It is reported that an Australian venture company called LIFX plans to launch a LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi in this year. This LED bulb connected by Wi-Fi can be controlled via smart phone applications; each bulb is a computer running open source Contiki operating system. A set of bulbs forms a wireless mesh network (wireless mesh network: the core guiding principle of Mesh is to allow all nodes in the network to send and receive signals), and connects with the Wi-Fi signal from outside world. The creative inspiration of "smart" bulb comes from a conv...

Grote now introduces two LED signal lamps specially designed for installing on agricultural, construction, and other off-highway equipment. The new LED signal lamps adopt advanced lens optics to increase installation flexibility, meanwhile with no need for additional circuit boards and LEDs specifically designed for side illumination. The LED fixture includes a double-side amber warning lamp, a single-side red stop/tail/turn lamp, and a control module that connects powered vehicles to towed equipment and application-specific harnesses. The lamps can be installed by bot...

Wavien recently launched its hard-edge LED spot light (TruSpot), which using its patented Recycling Light Technology (RLT) to produce an exceptionally clean and sharp edge profile. However, on the current market, most medium base “spot lights” are actually narrow beam flood lights that produce undefined soft edges, diminishing the highlighting effect. The TruSpot LED lamp provides a true spot light effect without the cost of custom spot light fixtures and installations. It is also designed to accept GOBO image slides in order to be used to project adver...

Recently ShineOn successfully demonstrated its DiscLight(TM) LED Light Engine, which is the world's first wholly integrated LED light engine without any external electronic components. ShineOn's DiscLight(TM) LED Light Engine integrates a high voltage CMOS based driver IC with multiple LED chips on one substrate. Due to its creative control algorithm and special IC configuration, this integrated module can directly connect to 110V or 220V AC power line, and drive the LED array without any excess electronic components such as inductors, ...

Dialight recently announces that its Vigilant Series L-864 LED medium-intensity beacon system has accessed to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for wind turbine applications.   Inside the housing of this beacon system, there is an integrated GPS controller and complete monitoring system to form a more rugged, weather-resistant unit. Global GPS synchronization can ensure precise synchronized flashing of multiple beacons. The precision, patented optics design offers maximum aerial visibility and safety. The vigilant beacon is the latest additi...

  Larson Electronics has released a powerful LED work light, the LED40W-GNM LED High Output LED Light Emitter. It provides users with a powerful and easily adjustable lighting solution for its magnetic base can be firmly stick on the metal surface and its 20 inch long flexible gooseneck can be adjusted to any direction. This LED work light uses a 9 watt LED lamp to produce light output. The 9 watt LED lamp features 3 high output LEDs installed in a waterproof lamp housing and protected by an unbreakable polycarbonate lens. This LED work l...

LG Electronics announced recently that it has started to ship the "Curved OLED TV", a 55-inch OLED TV having a curved screen. The price of the TV with curved screen is about US$13,285, which is about 30% higher than that of the 55-inch OLED TV with a flat screen. The company planned to accept orders for the TV in South Korea from April 29 to June 30, 2013. However, LG Electronics started the shipment of the TV far ahead of schedule probably because Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will reportedly release a curved OLED TV in the near fu...

Larson Electronics has announced a LED work light—the EHL-LED-7W-50LV-AC LED Drop Light—designed to provide explosion proof protection combined with the LED lighting technology. The EHL-LED-7W-50LV-AC LED drop light in demanding conditions offers high output and extreme durability combined with low voltage operation. This drop light features a 7 watt LED lamp that provides 3 times more foot candles at five feet than a 100 watt incandescent lamp. This LED drop light generates less heat than incandescent work lights, has a 50,...

  For IDEC has produced the new mini and long units, its LF1D light units can apply to a wide variety of machine, process and assembly line applications. It claimed that the maximum brightness in their class can up to 67.2 Lumens/Watt. Its LED lights provide lighting brightening up not only the target object, but also a wider area. The new mini unit owns a small size of only 100 x 50 x 25 mm (4 x 2 x 1-in.), making it suitable for small-sized machines where high brightness is needed but space is little. Mini versions use one large LED light engine, rather tha...

  Larson Electronics has released a 12 watt infrared LED light bar that can provide output and operation suitable for medical applications. The LEDLB-4E-IR-M-110V Medical Infrared LED Light Bar provides a powerful and effective source of infrared light that can operate from standard wall outlets and be magnetically installed to metallic surfaces for easy control medical applications. The use of infrared light had showed promising results in a variety of fields including neurology and dermatology, Larson Electronics has introduced its high power infrared...

