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Products + Technology

Product Monday: Tivoli’s VAST EX Grazer

  Another interesting find at LEDucation, last month, was Tivoli’s VAST EX Grazer, a high‑output exterior linear system with articulated beam control. The newly launched outdoor solution delivers precision aiming, design flexibility, and durability for demanding architectural applications. VAST EX Grazer is designed for façade grazing, wall washing, and large-scale exterior illumination, and is available [...]

Events

ALA Annual Conference Set For Tucson Resort In September

  The American Lighting Association is holding its annual ALA Conference, September 27–29 in Tucson, AZ. The conference will be held at The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa. Three national keynote speakers will discuss: Where the economy is heading What AI really mean for your business How to create customer experience that leaves an [...]

Products + Technology

Genlyte’s New Lumec Ancestra Color Changing Post Top

  Another innovative find at LEDucation, earlier this month, was Genlyte Solutions’ new Lumec Ancestra Color Changing Post Top luminaire. The product incorporates Color Kinetics sources to provide a splash of changeable color to streetscapes, campuses, and other post top applications. Adding color changing capabilities to Lumec post tops creates a visually distinctive and inviting [...]

Codes + Standards

5 New, Revised, Or Reaffirmed IES Standards

  The IES has approved five new, revised, or reaffirmed lighting standards: ANSI/IES RP-27-26 Recommended Practice: Photobiological Safety for Lighting Systems Updates include new definition (angular subtense), removal of propagation of uncertainty for wavelength accuracy, improvements to measurement metrics, updates to the relative spectral weighting function for Assessing Actinic Radiation Hazard, and new equations for retinal [...]

Products + Technology

American Lighting’s 6-Channel RGB+Wide Range TW Tape Light

  Another interesting trend at LEDucation was the growing sophistication of RGBTW light sources. These are color changing, tunable white, and everything in-between! 5-channel RGB-WW-CW has been around for a while, but American Lighting just introduced its Trulux 6-channel, RGBWWW tape light. It is a DMX-controlled tape light combining RGB color mixing with wide range [...]

Products + Technology

Product Monday: Optique Lighting’s Diminutive Velino.0

  One of the trends that was still evident at LEDucation, earlier this month, was continued miniaturization of luminiaires. A good example that I saw was the new release of Velino.0 by Optique Lighting. They claim that it is the slimmest, low UGR, architectural luminaires on the market, and I believe them. The family features [...]

Awards, Products + Technology

IES Now Accepting 2026 Progress Report Submissions

  The IES is now accepting submissions for the 2026 IES Industry Progress Report. The IES is seeking significant new advancements in lighting products, research, publications, and design tools from the past year. The mission of the Progress Committee is to keep in touch with developments in the art and science of lighting throughout the [...]

Legislation + Regulation, Sustainability

CA’s Recycling Symbol Law Impacts Products & Packaging

  California’s SB 343 law creates a new “accurate recycling labels” framework meant to reduce misleading recycling claims and make packaging labels better reflect what is actually recycled in the state. The core idea is that companies can’t use the chasing arrows symbol, or any other recyclability indicator, unless certain criteria are met, and those [...]

Dark Sky, Legislation + Regulation

New York State’s Proposed Dark Sky Bill

  LightNOW has already written about Maine’s new strict dark sky law, and Hawaii’s proposed dark sky bill. Here is a look at New York State’s proposed dark sky law. New York State’s proposed Dark Skies Protection Act (Assembly Bill A4615 / Senate Bill S5007) is part of a broader effort to reduce light pollution, [...]

Agriculture

Recent Trends In Horticultural Lighting

  Recent horticultural lighting trends are centered on smarter LED systems, more precise spectral control, and tighter integration with greenhouse automation. The biggest shift is away from static lighting toward dynamic, data-driven lighting that can adjust intensity and spectrum in real time based on crop stage, natural sunlight, energy prices, and climate conditions. LED Becomes [...]

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Events

ArchLIGHT Summit
ALA Conference 2026
NEMRA Lighting Summit 2026
DLC Summit 2026
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ArchLight Summit banner: Dallas Market Center event on Sept 15–16, 2026, focusing on Commercial Lighting Expo & CEU Platform with registration prompt.

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