I saw an interesting article this weekend from CNN World's website. A company called Eight19 has created a pay-as-you-go solar technology called IndiGo that is being deployed right now in Kenya. Check this out, this is Simon Bransfield Garth, the CEO of Eight19. I knew I would like this company as soon as I realized [...]
Read More Eight19, IndiGo, LED, pay as you go, phone charging, photovoltaic, PV, Solar, South Kenya, top upNow, I know what you're thinking – well, unless it's hey, I wonder where I put the remote… Switch Lighting has come out with an absolutely beautiful series of lamps that are being tested right now in "several distinct hospitality properties." This thing is absolutely beautiful, as are Switch Lighting's other LED A-lamp designs, holy [...]
Read More A-Lamp, incandescent replacement, LED, water cooledYou all know me, I'm not really a "press release" kind of guy when it comes to JimOnLight.com content. When I find a press release worthy of a nod, I try to get some of the commentary in there that made me want to talk about the release in the first place. This press release [...]
Read More analysis, Cree, LED, scientific, TEMPO, testingThis is an interestingly simple design that has really piqued some curiosity in my head. There is a very small movement into smaller scaled, lower output personal lighting fixtures popping their way onto the market – you've seen them, things like OXO's Candela series, little sources that have a nice glow. Ikea has some, but [...]
Read More Eisuke Tachikawa, Luminaire Design, Moon Light, Nosigner, topographyAfter the Roomba Light Painting article from this morning, I got a bit jazzed about checking out some inspiring light painting articles. I ran across this one from one of my favorite blogs, Hack-N-Mod, about using an arduino chip to make some excellent pieces of long-exposure light art. The artist who they feature in the [...]
Read More arduino, DIY, hack, Light Art, light paintingIf you follow the L-Prize competition, you would have noticed an interesting entry that GE is going to be making – and is currently in development. GE (General Electric, NYSE:GE) is entering a 60W LED replacement lamp using Cree LED emitters as the light source. This is pretty awesome, if I do say so myself [...]
Read More Cree, Department of Energy, GE, General Electric, L-Prize, Lighting Prize, NASDAQ, NYSEYou know, for the most part, I've been pretty unimpressed with the designs of the A-lamp "replacement" LED lamps. I'm not shooting my mouth off saying I have a much better design, but there is something about that diffused white globe atop the heat sink, which looks like a handful of fins. I actually kinda [...]
Read More A-Lamp, incandescent replacement, lamp, light source, switchHave you all heard about this cool documentary that's being made by Karl von Moller? Karl's making a "State of Electronics" documentary on the history and progress of the Electronics Industry in Australia. Electronics is a wide industry – but I think what a lot of people forget is that semiconductors is a large part [...]
Read More documentary, Electronics Industry, Karl von Moller, optoelectronics, semiconductors, SolarOne of the Duluth Crew, Alex Rugowski from Twitter, posted a tweet about this crazy 8x8x8 LED display this morning. This thing is driven with MatLab – remember that crazy thing?! You have to see this video – the fades are pretty smooth for an 8 pixel square 3D display! The engineer of this awesome [...]
Read More 3D display, 8 pixels, cube, LED, Nick SchulzeI just got ahold of this video from my favorite LED Social Media Guru, Ginny from Cree. You have to take a few minutes and learn what happens when Grandma drops and breaks a CFL! Check out the original post at Cree's Blog. Thanks, Ginny! You rock!
Read More cfl, CFL cleanup, CFL safety, Cree, Ginny from Cree, what to do when you break a CFL