General Electric’s new Energy Smart CFL.fluorescent light is one of those things that makes you scratch your head and wonder: How the hell do they do that? A fluorescent spiral lamp into a traditional bulb?
John Strainic, global product general manager, won’t say. He just says that the manufacturing process is the result of “very advanced patents”. As you can see in the video, the fluorescent spiral is housed inside the typical incandescent light bulb glass–which will be frosted in the final version–along with the necessary electronics to make it work.
It seems to me like the typical looks-cool-but-I-don’t-know-if-it’s-useful-or-what invention that may take the market by storm or sit on shelves gathering dust forever. It will be available at Target and selected Ace Hardware stores next January, and around “Earth Day 2009″ (which in case you didn’t know–like me–is April 22) everywhere else. [GE Lighting]
blue
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 11:38 AMI think if they are affordable they will probably be pretty popular.
There is a fantastic carousel in the center of the city i live in and they have recently changed over to using all compact fluros. It looks a bit silly really and i think these would look heaps better.
bubblesnout
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:54 PMYo dawg, we heard you like lights, so we put a light in yo’ light so you can see while you see.
iNoob
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 1:26 PMWHY are they still bothering with these types of lights?
Why not develop better brighter cheaper LED lighting packages?
As i am sure everyone that visits Giz is more then aware that there are major savings to be had with LED lighting
Read
http://www.colorkinetics.com/
for more info and those in Aus
http://www.coolon.com.au/
meinrosebud
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 9:55 PMThe easiest way to get something new accepted is to make it look like the old.
Paul
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:02 AMIt is a great technology, but definitely not new. Litetronics has been doing it for a while now:
http://www.elightbulbs.com/
http://www.elightbulbs.com/Cold-Cathode-Screw-Base-Compact-Fluorescent-Light-Bulbs
I agree with iNoob – they should focus their time on improving LEDs and making them more affordable