LED + SSL

BEGA/US has introduced a series of new LED Wall Washers in two sizes, 20W or 40W LED modules, and symmetrical or asymmetrical distribution of light. The luminaires can be installed in any orientation. Click here to learn more.

The LED Industry Directory is LED Journal’s annual reference guide to LED manufacturers and suppliers. The 2010 edition contains listings of manufacturers and dealers of LED products in addition to service providers, and is available in hard copy ($195 plus $22 shipping if outside U.S. borders) or PDF ($225). Click here to order.

Stray Light Optical Technologies recently introduced a new street light designed around LUXIM’s Light Emitting Plasma (LEP) technology. The luminaire is the first of Stray Light Optical’s Tesla series, the company’s portfolio of energy-efficient solutions for general lighting. The occasion marked the first public deployment of LUXIM’s LEP technology for streetlighting applications. The tic-tac-sized light [...]

Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating LED display that uses persistence of vision to create glowing 3D images. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

Architectural SSL recently published an article I wrote about Rock Sugar, a new 7,000+ sq.ft. Los Angeles restaurant offering Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Indonesian and East Indian food in opulent surroundings. The particular demands of the lighting design, coupled with strict requirements imposed by Title 24, disqualified many conventional lighting methods. Lighting designers Focus Lighting turned [...]

Lithonia Lighting has announced the introduction of RTLED, a volumetric-distribution recessed luminaire that delivers white general lighting. The luminaire is powered by an advanced Samsung LED light engine to deliver high color rendering (80+ CRI), 3500K color temperature, and full range dimming with 0-10VDC control, enabling the luminaire to adjust light output to eliminate the [...]

The New York Times’ green blog has published a great interview with Don Peifer, CTO for Lunera Lighting, in which he says LED companies should stop chasing incandescent sockets and create innovative fixtures enabling the technology to truly take hold. Check it out here. Hat tip to Randy Smith at the Lighting Design Lab.

Cree, Inc. has announced a new high-output 6-inch LED downlight featuring Cree TrueWhite Technology. The LR6-DR1000 delivers 70% more light than the original LR6 and features an aesthetically-pleasing, 20-degree shield angle for lighting designs that require greater brightness control. Using only 12.5W to deliver 1,000 lumens, the LR6-DR1000 has a high luminaire efficacy of up [...]

Fallon Luminous Products Corp. has announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has reaffirmed its April 20, 2010 decision in favor of Fallon’s appeal of a patent infringement suit brought by iLight Technologies. The Court denied iLight’s request that the District Court’s judgment be reinstated and ordered that [...]