Products + Technology

Lighting designer Jim Benya, a regular contributor to Architectural Lighting Magazine (my alma mater) and a thought leader in the lighting community, wrote an excellent article about residential lighting controls for the magazine’s April/May issue, which was released at Lightfair. Calling residential a leader in lighting control, he identifies three ways to approach control: * [...]

OSRAM SYLVANIA has introduced a full line of “True Replacement” LED lamps marketed as direct replacements for standard incandescent, halogen and compact fluorescent lamps in commercial and residential applications. The 8W LED A-Line can replace a 40W incandescent A-line lamp typically found in table lamps, ceiling and wall mounted luminaires. Another common form factor around [...]

The Lightfair Innovation Awards, sponsored by Architectural Lighting Magazine and elumit.com, honored five products out of 218 submissions with the following awards: Most Innovative Product of the Year: Calculite Solid-State Downlights by Lightolier/Philips Design Excellence Award: Kite by Peerless Lighting/Acuity Brands Lighting Technical Innovation Award: Luxeon Rebel ES from Philips Lumileds Lighting Company Technical Innovation [...]

At Lightfair, Philips Lighting unveiled a prototype of a 600-lumen output A-shape LED bulb that can ultimately be used to replace 40W incandescent lamps in general lighting applications in the U.S. and 60W incandescent technology in the European (230V) market. Highly efficient and dimmable down to 10%, the 8W 120V integral lamp is powered by [...]

Énergie Lighting brings the best of international luminaire design to the U.S. One of the company’s new introductions, Flying Surface designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, offers luminous rectilinear forms, which can be mounted in striking patterns on ceilings and walls, or suspended from adjustable cables. The luminaire emits soft, uniform illumination while inspiring creative [...]

“If someone really wanted to do a green household, they could use dimmers, they could use occupancy sensors to turn off the lights in case they forgot to. Control of the light is really the most energy efficient way to gain benefit.” –Howard Brandston LightNOW says: Amen, brother! Click here to read this interview with [...]

A new Freedonia Group study, Advanced Lighting, is forecasting that U.S. demand for advanced lighting products will grow nearly 11% per year to $6.8 billion in 2013. Gains will be spurred by legislation aimed at reducing the energy consumed by lighting. Imports are a significant source of advanced lighting products, and will account for almost [...]

Philips is currently working on transparent OLEDs, enabling OLED panels to function as ordinary windows during the day and become panels at night to imitate daylight or provide attractive indoor lighting. Even during the day, they could function as privacy shields. Transparent OLED panels will be commercialized within the next 3-5 years, according to the [...]

Wow! Yesterday, Royal Philips Electronics unveiled the first-ever OLED interactive lighting concepts–for both consumer and professional use–during Euroluce International Lighting Fair in Milan. The concepts offer a combination of intuitive interactivity, ultra flat shape, soft light-effect and new design possibilities. “Our concepts demonstrate a new light ambiance, novel design possibilities and unique interactivity of light [...]