GE is reported to showcase its overhead LED light fixtures to replace florescent tubes with thin, flat plates of light next week.
 
It’s said that the company will announce the line of LED Edge lighting fixtures that can be suspended from ceilings or recessed flush with ceiling tiles. The first of the products, a square troffer fixture design for recessed lighting, will be available by the end of this year. More stylish suspended fixtures are slated for release in the first half of next year.
 
According to GE, the four fixtures are built around coin-size LED light sources and a textured optical screen made by PC memory company Rambus to disperse light. The effect is to spread light across the full surface of a flat screen. Light can also be focused on specific areas.

The lights will have a color rending index over 80 and last 35,000 hours, compared with 20,000 hours for traditional fluorescent fixtures. In addition, the fixtures free from mercury, lead, or glass, and materials from the fixtures can be recycled.

Plus, Cree introduced its own line of overhead LED lights for office use last month.