This just in from Global Industry Analysts: “The global LED market is projected to reach US$14.8 billion by 2015, driven by escalating demand for efficient and larger electronic displays for TV, lighting fixtures, notebooks and mobile handsets. The focus on energy conservation is expected to promote uptake of LEDs in residential and commercial sectors.” Well, that’s Learn More

Nearly 3,000 cities, towns and municipalities in 83 countries in participated in Earth Hour 2010 by turning off all electrically-powered devices on Saturday from 8:30-9:30pm. Vail, Colorado in particular, showed its support by shutting down all of the LED lights that decorate the trees throughout the main part of town. It’s an important gesture to Learn More

Who doesn’t love dying eggs? It’s a favorite pastime of most youngsters (and even some young-at-heart adults like myself), even if you aren’t Catholic and don’t celebrate Easter, which is just around the corner. But what if you had eggs that glowed in the dark, or better yet, offered cool, colorful ambient lighting? Well, leave Learn More

Unless you’re living under a rock, or you’re superhuman and have never had to go to the doctor and therefore don’t pay attention to news about health care, you’ve heard about Obama’s new health bill. Whether or not you agree with the changes is up to you, and I’m sure you can find lots of Learn More

I’ve never had a “green thumb,” as they call it – even the hardiest house plants seem to whither under my care. So you can imagine I’m quite amazed, if not jealous, of scientists who have figured out how to grow plants in outer space. I can’t seem to do it even when things like Learn More

After 120 years of manufacturing and selling incandescent bulbs, Toshiba is shutting the doors of its incandescent bulb factories on March 19th 2010. In 2008, Toshiba made the decision to focus on environmentally friendly lighting, and began to transition to lighting options that reduced carbon emissions, epsecially LED lights. The company was planning on giving Learn More

If you’re someone who gets stressed out about flying, you should move to Scotland and limit your travel to flights departing from and arriving to the Edinburgh airport. Sound drastic? It won’t after you check out the new lavish buses Edinburgh is providing for passengers! Lothian buses, a Scotland bus company, has launched a new Learn More

Crazy news tidbit of the day: German researchers have found a way to encode wireless internet (WIFI) signals into the visible lightwaves of LED lights. Now, several questions pop into mind when you read a statement like that, the first of which for me was: “What’s the point of doing that? Why would we want Learn More

James Clar is a multimedia artist based in NY who light-centric pieces emphasize the marriage of technology and art. I’m going to give you a little bit of background info on him before launching into the mind-boggling reason why he’s one of the coolest designers out there… Besides his personal works (like the collection Acceleration Learn More

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of electronics stores advertising their inventory of “LED TVs.” As someone who knows a little (not a lot mind you, but a little) about LEDs, this confused me. I mean, I know LEDs can do a lot, but can they actually make up the technological bulk of an entire Learn More