Results tagged “lighting”

This is about a thousand years (okay only 1 year) old but it's so adorably cute I had to post it. The Hangman light is exactly as the name says. Disturbing how accurate it portrays my feelings about impossible clients.

The Renovation lampshade by Daria Burlinska and Wojtek Traczyk is made from modules of cast-off plastics, almost like flower petals. I love the organic lines and scale tho I bet it's a bitch to clean.

Humanscale's first LED task lighting solution is set to make its debut at NeoCon 2009, June 15 - 17. The new Element™ light by Mark McKenna, Design Director of the Humanscale Design Studio, offers groundbreaking advancements in LED technology, and is the first of its kind to meet all of the Department of Energy's criteria for an LED task light.

All current-generation LED task lights use a series of LEDs in a cluster or bar to generate illumination. This solution's biggest drawback is the series of shadows it creates across the work surface, causing vision issues. In addition, current-generation LED lights provide inadequate illumination, small or oddly shaped illumination footprints, and poor, bluish-colored light quality. The Element light eliminates each of these shortcomings with a single low-watt Multi-Chip LED that does not cast multiple shadows, meets the Illuminating Engineering Society and DOE's guidelines for comfortable ergonomic reading, and offers a large footprint of comfortable neutral white 3500K light.

Element also offers exceptional sustainability. It's the only LED task light that consumes less than seven watts while also providing ergonomic lighting levels--the equivalent of a 70-watt bulb. Plus, it's constructed primarily of eco-friendly aluminum and contains 40% recycled content. Additionally, Element is 99% recyclable, ships in 70% recycled packaging, and can be integral to the achievement of a number of valuable LEED credits. Lastly, the light is slated to earn the Energy Star label.

Element's unique aesthetic is born from its heat-shedding design. A series of metal fins keep the unit cool to extend the life of the LED--rated at 60,000 hours--and keep lighting performance at optimum levels. Easy replacement of the Multi-Chip LED also ensures a long usable life for Element, unlike most LED task lights, which often cannot be repaired and must be replaced in their entirety when the LEDs fail.

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Humanscale

My boy Philips is about to make those shitty Earth hatin' incandescent bulbs run with their tails between their legs. Tho LED bulbs aren't anything new, their crappy lifespan, poor luminance, and costs prohibited mass acceptance. The MASTER LED BULB uses the same form factor as said replacees with 40 watts of illuminance using a scant 7 watts of energy. Perhaps the best bit is the 45,000 hour lifespan. Compare that to an incandescent's 1,500 hours.

You can find the Master Bulb in stores across the U.S. this July, my birth month! Mother Earth thanks you.

Need a gift for someone special in your life who seems to have everything? How about a headless teddy bear lamp brought to you by The Gift Experience. Let him win a place in your heart as he sits quietly on your shelf or bedside table, waiting for you to illuminate him and show him off in his best light. The black fabric covered shade supplied is a reflective gold on the inside to enhance Teddy's golden features and his plump body enables you to park him where you please without fear of him toppling over. Poor Ted may have lost his head, but he definitely lights up the room!

This is just not right, but. . . DO WANT!

The truth is incandescents are still winning. CFLs are great and all but toxic mercury is used to make them. So the only viable alternative at the moment are LEDs. They're getting cheaper to produce, clean, and last 30+ years. The hurdles are heat dissipation and illumination power. Frog Design believes they've figured out both.

Their bulb uses aluminum to channel heat out and away. The LED is powerful enough to disperse the same amount of light as an incandescent. It even looks like one to make the transition easier for consumers. It's not on the market yet but lets hope soon.

via YD

Yes it looks a little sinister but the Stimuli 3.0 is a lighting system whose shape and therefore light output sensitively varies inversely with the surrounding natural light intensity. At the heart of this device is a unique 3 axis gear box which enables this subtle alteration of lighting through an attractive and striking change in form of the device.

via YD