Products + Technology

Philips Lighting’s Energy Advantage CDM with All-Start lamps is a series of ceramic metal halide lamps available in 205W and 330W—and now, new in 2011, 145W—to replace 175W, 250W and 400W probe-start lamps to save energy and improve color quality. The lamp operates on both probe- and pulse-start metal halide ballasts in any orientation, so [...]

The Lumina panel from Sensitile Systems offers a material that transforms a single integrated LED source into a surface within which thousands of points of light appear to seemingly float. Panels can be cut, shaped and joined to create shapes and objects.

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has published the 2011 IES Progress Report. Each year, the IES Progress Committee offers manufacturers the opportunity to submit significant product developments and improvements to the lighting industry through the IES Progress Report. The mission of the Progress Committee is to keep in touch with developments in [...]

From Philips Lightolier comes the 59W Opalescent LED 2×2 deep regressed luminaire producing 3,549 lumens at 61.5 lumens/W, 80 CRI and 4000K. The low-brightness, fully luminous opening illuminates both vertical and horizontal surfaces in the space. The product features a field-replaceable LED array accessible from below.

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 [...]