Vizio, Panasonic, Toshiba and RCA, and other LED companies are paving the way for CES to tap into their LED market. Vizio is working on its line of LED bulbs for the U.S. which the company says will have a "Vizio price." Panasonic already manufacture LEDs for Japan and Toshiba started selling its A19 LED through BestBuy's Web site last month. RCA said at CES that it will manufacture LED bulbs as part of a larger home theater announcement. It developed a "chip on a board" that uses a single efficient LED light source...

San Francisco based LED lighting company, Elemental LED announced that it is a sponsor of On the Green Road, a recent project by Bay Area-based environmentalists Cece Reinhardt and Brenda Daugherty who retrofitted a 2003 Airstream so that it could operate sustainably off the grid.   Reinhardt and Daugherty aim to travel around the U.S. in the retrofitted Airstream hauled by a bio-fueled Dodge Ram. Elemental LED outfitted the Airstream with LED lighting inside and out, which is integral to keeping the Airstream’s energy-consumption low. Reinhar...

Recently, Lite-On Technology Corp. has signed a partnership agreement with six lighting manufacturers and expected a bright outlook for its sales in 2012. Due largely to the new contract, the company’s CEO, K.C. Terng, estimated its monthly shipments to see a double-digit growth from the 20 million sets of LED lighting products it delivered in 2011. Furthermore, Terng felt that for the LED industry the worst days have gone and the industry will perform better in the new year than in 2011, whether the LED lighting sector or the backlight sector. Addition...

SWITCH Lighting(TM) is to present its SWITCH75 LED light bulb at the CES Innovations Stage Presentation on Tuesday, January 10 at 11am in the Venetian Ballroom A-D, Innovations Showcase Stage. SWITCH is the first manufacturer to announce a family of LED bulbs with 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt-equivalents. SWITCH bulbs last 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs while still providing that same warm glow. They also turn on instantly and can be used in any orientation -- just like the conventional incandescent light bulb.   The company ...

TÜV SÜD America Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of its new 30,000 square foot Energy Efficiency Center of Excellence located just north of Atlanta, Ga. The new NVLAP* ISO/IEC17025-accredited laboratory allows TÜV SÜD to test and certify products to global energy efficiency programs. Services include ENERGY STAR®, Lighting Facts Label, California Title 24/20, IEC 60529/IPXX, IES files, NRTL Certification, CE Marking,ENEC Mark, Energy-related Products (ErP) Directive, RoHS, and CON...

OSRAM's Lab.Me laboratory has designed a new nice concept OLED lamp called the A4,featuring a single round Orbeos OLED lighting panel,which can be folded to fit inside an A4 envelope.

Unique tube assembly accommodates custom lengths for retrofit or new designs TT electronics Optoelectronics Business Unit today announced the OPA779 Series of display lighting for indoor illumination. The OPA779 delivers all of the benefits of LEDs namely energy efficiency, longer life and light quality ¬ in a unique tube assembly that makes it easy for manufacturers to make the leap from fluorescent to more energy-efficient LED based systems. Able to emit a uniform and consistent white lighting pattern within its length, the OPA799 Series provides exceptional...

GlacialLight’s LED Spotlights and Panel Lights have helped Gong Clinic in Kaohsiung go green. By changing their outdoor 250W mercury lights with GlacialLight’s GL-SP60 LED spotlights, the Gong Clinic has seen 76% reduction in their outdoor energy usage for lighting. Additionally, the Gong Clinic has reduced their indoor lighting energy consumption by 64% with the replacement of traditional T8 tubular lights with 10 GL-PL0606A LED panel lights. Including the fact that these GlacialLight LED lights have a minimum life span of 30,00...

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has cooperated with SWALEC to complete a major LED lighting project to further reduce energy consumption at the home of Welsh sport. Over 450 LED light fittings have been installed to replace the old fluorescent lighting at the stadium, expected to reduce energy consumption by 70%. The ongoing maintenance and replacement needs will substantially reduce costs for the stadium.  ...

Lately, American designer Victor Vetterlein has created a fresh LED desk lamp. According to him, the design is inspired by tall wet grass, where the water droplets amplify sunlight and the grass stems bend downward from the weight of the moisture. The stems of FRESH are bendable in all directions to direct prismatic light as a group or individually. The lamp is composed of a rubber coated metal base, neoprene coated solid aluminum arms, and a dimmable LED light source with an acrylic magnifying lens. The power voltage converter necessary for operating the low ener...

