The Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA in New York, U.S. was founded in 1888 to cater to a then fast-growing community. It has since steadily expanded into today's 5,388 square meters (65,000 square-foot) facility.  Situated in the lower level, the space receives minimal natural daylight and thus requires a significant amount of artificial lighting power. The 14 high-pressure sodium light fixtures at the facility which were 480 watts each were changed to 1X8 LED light fixtures which are 102 watts each. 

The lighting specialists at LED Strip Lights co. have shared their views on the news that the glow from LEDs may be able to provide robots with an artificial skin that could enable them to sense touch. If successful, the concept could be used for inkless fingerprint scanners, biological imaging and to enhance the performance of micro-electro mechanical systems.

Glowsource.com, a company that supplies glow in the dark party supplies gives an overview of some of the top LED party accessories that are suitable for all occasions.  Whether for a birthday party, summer party, graduation party, Halloween party, New Years’ party or other parties, glow in the dark parties are the latest craze that don’t see signs of slowing down any time soon. They suit every theme and make parties more fun. 

Larson Electronics announced the release of an infrared (IR) LED light built to provide powerful and reliable IR illumination in a rugged and easy to mount design that is ideal for use as a covert military vehicle tail light and indicator. The LEDLB-1-IR-MTL Military Infrared LED Tail Light can withstand demanding conditions and is ideal for operators who want the ability to maintain covert operations without compromising the ability to identify the location of their own vehicles.

As the major "ENERGY STAR Technology Provider" for U.S. home remodeling media company Proud Green Home, LG Electronics USA is playing a key role in this unique project that features techniques, products and designs to create a sustainable home for the future.

Metro LED Lighting is marketing a new LED lighting fixture for commercial parking garages that is now DesignLights Consortium (DLC) qualified. The GL-40SV, from IntenCity Lighting, is designed for effective lighting, with low glare, and high efficiency to lower electric costs. It is engineered as a one-to-one replacement for High Intensity Discharge (HID) fixtures and fluorescent garage lights. As a DLC listed parking garage light, this LED fixture has undergone testing to assure compliance with the latest outdoor lighting standards. The GL-40SV Parking Garage Light requires no periodic maintenance, re-lamping or ballast changes required of fluorescent garage lighting or HID fixtures.

Tampa General Medical Group installed LED lighting and controls from Acuity Brands, Inc.​ in its newly constructed Family Care Center in Brandon, Florida. The 10,000 square-foot ambulatory clinic features the latest in modern lighting technologies to minimize energy costs and provide quality lighting for medical staff and patients.

The city of Lyon in France had been awarded the first prize for the project ‘’Le mur vegetalise de l’ Annonciade’’ in the tenth edition of the city.people.light awards last year. The annual global competition is organized by Philips and the Lighting Urban Community International Association (LUCI) to reward projects which demonstrate the contribution lighting can make to the well-being of those who live, work or visit a city or town.

Acuity Brands demonstrated three new advancements in OLED luminaires at LIGHTFAIR® International 2013, April 23-25, in Philadelphia. Each energy-saving OLED luminaire was designed to enhance architectural spaces through their flexible, customizable form factors and give users novel ways to experience and design with light.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) installed 48 Incito™ LED downlights​ embedded with nLIGHT® lighting controls​ from Acuity Brands Inc.​ as part of the University’s renovation of the Great Dome in the Barker Engineering Library. MIT updated the historic dome using integrated Gotham® LED downlighting with embedded controls to provide consistent light levels for reading in the library, while complementing daylighting from the Dome’s skylight. The daylighting and electric lighting work together seamlessly to provide round-the-clock illumination during the library’s 24-hour operation.

Philips continues to lead the smart lighting revolution by launching ‘Friends of hue,’ stepping beyond light to bring dynamic immersive lighting to the home through your fingertips. A Friend of hue is any product or app, created by Philips or an independent developer that integrates and works seamlessly with the hue lighting system. By introducing Friends of hue, Philips is amplifying the possibilities to feel and experience light – from transporting your TV experience to the whole of the living room making it more immersive than ever before, to bringing stories to life with light, making them more magical.

