New light

[unixronin]

So you thought LED lights were the most energy-efficient lighting coming to market, huh?  Guess again.  An outfit called Luxim has a new gas-plasma light technology they call LiFi.  The new LiFi bulb is the size of a gel capsule, and delivers 140 lumens of instant-on, very high visual quality light per watt with very little waste heat.  (Compare that to around 10-12 lumens per watt for an incandescent bulb, 13-15 for halogen, 35-40 for compact fluorescent bulbs, or about 80-90 lumens per watt for the brightest production LEDs.  Wikipedia has a handy reference table here.)

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i wonder if they shouldn't try lasers spliced up and collimated to produce some nice light. someday.

bright-guy.com ha some nifty flashights.

i've personally held a 6die, 1000 lumen LED job. sweet mother. brightest 6v LED i know of is around 220 lumens. not too shabby.

but what really makes my heart flutter, is the HID flashlight :> oh yah.

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