way to cast a special light in every ...
