Products + Technology

Lighting Science Group recently announced that its World Bulb—an omnidirectional 60W equivalent A19 LED replacement lamp—has been selected as a 2012 International CES Best of Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree. The Consumer Electronics Association’s International CES Innovations Awards recognize outstanding design and engineering advancements across 32 consumer electronics product groupings—Lighting Science Group’s product was [...]

Visa Lighting has introduced The Shuffle, offering a way to explore form, dimension, color and space using a variety of light sculptures. Interchangeable diffusers—Ellipse, Teardrop, Straight, Switch, Picture Frame and “Vision to Visa”—can be recessed into walls or protrude into the space to provide illumination with an LED light box in white, fixed color or [...]

Hubbell Outdoor Lighting Inc.’s Roadway RM LED Series delivers an LED roadway solution producing 6087 lumens in a 3G-rated traditional cobra-head design. The Roadway RF LED Retrofit Kit provides a versatile solution to upgrade existing 100-175W cobra-heads in any NEMA compliant fixture.

Énergie now offers the highly efficient Enform 1 luminaire from German manufacturer Trilux, which utilizes a single 26W T5 lamp with a lower ballast factor (0.95) to achieve significant energy savings compared to other direct/indirect linear luminaires. Luminaires can be designed to provide 35 footcandles of visually comfortable illumination onto the task plane for just [...]

Columbia Lighting’s Serrano offers a stylish, 3-element diffuser that combines a performance-optimized center optic with two high-transmission, lenticular side lenses to provide high optical efficiency and a batwing distribution. Two center lens options are available to customize the aesthetic. Developed as part of Columbia Lighting’s createchange series, Serrano can deliver energy savings of up to [...]

Litecontrol recently unveiled its new Vertex luminaire, a high-performance indirect/direct pendant fixture sized for T8 lamps and optically designed to provide efficiencies as high as 90%. The Vertex provides a distribution of 65% uplight and 35% downlight. Optional optical components can be added to alter the distribution for 35% uplight with 65% downlight, 20% uplight [...]

Origami is a new energy-efficient and visually distinctive suite of luminaires from Peerless Lighting inspired by the natural repeating crystalline and molecular patterns found in modern architecture, fashion and design. Origami luminaires are 100% indirect fluorescent fixtures that bathe ceilings with expansive, smooth gradients of light and, in turn, uniformly illuminate workplanes, featuring advanced lighting [...]

The 2012 Next Generation Luminaires Solid-State Lighting Indoor Design Competition has officially launched! Written Intents to Submit are due by December 16, 2011, and must be submitted online at www.ngldc.org. (Due to growing interest and participation, Next Generation Luminaires has been expanded to include separate indoor and outdoor competitions for 2012.) Final submission forms are [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed Round 13 of product testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) CALiPER program. A Summary Report containing the results is now available for download on the DOE SSL website. Round 13 of product testing included three primary focus areas: LED and benchmark high-bay luminaires; LED wallpack luminaires; [...]