While you probably know the basics, perhaps you don’t really know exactly how the magic of incandescent lightbulbs happens. This video does an excellent job at explaining the true complexity of this extremely simple device.
I like Vizio. They’re an honest company that makes good products and sells them for cheap. But they sell TVs, and now phones and tablets as well. Makes sense. Selling lightbulbs doesn’t make sense. Why are you selling lightbulbs, Vizio?
Don’t have traditional screw-in fittings in your house? Plumen now sells bayonet light bulbs, so Brits can get in on the designer energy-efficient lighting shenanigans too. Look how purdy that bar looks with four of the naked £20 bulbs. [Plumen]
Next year, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will go into effect, starting with the ban of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. With them go the Easy-Bake Ovens that have burned your mini treats a 100-watts at a time since 1963. While Hasbro has insisted they will recreate the toy to embrace modern trends, somewhere an inner child weeps for a simpler time. [The Consumerist]
I’ve had a nit to pick with LED lights and their sterile glow. But quantum dots—tiny crystals that emit a specific color—could be added to LEDs to alter their photonic output. Wee!
LEDs are efficient. But by choice, my house is still bathed in the warm glow of hot electrified metal, in a bulb of glass and inert gas.