More than 10,000 high-power LED luminaires from the Osram subsidiary Traxon Technologies have transformed Baku's new landmark, the three Flame Towers, into gigantic display screens. Inspired by the Flame Towers, the slogan of the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in the capital of Azerbaijan was "Light your Fire!" The European Broadcasting Union, which mounted the song contest, was also relying on the know-how of Osram: using special solutions, the company will be providing spectacular lighting effects. "With our lighting expertise, we are making a very prominent mark in the Middle East," explained Erol Kirilmaz, Head of Region Latin America, the Middle East and Africa at Osram.

Office is a place where employees must feel alert and engaged to be at their best, but often overlooked is lighting—a simple factor influencing not only everyday operations but occupant comfort and the effectiveness with which tasks are completed. GE takes a closer look at six trends driving office lighting best practices today, from dimming down over-lit areas to saving watts in parking lots to setting a more productive mood.

With LED lighting market on the rise, international lighting giant Philips Lumileds is officially entering the mid-power LED market in 2013. In response to mid-power LED market demands, the company has added Luxeon 3535 packaging component series to their lighting packages. At the same time, the company is also actively entering low-power market and promoting Luxeon 4014 LED package components. It is estimated Lumileds will continue to release new low-power LED products in the second half of 2013. The trend of big international lighting manufacturers entering the low-mid power LED indicates intensified competition in the LED lighting market.

The 27th Universiade started on July 5th in Kazan, Russia, it impresses people with 3650 Square Meter (sq.m) LED Mesh Displays provided by Unilumin, who also provided the LED display for the 26th Universiade successfully held in Shenzhen China. 2013 KAZAN Universiade is another large-scale comprehensive World Games in Russia after afterwards Moscow Olympic in 1980. It is a good chance to prove the capacity of Russia on holding large sale sports events. Meanwhile it can do provide valuable experience for 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games and 2018 World...

The Swiss Army knife discovers a clever way to add useful functionality to the wristwatch, without sacrificing style or its original purpose, mounting LEDs on the the Victorinox Night Vision watch. The main LED produces a soft, indigo light across the face of the dial for checking the time in the dark—a useful if common feature. The second LED is a little more exotic: Located at the six spot on the watch face is a small, red light that blinks every 10 seconds. For those who take off their watch at night, this is an unbelievable godsend, especially when you're ...

Austria Micro System(AMS), a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, yesterday launched an LED flash driver AS3630 that provides a photo flash light output at least four times brighter than flash systems commonly found in smart phones today. Comparing to today's LED flash drivers in cell phones generally providing a maximum 2A output, the new AS3630 can drive up to 8A current, enabling cell phone cameras to take pin-sharp images of objects even in dark or in fast move. The AS3630 supports substantially faster shutter speeds. At the...

Recently San Francisco designer Vincent Pilot Ng created the new bright LED pet collar. This LED pet collar named Halo Mini. It runs on Kickstarter that looks like something you'd expect to see on a digital pooch roaming the alleys in "Tron: Legacy." The Halo Mini that illuminate a thermoplastic polyurethane fiber optic strip. Battery life runs about 75 non-consecutive hours on flash mode, and 30 consecutive hours in solid illumination mode. It takes two hours to recharge through a regular USB cord. And it is water resistant and reflective whe...

USHIO America’s Solid State Lighting Group, a leader in the specialty and general lighting marketplaces, a few days ago launched its Uphoria™ LED Reflector Lamp series. This series includes 8W R20 lamps, 11W R30 lamps and R40 lamps available in 13 and 18 watts.   Uphoria LED reflector lamps are dimmable, UL Listed, ENERGY STAR approved and offer dramatic energy savings compared to incandescent R and BR lamps. These lamps incorporate high quality LEDs into a sleek, lightweight white reflector that provides energy efficiency...

HELLA has released its first LED floodlight designed specifically for the mining industry. Based on the expertise and skilled LED technology, the new HELLA HypaLUME LED flood light is designed to withstand long time using in rigorous applications and extreme temperature range from 40 °C below zero to 50 °C without decreasing in light output. This revolutionary LED flood lamp incorporates 56 high powered LEDs to provide the brightness over 20,000 lumens. The LEDs have a color temperature of 5700K, offering a near daylight environment and ensur...

It is reported that Panasonic is considering providing OLED TV mass production technology for other TV manufacturers by charging. Panasonic has launched negotiation with Japanese manufacturers at home and abroad, including LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics. Compared with Samsung's technology, Panasonic's technology allows manufacturers to produce OLED TV in large quantity at lower cost, although Panasonic is jointly developing OLED panels with Sony and providing technical information for each other, and Panasonic will offer the Panasonic'...