  DEKOR™ proudly introduce three new waterproof LED Landscape Lights. The three new and unique landscape lights respectively are the Ginny Light, the Puck Light and the Empress Light. They reflect DEKOR™’s constant pursuit to bring “never before seen products” to the marketplace and customers. The Ginny LED Landscape Light has a sleek and fashionable look, and is useful for both pathway and façade lighting. It has a hinged joint allowing a full 180° of articulation. So, the Ginny can be twirled to face com...

JUNE 9-12, 2013, HONGLITRONIC took part IN the 18th Guangzhou international lighting exhibition (10.2 Hall C02). We had showed a variety of LED package products: LED for lighting, LED for backlight, LED plan growth light, LED for stage light. LED for lighting: COB LM & LT series, and SMD2835、3528、3014、HIGH POWER C3535、EMC3535、5730、COB LC002(LM-80)。145lm/W high reflection aluminum PCB LM series COB, anti-Sulfuration design to eliminate the phenomenon of sulfuration, binning area is controlled in ...

At the International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners (IAC&ME) Training Conference, hold from June 23 to June 25 in Las Vegas, FoxFury Lighting Solutions will first time display its LED forensic light sources and portable, rechargeable LED area lights. Coroners and medical examiners sometimes have to perform field investigations at dark places where lighting is absolutely critical. Flood lights or spot lights are needed to examine the deceased while forensic lights sources help find evidence. FoxFury's most beneficial lighting tool&...

Larson Electronics recently introduced the GAU-HB-30X5W-1227 LED high bay light, which is a powerful and rugged industrial lighting product that allows operators to replace their bulky and aging HID lighting systems with a lightweight, efficient, and longer lived one. This LED high bay light pulls only 150 watts at 1.25 amps from standard 120 VAC, but produces the same light output as that of 400 watt metal halide light. The light from this high bay LED light is bright white and even as the metal halide lights, but LED fixtures run with less heat and do not ex...

The Big Ass Fan® Company recently launched the world’s first LED-equipped industrial ceiling fan, which is an all-in-one package and an ideal addition to facilities’ energy-efficient lighting programs. The Powerfoil X LED gives out as much light as a 400W metal halide, while using less than 175W. Its tempered glass lens is designed to provide excellent optical properties which minimize glare. The light is easily installed and ties directly into an existing lighting grid for simple control. The LED is equipped to the Powerfoil® X, which is the...

OSRAM SYLVANIA and Comcast recently announced that the two companies have reached an agreement to offer energy efficient light bulbs that can be controlled remotely through the Xfinity Home platform. By collaborating with OSRAM SYLVANIA, Comcast is further enhancing its Xfinity Home service by providing Sylvania’s new energy-saving LED smart light bulbs that can be installed on any standard light bulb socket, and that can save 83% energy costs and last 17.5 times longer than the lifespan of standard incandescent light bulbs. In addition, by coope...

MAQUET Medical Systems USA yesterday launched its LED concealed lighting system for the Labor, Delivery and Recovery (LDR) room. The retractable LED light sets a new standard in illumination quality, comfort and operational efficiency during the birthing process. The retractable LED concealed lighting system is designed to provide high-quality lighting and reduce clutter in the LDR room. The System offers a lamp holder that can be easily accessed from the ceiling and easily controlled. Furthermore, the unique lighting technology provides shadow-free, quali...

Although all energy-saving LED lighting products are considered “green,” I’ve yet to see a real green bulb that is filled with algae until now.   To meet Hungarian designer Bodonyi Gyula’s concept of green LED lights, the AlgaeBulb was created. AlgaeBulb is a mini oxygen-generator housed inside of a teardrop-shaped LED bulb. As described, it is filled with microorganisms that power the bulb itself. The AlgaeBulb is an exploration into the use of the organisms on a micro-scale in single LED lightbulb that harnesses the green-power ...

SemiLEDs Corp, has released two new UV-LED product series, the 10-watt high-power N9 series, and the 0.17 to 0.50-watt mid-power P50N series. According to proprietary vertical LED structure, both product series are designed for industrial applications including printing, coating, curing, signage and medical or cosmetic uses. The N9 series, placed in a 9mm x 9mm ceramic package, is offered in wavelengths from 385nm to 420nm in 5nm bins. Drive currents up to 1000mA provides typical output of 5000mW of optical power at the nominal 350mA drive rate at 30V. The lamberti...

LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce, is ready to hold a grand and perfect LEDforum 2013 Guangzhou  on June 11 th , to provide valuable advice that can help LED industry players to face challenges in the future.   This time, LEDforum 2013 will provide a perfect platform to interact with global LED market leaders from Cree, Philips Lumileds, Veeco, YunFeng , KLA-Tencor, Epistar, Richtek, Honglitronic, Refond. These leaders will share their insights on the development of the LED market. LEDinside analyst team will put forward Global L...

