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Sand Can Light Up A Room

LED lightbulbs are already energy efficient, but they would be even better if they could emit light without connecting to the grid at all. Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe is trying to make that happen.

11 May 2013

Gadgets

Philips Dimmable LED Review: So Much Light, So Little Juice

If it glows like, works like and even dims like an incandescent, it must be an incandescent bulb, right? Wrong. The 8W Philips EnduraLED only draws a fifth of the power to produce the same warm illumination as the filament bulbs you’ve already got.

27 April 2013

Gadgets

Make CMYK Shadow Puppets With This LED Lamp

It’s taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market — blame artisanal culture or simple force of habit, people love their cream-coloured incandescent bulbs. But as the New York Times devoted 1600 words to explaining yesterday, more and more designers are jumping on the LED bandwagon.

24 April 2013

Gadgets

Blind The Boogeyman With This Quad Beam Light Cannon

Similar to the megapixel arms race that digital camera manufacturers got caught up in, torch makers are instead hell bent on coaxing as many lumens from a handheld torch as they can. Even if it means massaging the definition of a compact torch like NiteCore has done with its portly TM26.

22 April 2013

Gadgets

Energizer Light Fusion LED Lantern Review: A Light For Every Emergency

It’s the middle of the night and you’re in the middle of nowhere when — whumpa, whumpa, whumpa — you get a flat. Rather than fumble through the tire change in the dark, why not keep this portable LED lantern in the boot should the need arise?

20 April 2013

Gadgets

This Floor-To-Ceiling Lamp Marries Modern-Day Tech And Old-School Design

Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin’s Grcic’s OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible angle. And its form is the marriage of new tech with decades-old design.

18 April 2013

Entertainment

Samsung 2013 Smart TVs: Everything Australians Need To Know

Samsung brought some of the CES-magic to Sydney last night for the launch of its 2013 TV lineup. Here’s what you can expect from the gadget giant this year, and how much you’ll be paying.

13 April 2013

Science

Injectable LEDs Send Light Coursing Through Your Brain

People inject all kinds of unhealthy things into their bodies for fun, but most stick to illegal drugs and stop short at electronics. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible; scientists have developed LEDs so small you can shoot them up, and they literally light up your brain.

12 April 2013

Science

Philips’ Prototype LED Could Save Billions Annually

Office parks and convenience stores rely on fluorescent lights. These flickering gas-filled tubes suck down far less energy than the incandescent bulbs they replaced, but they still consume some 200 terawatts of electricity every year. This new super-efficient LED prototype from Philips, however, puts florescents to shame.

6 April 2013

Gadgets

Don’t Like This Torch’s Standard Modes? Just Reprogram It

Few of us have ever picked up a torch and lamented not being able to reprogram it. As long as the batteries aren’t dead and it lights up, we’re happy. But now that HexBright has shown us the advantages of a hackable, open-source torch, who could ever settle for a locked-down Maglite again?

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