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Panasonic’s Pa-Look Fluorescent Bulbs Get Lit Fast
10:20AM Jason Chen | Not since Adam Frucci’s last house party have we seen anything get lit as fast as Panasonic’s Pa-Look fluorescent bulbs. These use a hybrid lighting method that makes for “instant bulb brightness,” which is more convenient for bathrooms where you want to get light right away and not accidentally step on errant urine. Inside is a “quick lamp” that brings the goods 50 to 60% faster, and then cuts off when the regular fluorescent reaches optimum lighting. Fantastic for the slightly impatient. [Akihabara News] More »
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Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Are The New Hotel Robe
2:29AM Mark Wilson | While hotels are used to catering to the shady sides of society—there’s good reason that rooms are void of blacklight fixtures and stocked to the gills with plenty of cheap towels—they are not used to appeasing eco-conscious thieves. According to Montana’s page on energy efficient CFLs, “building owners, hotel operators and office managers complain about people stealing the CFL bulbs right out of the fixtures.” More »
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Spy Camera Mooches Energy From Fluorescent Lights
3:54AM Adam Frucci | The problem with setting up spy cameras in places where you’re not supposed to is that you need to find some source of power to plug them in to, which make it hard to be sneaky. Not so with these Symbiotic Cameras, which mooch power off of fluorescent lights. Simply slide the ring around the light, and the magnetic field generated by the light is enough to power both the camera and the Wi-Fi chip onboard that can send out pictures taken every 10 seconds. Now you just need to find a way to make a camera attached to a light not obvious, and you’re all set to spy. [Digital World Tokyo via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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