LED lighting

NuGreen LED Desk Lamp from NewerTechnology Review

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We’ve all heard by now that replacing standard incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs can save us money in the long run.  They use less energy to produce the same amount of light, and they produce less heat doing it.  Compact fluorescent bulbs can be big and bulky and not fit into every lamp and […]

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Energy Efficient Flexible Neck LED Desk Lamp from NewerTechnology

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The NuGreen LED Desk Lamp from NewerTechnology adds some “green” style to your desk.  The lamp is made from aluminum and has 50 cool-white LEDs that simulate daylight.  The LEDs use only 3.6W of power, and they provide about 45,000 hours of light – 22 times more than a traditional light bulb.  The NuGreen lamp

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MEDEA Spirits – Booze with a message

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We know LEDs are great for flashlights, status lights for your smartphones, and a bunch of other uses, but raise your hand if you ever thought to use LEDs on a bottle of vodka. Anyone? Anyone? MEDEA Spirits must be the only one with a vision because they recently announced the world’s first LED programmable

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No more squinting at restaurant menus with the UltraOptix

I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I go to a restaurant that is so dark that I can’t read the items on the menu. I found something that might help. It’s the UltraOptix. It is an LED lighted 2X magnifying lens with a 6X portion that is small and thin enough

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Get in the Mood with a 16 Million Color Lamp

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The Philips 818566 LivingColors LED lamp produces 16,777,216 different colors of accent light. The lamp’s four LEDs (two red, one blue, and one green) can generate 256 different hues, 256 levels of saturation, 256 brightness settings and up to 120 lumens. By using the small remote’s touch-sensitive color wheel, you can wash a wall, corner,

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Camp with confidence with the AltusLumen LightGear Gre

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AltusLumen has just launched their latest LED product: the LightGear Gre. It’s an 18-in-1 LED light with built-in survival tools that make it handy for campers, hikers, travelers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The flashlight has 4 LEDs that output 80 lux. The tools include an aluminum whistle, a storage compartment for storing items like needles

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Lights Of America LED GU10 “Accent” Bulb Review

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Serendipity is a term used to describe a situation that turns for the better without any effort on the part of the receiver.  This is how I would describe the finding of these Lights-of-America LED lights that are replacements for the GU10 Halogen bulbs that I have in the track lights above my kitchen sink.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Puck, the Auto-Sensing LED Light Review

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There are always products that appear on the market which have an ingenious purpose and altruistically purport to resolve problems suffered by all.  And we, the public (or at least me) brighten at the prospect of finally being able to fix this or that nagging issue from the good designers and engineers at company X,

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Juno LED Downlight (aka recessed canned light) Review

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I do my best to be a steward of the environment through recycling, reusing, composting, minimizing fuel and electricity use when ever possible. As the story goes, this past year we purchased a new home in need of much updating and remodeling. My wife and I have taken it upon ourselves to integrate as much

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