Products + Technology

The Wall Street Journal also reported today that light is increasingly being used to diagnose and monitor diseases such as diabetes, highly desirable because it is non-invasive. Light is already used for eye surgery, dental work, cosmetic skin work, combating SAD, hair transplantation and other uses. Get the story here.

Fail-Safe’s SGI Series of 2×2 and 2×4 general luminaires satisfies the demands of healthcare facilities design by providing a completely sealed luminaire with an architectural styling. Designed to meet IP standards, the shallow, enclosed housing and sealed door protect against infiltration by airborne bacteria. Check it out here.

e:cue Lighting Control, an OSRAM company, has introduced Light Drive Elite, its first standalone DMX controller and user interface for dynamic RGB LED lighting, which does not require software programming. Users can control intensity, color and speed as well as set up their favorite color-changing effects through Light-Drive Elite’s glass interface with touch-sensitive keys and [...]

Here’s an interesting design for a solar lamp that collapses down for easy travel. Craziest Gadgets has a description here.

a•light, a division of Amerillum Corporation, has introduced aire1, a vertical ground-mounted architectural bollard that provides a continuous line of LED non-glare ambient and accent illumination up to 8 ft. high. Check it out here.

WattStopper recently introduced Digital Lighting Management, a distributed lighting control system offering the benefits of energy code compliance, higher energy savings than conventional controls, and high return on investment in new and existing buildings. With DLM, each room or space has its own control network where room controllers, switches and sensors are simply connected as [...]

NOTE: The bad link at the bottom has been fixed. The Lighting Research Center‘s DELTA program recently field tested photovoltaic-powered LED luminaires installed at three public, outdoor sites in the Catskill Mountains region of upstate New York. The luminaires were prototypes designed by Sullivan Renaissance, Philips Hadco and SolarOne Solutions. Click here to learn the [...]

Manufactured in Italy and previously available in the European market, the Omikron line is now available in the USA and Canada exclusively through YLighting. Check it out here.

Kim Lighting recently introduced WARP9 LED, a low-glare, high-performance outdoor area light utilizing LED technology. Using a patented optical system, the luminaire can provide wide-throw ground plane illumination to maintain spacings without excessive glare. The product is made from more than 90% recycled materials; the housing, LEDs and drivers contain no mercury; all electronic components [...]