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The Daily Lamp – Hourglass Lamp, Which Needs NO ELECTRICITY, for the People of Moore, OK

Posted by Jim - May 22, 2013 - Alternative Energy, Fixtures, Lighting Manufacturing, Lighting Technology, Luminaire Design, The Daily Lamp
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Today's Daily Lamp comes in the aftermath of the horrible tornado tragedy from Moore, Oklahoma — the EF 5 tornado was 1.3 miles wide as it tore through houses, killing at least 24 people, including 9 children.  A very sad time in Oklahoma. When these kinds of things happen and power goes out, people should [...]

Read More Danielle Trofe, kinetic energy, Moore, moore oklahoma tornado, Oklahoma, safety, safety light, The Daily Lamp, tornado, tragedy

Friday Facts – 20 Really Awesome Facts about LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) Everyone Should Know

Posted by Jim - April 26, 2013 - electroluminescence, Environmentally Friendly Design, LEDs, Lighting Facts, Lighting Manufacturing, Lighting Technology
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20 facts on LEDs?!  Jim, are you CRAZY?  I just might be!  With the new Daily Lamp series and the upcoming JimOnLightTV, I'm all about having regular series spots on JimOnLight!  Let's call it Friday Facts! Happy Friday everyone — I am going absolutely LED nuts around here lately, as I've replaced most of the [...]

Read More Friday Facts, GaAsP, GaN, LED, light emitting diode, Monsanto, Nichia Corporation, Nick Holonyak, Shuji Nakamura, The Daily Lamp

A Short LDI Walkthrough

Posted by Jim - October 30, 2012 - Concert Production, Conventions, Industrial, Industry News, Industry Professionals, LDI 2012, Lighting Technology

Happy Tuesday morning, everyone! I put together this short LDI walkthrough for those who weren't there – it's only 3 minutes and it's not all-inclusive, but I think you'll dig it anyway.  There's nothing political, nothing about war, nothing about the Presidential election — it's just pure light enjoyment!  Check it out!

Read More 2012, concert lighting, Conventions, dance, Las Vegas, LDI 2012, lighting, rock and roll, Theatre

MA Lighting's USB onPC Command Wing for grandMA2

Posted by Jim - December 19, 2011 - Consoles, Lighting Design, Lighting Technology

This was something that is just too perfectly timed not to catch my attention – I'm looking into using my wysiwyg Perform into a pre-visualization studio for myself (and perhaps others), and the two consoles I wanna run are the Road Hog Full Boar and the grandMA. Translation from Jim to English:  the two consoles I [...]

Read More console, GrandMA, grandMA2, MA Lighting, onPC, playback, Programming, USB

Crazy Friday Science: Mini-Interview with Sonja Franke-Arnold on Rotary Photon Drag

Posted by Jim - August 12, 2011 - Crazy Friday Science, Interviews, JimOnLight.com, JimOnLight.com Community, Lighting Discussion, Lighting Technology, research, Research and Development

I wrote an article about a paper I read in the journal Science a few weeks ago – the article was about Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by A Slow Light Medium.  I got two handfuls of emails about the article, so I got in contact with one of the original paper's editors, Sonja Franke-Arnold.  When [...]

Read More anisotropic, calcite, Crazy Friday Science, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-Arnold

BLAZE – Laser Safety Sign Projection for Your Bicycle

Posted by Jim - August 1, 2011 - Accessories, Bicycle Lighting, Industry Professionals, Innovation, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Signals, Lighting and Safety, Lighting and the Human Element, Lighting Technology

Ok, first – this is so effing cool that I am excited to try to DIY my own for those times when I'm out biking in the dark.  My good buddy Erich Friend from Teqniqal Systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area sent me the initial article about this thing below – Erich is a technology [...]

Read More bicycle, cycle gear, cycling, Emily Brooke, light, safety, safety light, University of Brighton

Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by a Slow-Light Medium. Right? Right.

Posted by Jim - July 7, 2011 - Coherent Light, Innovation, Laser, Lighting Technology, optics, Particle and Quantum Physics, Photonics, Research and Development

Remember that scene in the Jody Foster movie called Contact when they got all of those drawings of "the machine?"  There was a part of the movie where Ellie realized that the images were encoded somehow, and the key to encoding them was by looking at them in three dimensions.  Remember that minute little detail? [...]

Read More anisotropic, calcite, Graham Gibson, index of refraction, isotropic, Laser, Miles J. Padgett, photons, research, Robert W. Boyd, ruby, science, sodium chloride, Sonja Franke-Arnold

GE is Entering the L-Prize with A Cree-Driven 60W LED Incandescent Replacement Lamp

Posted by Jim - July 5, 2011 - Cree, General Electric, Industrial, Industry Professionals, L-Prize, Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting Design, Lighting Manufacturing, Lighting Technology

If 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, NYSE

The Switch LED A-Lamp – Definitely the Most Unique LED A-Lamp I've Seen!

Posted by Jim - April 26, 2011 - Environmentally Friendly Design, incandescent lamps, Industrial, Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting Manufacturing, Lighting Technology

You 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, switch

Mac Millan's Amazing DIY Raygun Props

Posted by Jim - April 4, 2011 - artists, DIY, Gadgets, Hack It!, Industry Professionals, Just Plain AWESOME., Light Art, Lighting Technology, Lighting Toys

I am so excited to bring this to the web!  I'm even more excited to put the work of a true DIY artisan out there to the world.  All I know is that you need to hire this guy if you have something that needs done like he can do. I want you to meet [...]

Read More DIY, Gadgets, hacks, light, Mac Millan, Make, props, steampunk
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