Besides obscuring the stars, light pollution can also disrupt the reproduction of light-sensitive animals. French scientists have shown that light pollution can override the natural reproductive cycle of some animals, making them sexually active out of season.

Access Fixtures is expanding its line of parking garage lighting by adding products that utilize the latest lighting technologies and feature durable housings. The new luminaires use LG LED modules, Cree LEDs or Osram Sylvania induction components. Employing long life lighting components and options like dimming, step-down dimming, occupancy sensors, and photocells for daylight harvesting, these new luminaires effectively provide light and enhance safety throughout any parking garage while reducing energy use and maintenance costs. 

Three college sports and entertainment venues at Ohio University, Union College and the University of British Columbia have seen the future of lighting by joining the growing legion of North American higher education institutions to make the switch to illuminate their arenas with an innovative new LED lighting system from Ephesus Lighting. 

A new 90m long pedestrian tunnel with LED integrated art-wall will open at King’s Cross at the end of June. The tunnel has been designed by Allies & Morrison and will link St Pancras International and King’s Cross St Pancras Underground stations to King’s Cross’ public spaces, restaurants, offices and homes, via One Pancras Square. 

Royal Philips unveiled the largest project ever realized using its Color Kinetics connected architectural lighting technology – a media façade and lighting design for the newly built VEGAS Crocus City shopping entertainment mall in Moscow. 

Artificial lighting is threatening the sea turtle population. After emerging from their shells in the wee hours of the morning, sea turtle hatchlings instinctively find their way to the sea by the light reflected on the ocean. Modern society is now posing a threat to their survival as the brightest light is no longer coming from the ocean, but from hotels and shops along the ocean front.

Students at Northeastern can display their feelings though a three-dimensional LED matrix set up on the side of Ryder Hall through a voting system. Students can select red for anxious, purple for exhausted, or blue for relieved.

When the Los Angeles Dodgers play the first two games of the 2014 MLB regular season against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Sydney, Australia, the players will be aided by some of the same technology and expertise that NASA relies upon for its astronauts.

A Malaysian city, Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ), new building standards will make LED lighting mandatory in new commercial buildings or mixed developments to meet the city’s goal of becoming a green sustainable city by 2030, according to a report by The Star.

Not content with boring black boxes that light up, tech-savvy airfy announces a new way to access WiFi easily, securely and stylishly with the airfy router, the world's first smart WiFi hotspot. The trendsetting company has just launched an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of 20,000 dollars to bring the device to market by September 2014. While other routers sit in the corner to do their jobs, the airfy takes center stage with its modern and fresh design complete with LED lights that can be configured for a variety of notifications.

The GER MOOD SWEATER  interprets emotions and displays mood instantly as an interactive light display.

Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic may be the oldest orthopaedic practice in New Connitecut, U.S., but with the opening of their new 98,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art practice headquarters and surgery center in northwest Raleigh, they’ve stepped into the 21st century in a big way.

Yesign introduces a new watch called “Eye of the Storm” which paired with LED lights creates an innovative and unique design. Inspiration for the watch comes from the calm and quiet of the core of a storm. The watch was originally designed for the RedDor design award.

French smartphone device startup SmartMobilAccessoire is working on a new product called the Biiwatch. It’s a watch-like device that’s worn around the wrist and designed to let you control your smartphone to snap photos. The startup says that this upcoming device is “the first iPhone wristhand remote control for photo and video.” If you find yourself constantly out and about, the accessory will give you an easy way of triggering your camera’s shutter without having to touch the phone itself.           ...

IXYS Integrated Circuits Division (ICD), Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation (NAS: IXYS) , announced the immediate availability of theIX9908 High-Voltage, Dimmable LED Driver with PFC Control. The IX9908 is a quasi-resonant controller that is optimized for dimmable off-line LED lighting applications. The IX9908 incorporates a precise pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit and cycle-by-cycle peak current control to support flicker-free, phase-cut dimming with a high power factor correction (greater than 98%). Utilizing IXYS I...

GlacialLight, a division of the Taiwanese technology manufacturer, GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality. The redecorated indoor facilities of Dongshan Expressway Service Area in Southern Taiwan, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, are an excellent example of the benefits of GlacialLight LED lighting. The redecorated indoor facilities of Dongshan Service Area were opened to th...

Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) will replace all 6,050 lighting fixtures in both parking structures and increase the number of fixtures by 19% while still saving 66% on its annual elect ric bill by switching to LED lights. The project, approved by the Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) board this month, will replace the 1,200 existing 210-watt metal halide fixtures in the Blue Deck with 2,400 repositioned 80-watt LED fixtures, set at a maximum of 60 watts. All 4,800 existing 210-watt fixtures in the McNamara Terminal Parking Structure will be replac...

