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Posts tagged “LED lighting”

New Green ESL Bulbs As Efficient As CFLs and LEDs

In the race to finding the greenest way to illuminate our nights, a new company has come up with a new refinement of old technology to serve our needs. Will it be enough to save you even more money? F...

Lightbulbs: Shedding Light on the Power of Choice

I've heard many interior designers express disdain over the quality of light emitted from fluorescent light bulbs. However, incandescent bulbs will be phased out starting January 2010, unless someon...

How To: Make LED Lights for Party Decoration

Our DIY wedding is getting closer, but the challenge of lighting remains. The dinner will be held on a gravel road, lined by olive trees, with the nearest power outlet a good 200 yards away. We've a...

LED Constellation Lamp by Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn

We spotted a great post over at inhabitat about designer Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn's LED Constellation Lamp. Made out of slender copper tubes and warm white LEDs, it's a great example of a designer taki...

Gravia Lamp

Now this is a (literally) brilliant idea: a lamp that needs no plug and is powered by gravity. To turn it on, place weights in the top. Gravity makes the mechanism move slowly down the interior colu...