Inspired by the unmistakable style of the most legendary sports cars, the Carbon Appearance package utilizes a new palette of accent colors to make the 2014 Cirrus no less than stunning on the tarmac. Interior details such as jet black vents, carbon fiber instrument panel lobes and two-tone leather bolster seats complete this exhilarating new look.

Ever wondered what the effect would be of tilting you LED spot light design over a certain angle with respect to thermal behavior? In this whitepaper MechaTronix describe the effect of tilting spot light designs over an angle of 50 degrees and 90 degrees, and compare the thermal results from LED coolers made by extrusion and pin fin technology.

Xeleum Lighting announced the introduction of its new Athena Series LED Stairwell Light Fixture. Specifically designed for use in stairwells that may be unoccupied for long periods of time, this light fixture is capable of reducing energy usage by up to 75% over conventional stairwell fixtures that do not employ LEDs or occupancy sensors. 

Larson Electronics has announced the release of a new explosion-proof LED light designed for portable mounting to ladders, scaffolds and railings for convenient operation. The EPL-JHLP-100LED explosion-proof LED light fixture produces 7,000 lumens and can be easily attached to ladders and scaffolding through the use of an included adjustable mounting bracket.

Cree Edge High-Output TrueWhite LED Luminaire Delivers Breakthrough Color Performance, Helps Improve Bottom Lin. 

MaxLite debuts its DesignLights Consortium (DLC)-qualified BayMAX LED Linear High Bay Fixtures with A-B bi-level capabilities that offer LM-80-tested LED strips in a low profile rectangular high bay housing; dimming models are also available.

With the Acrich kit, customers can now make their own LED lighting modules without the traditional AC to DC converter. Seoul MJT LEDs decrease the component count and shrink board real estate giving designers more layout options, decreased costs and smaller fixture sizes and the Acrich AIC provides low THD, high power factor and dimming functions to control LEDs directly from AC power.

Hubbell Lighting announced the release of a new high-performance, yet incredibly versatile, LED security luminaire—Hubbell Outdoor Lighting’s LED Multi-purpose Dusk-to-Dawn.

LED Canada, Canada’s  wholesaler and manufacture of LED solutions announces distributor agreement with Homegrown Hydroponics for it's Growthstar™ horticultural lights.

An anonymous industry insider recently leaked to The Chosun Ilbo that Apple’s upcoming iWatch will use a flexible OLED display.

Larson Electronics has experienced significant expansion into the film entertainment industry and has again been chosen to supply its extreme duty line of LED lighting products for cinematic use in a major film production. The new Warner Brothers crime drama ‘Run All Night’, starring Liam Neeson and Ed Harris, will begin filming soon, and production crews for the film have chosen Larson Electronics’ line of extreme duty LEDLB-24E-IR-S-940 Infrared LED Lights for use in on set filming.

GlacialLight's Flood Light series now includes models with Standard AC input, DC input, and PIR Sensors. They are suitable for a very wide variety of indoor and outdoor architectural lighting needs, in commercial, industrial and residential environments. Special functions include solar powered lighting and security-enhancing illumination.

Phillips Luxeon® LED-based street lighting is being installed in the Garment District, Manhattan borough of New York City, also known as the Fashion District for fashion manufacturing in the United States, and even the world.

lucy®, a performance apparel company for active women, is pleased to announce a unique, inspirational and interactive light experience along the DCR Charles River Esplanade of Boston.

Cree, Inc. sets a new industry benchmark with higher performance XLamp® XP-G2 LEDs. The latest innovation boasts a seven percent increase in brightness compared to the already industry-leading XP-G2 family. The new LEDs provide lighting manufacturers with an unprecedented combination of light output, efficacy and outstanding reliability, while delivering an immediate boost in performance.

Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University has developed a method to improve the performance of zinc oxide (ZnO) transparent conductive oxide (TCO) as an electrode for short-wavelength nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In particular, the method enhances the light output power of an LED emitting 380nm ultraviolet (UV) at 20mA by 166%.

iMotion control and touch sensors has brought people closer to the sci-fi world in the movie Minority Repot where objects on a screen can be changed and enlarged with hand gestures. The technology has been largely limited to game consoles in the past, but iMotion is bringing the technology from the living room TV screen to computer monitors. The motion control which uses LED sensors for 3D space positioning can replace the mouse and even keyboards, allowing tech enthusiasts to show off their Jedi skills on the computer monitor.

The popular doll gets a wearable technology update with an LED infused LBD.

Fujifilm Corporation and imec have developed a new *photoresist technology for **organic semiconductors that enables the realization of submicron patterns. (For * please see note at bottom for further explanations.)

Taiwanese LED manufacturer Shuoen Tech has developed a graphite heat sink that solves heat dissipation issues in high-powered LEDs in standard MR16 sized products or smaller. The heat sink’s dissipation potential is about 7W and it can control and maintain LED system temperatures at about 80 degrees Celsius. The light has a Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) of 3,000 K and can reach 500 lumens. It has the full capacity to replace conventional 50W MR16 halogen lamps.

Lüme is an electronically infused clothing collection which integrates dynamic, user customizable elements driven wirelessly from a common mobile phone. 

Rigid Industries® LED Lighting Announces Its New and Innovative RDS-Series™ Radius Light Bar as the First Ever Linear Light Bar with an Arc.

Many new and innovative lighting designs have been displayed at this year’s 100% Design Show at Earl’s Court, London. Chief among the inventions is an LED light with a thin butterfly wing-style film – The Air – a circle of light that uses LED lights along its outside rim. Several products showcased at the show have just been made available in the UK.

Recently Philips in Chengdu announced a new masterpiece: the Master LED bulb. The 7W Master LED bulb has a luminosity equivalent to a 60W incandescent bulb with an energy efficiency of around 85 percent. The life span of the bulb is about 15 years with the ability to be switched on and off roughly 50 thousand times. Such a long life span allows consumers to avoid the troublesome task of replacing bulb after bulb.

Larson Electronics has announced the release of an LED roadway lamp designed to provide superior performance and longevity for more cost effective operation. The RWL-LED-20 48 Watt Street Light provides output comparable to a 70 watt HPS lamp, but with much better light quality, enhanced durability, and a 100,000 hour service rating.

Barco is proud to introduce a brand-new LED projector. The single-chip FL33 projector offers training, simulation and visitor attraction industries an affordable, yet durable high-quality product. The FL33 will be presented to audiences across several industry events in the coming months.

One problem in developing more efficient organic LED light bulbs and displays for TVs and phones is that much of the light is polarized in one direction and thus trapped within the LED. University of Utah physicists believe they have solved the problem by creating a new organic molecule that is shaped like rotelle – wagon-wheel pasta – rather than spaghetti.

Investigators at University of California, Santa Barbara, led by material scientists Kristin Denault and Michael Cantore, have devised an alternative means of creating high-power white light by using a different excitation source -- a laser diode in combination with inorganic phosphors, instead of the traditional LEDs.

Making reading in the dark easier is the aim of a new range of attractive LED Glasses being launched by Vision Enhancers at the Young at Heart Show in October. The stylish, comfortable reading glasses provide hands-free daylight quality LED light exactly where it is needed and are ideal for reading, Close Work and Hobbies.

Security surveillance over large distances is now possible thanks to the infrared Dragon Dome LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors. The focused beam of this high-power IRED achieves a range of more than 100 meters. It has a compact design and does not need an external lens. With its wavelength of 850 nanometers (nm), this LED is ideal as a light source for security surveillance tasks such as CCTV (Closed Circuit Television).