Products + Technology

MIT’s Media Lab has created the LuminAR, a computerized projector that screws into standard incandescent lamp sockets and can project images onto nearby surfaces, then uses onboard camera technology to make the projected image interactive with human touch. Get the story here.

Toshiba International Corporation’s MR16 GU5.3 LED lamp generates up to 540 lumens at 9.1W, offering a direct replacement for 50W halogen lamps with up to 80% energy savings. The new MR16 is available in 2700K, 3000K and 4000K, and 25 and 35 degree distributions.

Wireless, efficient, color tuning. Wow, and wow. Learn more here.

GE Lighting has teamed up with USG Corporation to bring architects and designers a new monolithic, integrated ceiling and lighting system using cutting-edge products from two leading brands. USG’s Logix Ceiling System and GE’s Lumination LED Linear Recessed Luminaires are designed and tested together, making it simple to construct stylish new office, retail, hotel and [...]

Researchers at Wake Forest University have produced what they say is a new light bulb–shatterproof, flicker-free, highly efficient, long lasting, and with a color quality that matches daylight. The technology is field-induced polymer electroluminescent. This technology has been around a while but has never produced enough light to be competitive as a lamp. The researchers [...]

Sunoptics’ LightFlex system is a high performance prismatic daylighting solution for suspended-ceiling applications. The LightFlex toplighting system uses the Sunoptics Signature Series prismatic skylight, which allows the system to efficiently capture low-angle sunlight and optimize light distribution. A patent-pending optic sphere drives light down through the skylight’s light well, maximizing the system’s light penetration. The [...]

OSRAM is introducing a new OLED luminaire, called the Rollercoaster for its interesting architectural form, that utilizes transparent OLED panels (30 of them, 18-cm x 6.5 cm, operating at 20 lumens/W, with a transmission or transparency of 57%). The company is planning to begin mass producing these panels in 2014. The luminaire has the appearance [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society’s magazine, LD+A, has published the 2012 Progress Report identifying products exemplifying real progress in terms of “uniqueness, innovation and significance to the lighting industry.” Check it out here.

The committee members involved in writing ANSI/IESNA RP-27.2-00, IEC/DIN/EN 62471 (CIE S 009) & DIN EN 14255-1 Photobiological safety of lamps and lamp systems-measurement techniques recognized that lamp manufacturers and distributors, safety engineers and industrial hygienists tasked with optical radiation health hazard assessment require a portable, accurate and cost effective means of metrology. Subsequently, the [...]