Aylesbury Vale District Council says the 20 LED lights along the main footpaths will bring increased energy savings. And the lights will be dimmed during off-peak periods, which maximize the savings. The council allocated ￡60,000 from the funds for redeveloping the Aqua Vale Swimming and Fitness Centre to purchase and install the LED lights. These LED lights are part of the overall redevelopment of the site with a children’s play area and sports zone, larger grassed areas and footpaths, tree planting, and a new main entrance opposite the High Street already c...

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...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday its technical team developed a solar lantern with high powered LED lights that also operate as a charger for small electronic appliances, which are especially carried by people living without electricity. At about 15 cm tall, the newly developed device which is equipped with a solar panel, LED light bulbs giving around 100 lumens per watt and a rechargeable battery in addition to a USB port, will be small enough to place in the center of a table or hang from a bag without noticing it's there until they t...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The addition of LED lights along the New York State Thruway and Canal system should cut electric costs by 20 percent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. The lighting upgrades should also improve visibility along the state's Thruway and Canal system, the governor said in a news release. "As we celebrate Earth Week, New York is continuing to move forward with efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce costs in state government by adopting new green technologies," Cuomo said. "The Thruway’s LED lighting project is one e...

The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer,  announces its Fourth Annual Eco Options Christmas Light Trade-In event. New this year, the Company has increased the savings, launching a tiered coupon program ranging from $3 to $5 off select energy efficient lighting. Now through November 13th, customers can bring in their old working or non-working Christmas light strings to be recycled and receive a coupon for up to $5 off the purchase of energy efficient seasonal LED string lights.   Through this exchange, customers can receiv...

A smart office is one which uses less energy, where wireless sensors placed on workstations and personal computers "talk" to each and relay information about the room back to a computer or base station, which then "tell" individual LED lights installed on the ceiling how much to light up, dim or switch off. Such a smart grid lighting system can result in energy savings of some 45 per cent compared to conventional fluorescent lighting. Yesterday, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) announced a tie-up with JTC Corporation and Royal Philips El...

The Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority Thursday announced a grant of $120,645 to Ursinus College for replacement of parking lot and walkway lighting. The Collegeville, Montgomery County, school will replace metal halide and high-pressure sodium bulbs with LED lights. The move is expected to save the college $20,000 a year in electricity costs and reduce carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions produced in energy generation, the PEDA said. Ursinus will match the grant with $41,514 in spending. Statewide, PEDA announced $3.7 million i...

The New York State Public Service Commission has approved a new lower-priced tariff option for Central Hudson Gas & Electric that would encourage municipalities to install LED-based street lights. Most street lights are not metered for actual power usage. The new tariff would allow the utility to correctly calculate the energy used by LED street lights and a municipality to pay a lower price for energy used for lighting.

In 2002, right after 9/11, eight-year-old Veronica Granite from New Jersey began a petition drive to illuminate her hometown bridge with red, white and blue lights. She had recently seen tricolor lighting atop the Empire State Building during a visit to Liberty State Park and thought the Bayonne Bridge should be similarly decorated in patriotic lights. Bayonne Bridge Lit with Patriotic LED Lights custom designed by LEDtronics, Inc.

The Lighting Change is Anticipated to Save Chili’s $3.7 Million Per Year Brinker International, parent company of Chili’s Restaurants and Maggiano’s Restaurants, has recently installed Eco-story LED lighting (www.eco-story.com) as part of a re-lamp project in all of its corporate restaurants. The project, which involves installing 125,000 LED lamps in the interior and exterior of all 827 corporate restaurants, will be the largest U.S. roll-out of LED lamp technology to date.

To prepare for Filipinos during monsoon season,Akari introduces new multi-functional lights. The collection features the LED rechargeable emergency lights, rechargeable LED lamp with fan and radio, 12-inch rechargeable AC/DC fan, and 14-inch rechargeable fan with LED light. The AEL-969, high-powered LED rechargeable emergency light has a built-in AM/FM radio and mobile charger perfect for emergencies.

Luminus Devices, developer and manufacturer of big-chip PhlatLight® LEDs, today announced that it provides the light source inside Martin Professional’s new MAC 350 Entour™, the world’s first high output LED-based, mercury-free, profile light. The MAC 350 Entour comes equipped with seven CBT-90 white PhlatLight LEDs and has a total light output of 6,500 lumens, light levels previously achieved only with high energy discharge lamps. The MAC 350 Entour has a lifespan of more than 25,000 hours. 

When the Spokane Public Facilities District (SPFD) began to look for lighting alternatives for a new parking lot facility in the downtown core, solar LED lighting was top of mind. The central location of the parking lot in combination with its proximity to the INB Performing Arts Center, a major new facility in town, gave the SPFD the perfect opportunity to showcase its continued movement towards renewable energy alternatives.