Two French institutions Francais du Design and Equip’Hotel Paris honored Philips MASTER LED, a solid-state light bulb identical in form factor to a conventional light bulb for its innovative design and sustainability. Philips notes its MASTER LED is the first LUXEON Rebel based replacement bulb that delivers on the promise of high efficiency, uncompromised quality light, and long-life, in a package that makes it simple for people to use and feel good about using.

Philips MASTER LED Bulbs

Philips starts with its high efficiency LUXEON Rebel LEDs in the MASTER LED and builds on this with quality materials to ensure that the entire solution is lead and mercury free, and offers long lifetimes to ensure that the Master LED product is a more sustainable solution and can contribute to the global effort to reduce energy consumption.

Guido van Tartwijk, leading the Global Product Marketing effort for Philips LED Retrofit, said MASTER LED not only epitomizes the 'better than replacement' vision, but it is the product that we all want to put in our homes and experience. He noted Philips MASTER LED provides great light and makes a positive impact on our shared environment. A single Master LED retrofit bulb uses less than 7 Watts of power and can replace traditional incandescent bulbs up to 40W, depending on the application. On average it will last for 45,000 hours compared to just 1500 hours for the conventional solution.

The MASTER LED Bulb is part of a range of MASTER LED Lamps that is presently available in 230V countries with release slated for U.S. and Canada within the first half of 2009. MASTER LED is already finding its place in offices, in hospitality and home environments. For more information, please visit: www.philips.com/masterled.