NEC Lighting Ltd just announced at Light Fair Japan 2013 that it has hit a new industry record for OLED efficiency at 156lm/W. This is trumping the announcement last year from Panasonic for an efficiency of 142lm/W. The achievement was made in…
XM-L2 is Cree’s new highest performing LED ever
Cree has been on a tear of late updating their workhorse LEDs to silicon carbide substrates, and while the efficiency gains of LEDs like the XP-E2 and XP-G2 have been incremental, the new XM-L2 takes things to a whole new…
New color line-up added to Cree XB-D and XM-L series
While we are reporting this a few days later, we are happy to see that Cree announced new color options for the XB-D and XM-L series of LEDs on the 50th birthday of the visible light LED. Adding color options…
The LED as we know it turns 50 today
50 years ago today, Nick Holonyak Jr. demonstrated the first visible light LED to the management of General Electric. They were in the race to create an incandescent bulb replacement even back in 1962, but obviously, it’s taken a little…
XP-E2 LED continues Cree’s efficiency and low cost upgrade strategy
As expected, Cree is continuing to upgrade it’s workhorse lineup of LEDs with their new silicon carbide technology by announcing the XP-E2 white LEDs. Much like the XP-G2 before it, the updated LED is showing improvements in overall efficiency and…
Hands on with the MakersLED DIY heatsink & fixture
The MakersLED DIY heatsink kits have been out on the market now for a few months, and are getting very well received by the public so far. With a very reasonable price, multiple length options, and a ton of well…
Cree XP-G2 LED is now officially official
Well, it looks like we jumped the gun a day early with the preliminary announcement of the XP-G2, the successor to the venerable XP-G. Cree has let loose the datasheets for the new LED today, so we can fill in…
XP-G2 is Cree’s update to the venerable XP-G LED
Cree is about to officially anounce the XP-G2, the successor to the long time favorite XP-G. Some of the details are still up in the air, but the big changes here are increases in efficiency, putting it on par with…
Wonder material graphene could be in your future reverse osmosis unit
You may have heard of graphene before as the material that is supposed to make everything better in the near future. Most of the promises are still a long way off, but one near term solution may actually end up benefiting us…
Let these Electric Imps into your house
There has been a ton of talk over the years about home automation, with various companies making big claims about how simple it will be to implement, including massive heavyweights light Google. We haven’t seen much evidence on any of…