The HAL-2X150MCE-LED explosion proof portable light tower from Larson Electronics uses two 150 watt LED lamps to produce 29,580 lumen light output that provides 36,000 square foot of coverage. This light tower is U.L. approved Class 1, Division 2 for Groups C and D. The portable light tower is composed of two 150 watt LED lamps installed on top of an aluminum cart, solid rubber wheels, and the extendable center tower. These LED lamp assemblies are sealed with heavy duty gaskets and IP65 rated, making the fixture weatherproof and suitable for use in outd...

As a benchmark to the development of the lighting industry, Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition was recently concluded. Taking an overview of the exhibition this year, it can be learned that the market demand for high-quality, cost-effective lighting products is urgent, many industry insiders believe that to develop upstream core technology will be an important factor for the popularity of LED lighting. Guowei Xiao, CEO of APT Electronics Limited (hereinafter referred to as APTE), said that the LED lighting market will focus on the replacement of the trad...

GE's Albeo LED High Bay lighting at the Dee Events Center in Weber State University (WSU) has been widely appreciated for its lighting quality and energy savings. Comparing to high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting previously used, the Albeo ABHX-Series can save more than 30% energy and is expected to save about $40,000 per year for the university. "HID lighting at the Dee Events Center was one of the single biggest power hogs, and we have no idea to reduce the high electric bills," said Jacob Cain, WSU Energy & Sustainability Ma...

To seamlessly light indoor commercial spaces, Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today two new brilliantly designed enclosed basket fixtures from Columbia Lighting—the Transition® Enclosed TRE (fluorescent) and LTRE (LED). The new commercial lighting standard, the Transition® Enclosed TRE and LTRE bring an exceptional combination of outstanding light output, high efficiency and precise color rendering for a wide range of environments. Plus, reduced maintenance cost is assured with these long-life fixtures that come wit...

In order to show the next generation of OLED lighting innovations, Philips the world's first Lumiblade OLED lighting product on 2013 Taipei International Optoelectronics Show ─ LivingShapes interactive magic mirror. This innovative OLED product combines technological innovation and modern minimalist design, the appearance of LivingShapes interactive magic mirror is just more like an elegantly designed lighting installation, but also it is a sort of interactive mirror, it can sense people's contour and move via Intelligent Sensor technology. When it is hang...

New Japan Radio Co., Ltd. (New JRC) recently has released its new product NJL5303R, a reflective optical sensor combining a green LED and photo transistor into a small COB package which is very applicable to pulse detection. Many pulse testing equipments on the now market, utilize near infrared light to do blood flow detection. The NJL5303R adopts green light with 570nm emission wave length well-suitable for pulse detection. The reflection factor of green light provides higher sensitive pulse detection than the detection employing near infrared light. The NJL...

Dymax introduced a new LED light-curing system—the BlueWave LED DX-1000 VisiCure, which produces visible light energy in a relatively narrow wavelength band centered at 405 nm. This system is significantly superior to conventional lamp-curing systems, which embody in these aspects: cooler curing temperatures for thermally sensitive substrates, lower intensity degradation, more consistent cure results, and lower costs. The system, using an environmentally friendly LED light source, can be configured to operate in different mode to adapt to changing business needs. ...

Xeleum Lighting recently announced its new Athena Series Stairwell LED Light Fixture. It can automatically provide 100% light levels only when the space is occupied, while the space is empty, it will provide 20% light levels at the power saving level of. The combined use of occupancy sensors and LED lighting can obviously reduce energy consumption, with savings of up to 85% comparing to conventional stairwell fixtures. Mehrdad Ghalebi, President of Xeleum said that “One of the unique features of this product is the emergency battery back-up system inside the fixt...

Recently, Elmos announced a non-contact photoelectric sensor chip E527.16 able to recognize simple gestures such as approaching or swiping movements at a distance of up to approx. 25 cm. The chip is based on the HALIOS working principle. HALIOS systems are unaffected by extreme effects of light, variable light conditions, or temperature fluctuations. No mechanical components are required. It is s a full-featured gesture recognition solution, and can be used for all types of lighting applications. The corresponding E527.16 reference design illustrates the opportuni...