Lighting Science Group Corporation released its outdoor LED coastal Lights designed with amber-colored light, to improve survivability of sea turtle hatchlings and other wildlife that are sensitive to light or threatened by artificial coastal light. Studies show that turtle eye receptors are easily distracted by wavelengths in the ultraviolet, blue, or green spectrum found in typical white lighting. This bright, disruptive beach illumination can attract wildlife and disturb its natural behavior, so it should be replaced by amber-colored LED illumination. "Sea turtles ...

At SID 2013, an academic conference on display technologies (lecture number: P.140L), Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) and Nippon Shokubai Co Ltd announced that they thoroughly improved the oxygen and moisture resistances of their OLED device. In addition, they utilized the new technology to demonstrate a display by playing a press preview of Open House 2013 May 28, 2013. As the development of flexible OLED displays and OLED lighting devices being advanced, their durabilities remain a big problem for commercialization. To solve this problem, the barrier capab...

Elec-Tech will release its lighting high drive current flip chips in the name of "Aurora Borealis" on Guangzhou International Lighting Fair to be held on June 9th. 1ALED lighting-class high drive current flip chip can achieve 310 lumens under the drive of 1A, and it can achieve up to 230 lumens per watt driven by 700ma current. According to the publicly available information, Philips chip with the same specifications can achieve 300 lumens and 220 lumens correspondingly, and the corresponding data for the United States Cree are 297 lumens and 223 lumens, the lumi...

The LED Light (China), a China-based LED light manufacturer and wholesaler, has recently released a new DALI dimming LED panel light collection to expand its production line. A senior engineer of the company said that DALI is an International Standard (IEC 62386) for the control of electronic ballasts, transformers, LED lights, emergency lights and exit signs in a manageable digital lighting control system. The new DALI dimming LED panel light is designed to replace traditional lighting applications. The new product comes with much originality, whic...

Satisfies Wall Mount and Area/Site Lighting Applications While Providing Increased Efficiency and Savings   Cooper Lighting, a division of diversified power management company Eaton, has expanded its Lumark Crosstour™ Light Emitting Diode (LED) line of wall packs to include the Crosstour MAXX luminaires. Designed to efficiently satisfy high lumen output needs, the Lumark Crosstour™ MAXX LED wall pack and site luminaires deliver up to 7,416 lumens replacing up to a 400-watt metal halide fixture, while consuming only 85 watts and providi...

Cree announced that it had shipped more than two million GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) for cellular telecommunications and provided game-changing benefits over traditional silicon-based technologies, involving higher power, higher efficiency and wider bandwidth. As mobile devices like smart phones are used more widely around the world, telecommunications companies are looking for innovative technologies to enhance channel capacity and the speed of wireless systems, while simultaneously lowering power consumption of tran...

According to the reports from foreign media, europium nanocrystals could become the missing ingredient lowering the production costs and enhancing the energy-efficient of white LED. Reported that Scientists Budai is working with a group of scientists from the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratory to study a set of new crystals, this kind of crystals can produce right mix color white LED and other purposes require. Experts from the University of Georgia consider the nanocrystals made of europium oxide and aluminum oxide powder as raw materi...

In order to make plants grow faster, the ancients pull seedlings, and the modern people apply pesticides, but Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd utilizes lights. On the Cross-Strait Fair for Economy and Trade (CFET) to be held on Jun 18 of this year, Xiamen Guangpu Electronics Co., Ltd will carry this self-developed LED Plant Panel Light to debut Fuzhou. As we all know, the growth and development of plant depend on photosynthesis. Photosynthesis closely relates to the light quality, while the light quality is very easy to combine and control, which is one o...

As the world's largest LED lighting and exhibition event, the 18th Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "Guangya Exhibition") will be grandly held at China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou from June 9 to 12, and the scale of exhibition reaches 220,000 square meters.  The Guangya Exhibition sets up three exhibiton areas, namely the commercial lighting brands pavilion, professional lighting brands pavilion and outdoor lighting brands pavilion. Committed to high power outdoor LED lighting, Spark...

TSMC Solid State Lighting (TSMC SSL) announced to release TH3 and TMx series products and will showcase their applications in 2013 Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Based on the company’s flip chip technology, superior reliability of the two products enable customers develop high-end lighting product. TH3 is a common 3030 package with power up to 3W capability. The unique feature of no wire bonding is free from loose electrical contact during the high current operation. Also, since the chip bonded directly on lead frame, TH3 has very low ther...