Arizona based health science research organization, Science of Light (SOL) has begun accepting pledges for its green schools indoor environmental project - Enlightened Schools: “Smart Lights = Smart Kids.” According to research studies, lighting in schools can dramatically affect children’s health and their ability to learn. Children spend up to 40 hours per week in school buildings. Much of this time is spent under fluorescent lighting that emits hazardous radiation and radio frequency waves that contribute to a toxic “light polluted” indoor e...

Recently, considering a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of LED flashlight sets sold at Target stores for a full refund. Target stores of Minneapolis imported around 55,000 6-piece LED Flashlight Sets from China and sold exclusively from October 2010 through December 2011 for about $10 per set. As the flashlights can heat up enough to pose a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced to recall them. The recall involves 6-piece LED Flashlight Sets with flashlights made of si...

As incandescent bulbs will disappear in the future, the Home Home Depot‘s  electricians are letting everyone adjust the tendency. According to Electrician Steve Benz, they are putting on an energy efficient clinic just educating the customers on the benefits of fluorescent to incandescent and the new products, LED. Fluorescent and LED bulbs can last anywhere from 10 to 40 years. That's much longer than the average 6 months with the old incandescent bulbs. “When these incandescent bulbs get phased out in the next year or so we're going to see the p...

Under a $355,000 pilot project fund by the Federal Highway Administration, the Oregon Department of Transportation has taken a solar-powered navigationa LED lighting system pilot project on the Astoria-Megler Bridge in the summer of 2011. The demonstration project is intended to test the lights’ performance in windy and low-light conditions. “We’re not really worried about the panels charging,” said ODOT project manager Paul Christiansen. “We think that will be fine.” The real concern is how the lights will hold up in 100-mph wind...

Estimates of LEDinside, an industry data source in Taipei, show average selling prices for high-power LED components have plunged 43% in one year. To cite a simple measure, the cost of an LED alternative, now $15 to $25 each, to a 40-watt incandescent bulb could fall to $10 to $15 in coming quarters, according to Roger Chu, research director of green energy at LEDinside. He expects stiff price cuts to continue in coming years. Dropping prices surely hurt manufacturers’ near-term revenues and margins. But they could also spell great news in the long run to acceler...

According to M.T. Chu, director of Electronics & Optoelectronics Research Laboratories (EOL) of the government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan’s LED industry is poised to recover soon. Firstly, in Chu’s opinion, Taiwan’s LED makers’ 60% orders come from the mainland. He ascribed the 2011 supply glut of Taiwan’s LED industry mostly to slower-than-expected global market for LCD TVs lit by LED backlights and desperate production expansions at mainland China’s LED makers. Than...

The Everett School District has led LED revolution. James Monroe Elementary is believed to be the first public school to go almost entirely LED.   Schools are seeing LEDs in a whole new light. Many teachers at the school say the LED light is a "warmer light," better for teaching and learning. One kindergarten teacher said she no longer needs her reading glasses in the classroom. Although LEDs cost more at the front end, administrators say they will make up for it in energy and replacement costs.  ...

Tech Lighting announced its breakthrough on new 13-inch and 19-inch Unilume LED Undercabinet System fixtures for residential and commercial use. The company prepares to showcase the new products at the Dallas International Lighting Market, January 19 - 23. The Unilume features an Intematix ChromaLit(TM) remote phosphor light source to produce an even, glare-free wash of light along its entire length. It uses 30 LEDs per foot, a 98% reflective mixing chamber and a remote phosphor element, which illuminates as a single crisp bar of light. This is both attractive...

A law to phase out incandescent lights has taken effect as New Hampshire’s only electric cooperative announced to become the first utility in the Granite State to replace HPS lighting with LED technology for its outdoor lighting program. Officials launched a new initiative Jan. 1 that’s expected to phase out other types of co-op-owned lighting fixtures within a few years. Currently, the co-op owns about 4,600 outdoor area lights, and has informed companies, communities and consumer-members who lease the equipment that they will have three models of LED fixt...

AWARD-winning LED lighting specialists MHA Lighting has expanded its product range for 2012. Experts at the Greater Manchester-based lighting manufacturers have unveiled their RodLite GRP range which acts as a direct replacement for fluorescent tubes – but has all the benefits of LEDs. The RodLite GRP’s patented LED technology creates glare-free uniformly distributed light and achieves LG Standards Lux levels – but typically uses 80% less energy. It is ideal for any internal or external application where fluorescent tubes are cu...

Scientists at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough on making millions of flourescent E. coli bacteria flash all at once, creating a sort of living LED screen. Jeff Hasty, a professor of biology and bioengineering led the research team in the university's Division of Biological Sciences and BioCircuits Institute.   It took him and his team about five years and a series of papers to develop what he calls the "biopixels" that make up the living LED screen. Firstly, date back to 2008, Hasty and his team published a paper that showed how they built ...

LG Electronics will showcase the world's largest OLED TV with 55 inches they claim at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.   The new LG OLED TV generates the most natural colors of any TV set at a much lower price point than could have been achieved using the standard manufacturing process.   What sets LG's TV picture apart from other OLED TVs is 4-Color Pixels and Color Refiner which work together to generate natural and accurate colors that are sharp and consistent. The 4-Color Pixels feature allows for mor...

Recently, a German company has utilized LEDs to create ‘virtual sky’ of passing clouds for office workers. The Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO replicate the feeling of spaciousness and freedom what we experience outdoors into indoors: a luminous ceiling that extends across the entire room simulates lighting conditions which resemble those produced by passing clouds – conveying the impression that you are sitting outdoors. The innovative luminous ceiling, which was developed by the Fraunhofer researchers and their partn...

Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc., specialized in LED lighting and solar technologies , issued more than 35 million shares of new common stock at the end of 2011. According to a newly released filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, roughly 25.8 million shares were sold to a group of 10 investors at a price of 2 cents per share, raising $516,800 in capital for the company. And roughly 9.3 million shares were issued to two Sunovia employees, including CEO Art Buckland, to satisfy “deferred compensation obligations” worth $186,199. The company pos...

Ecosystem company ZigBee® Alliance, has announced it is developing ZigBee Light Link™, a new open standard designed for LED lighting control, to help manufacturers develop a variety of lighting and control products for the home. According to the company, ZigBee Light Link™ will be as easy to use as a common dimmer switch. Light bulbs, LED fixtures, sensors, timers, remotes and switches built using it will not require special devices to coordinate in a home's network. Consumers will be able to easily install and add extra devices to their home light...

On December 20, Reed Exhibitions held a joint press conference with the China Solid State Lighting Association (CSA) in Jinghua, Taiwan.  The two parties, co-organizers of Green Lighting Shanghai 2012 and CHINASSL 2012, were keen to unearth opportunities for bilateral cooperation and boost development. About 100 people, including representatives from the leading lighting companies and electronics manufacturers in Taiwan, as well as several members of the local trade and mass media, attended the press conference. Industry experts predict that LED and ...

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he has a “spectacular” view of the picturesque Tower Bridge from his office. That view will soon get even better. GE and its UK partner EDF Energy have received a formal approval to install GE’s new energy efficient LED technology and a cabling system to illuminate the 800-foot bridge. The new lighting will replace a 25 year old legacy system and help cut the amount of energy required to light the landmark by 40 percent. GE and EDF, a top supplier of electricity in London, are sponsors of the 2012 Olympic and P...

San Antonio city officials have planned to renovate the old 85,000 incandescent bulbs on the River Walk with nearly 2 million LED lights. Now, nearly 200 trees have their trunks wrapped in thousands of lights. After the city originally planned to keep the trees wrapped year-round, the San Antonio Conservation Society has prompted a move.However, a city forester assured them they wouldn't stay on forever. Nancy Hamner Avellar, president of the society, said "The trees will be unwrapped every three years so there should be no problems with stunting their growth.&q...

Viper Networks, Inc. joined hands with LEDs America, Inc., and recently due to Viper’s escalating sales of the LED-O® lighting products along with a higher sales forecast for the next two quarters, LEDs America is expected to expand their production capabilities with their newest LED-O tube products to replace fluorescent T8 and T12 tubes. LEDs America broke through the 100Lm/watt barrier by establishing a new standard of energy use of T8 light tubes down to a remarkable 14.6 last year. Indeed, the new standard for 4 foot T8 light tubes is now 14.6...

Taiwan state-financed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has set up a partnership Tuesday among local companies to use LED technology to improve the quality and quantity of local agricultural and livestock products. According to the ITRI, it expected to draw participation of over 70 LED companies and the farming sector to help nurture technology application capabilities in old economy industries. Chan Yi-jen, general director of the institute's Electronics and Optoelectronic Research Laboratories, at a press conference, thought that the LED...