Products + Technology

By Clifton Stanley Lemon Series Description In the lighting industry, we suffer from a collective lapse of imagination – where are the real innovations driven by the most compelling capabilities of SSL? We’re still chasing energy efficiency even though lighting long ago became by far the most energy-efficient of all building systems. We have a [...]

The most interesting technology that I saw at LEDucation, last week, was the Airelight LED ceramic luminaires from GoldenEye Lighting. They’re a California-based manufacturer with a novel light source platform. Their luminaires reflect white LEDs within a ¼”-thick aluminum channel that serves as a diffusing chamber. The light emits through a diffuser that is alumina, [...]

pureLiFi, a leading LiFi component manufacturer, launched their latest Light Antenna Module at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The cutting-edge wireless communications antenna is the first of its kind, smaller than a US dime and ready to enable LiFi in connected devices and smartphones at scale. The module will be compliant with the upcoming [...]

A Belgian thermal management company named Diabatix nv is offering custom-designed heat sinks that use artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) generative design to create computer-generated shapes that can be optimized to achieve different engineering goals. Generative design is a process that uses algorithms and machine learning techniques to create and optimize designs based on specified design [...]

Toshiba Corporation has unveiled a new photoluminescence technology, a novel phosphor that delivers excellent solubility in polymers or organic solvents, where it is transparent and colorless under visible light, and that emits persistent red-light emissions under UV light, with excellent color purity and six times the luminescence of current phosphors. These characteristics open up many [...]

A Dutch company, Sunne, designed the Sunne Lamp. Sunne is a self-powered solar light that captures, stores, and produces light indoors without the need for an external plug. By day, it harvests energy from sunlight while hanging in the window and stores it in its integrated battery. As evening falls, it starts to glow, powered [...]

I recently had the opportunity to sit down for an exclusive (not really) interview with the new know-it-all. Arguably, one of the smartest smarty-pants in the world, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an AI chatbot knowledgeable on everything in the world, until 2021. My interview focused on how lighting technology will evolve in the near future. SHILLER: What [...]

Apparently, rope light isn’t just for the hospitality sector and teenagers’ bedrooms. X-Glo North America is providing an industrial version of rope light for mines, tunnels, and oil & gas sectors, with a variety of benefits, including: increasing visibility and safety, operating more efficiently than legacy lighting, easier use, for temporary or permanent applications, certified [...]

The General Services Administration (GSA) Workplace Innovation Lab is a government initiative aimed at fostering innovation and modernizing government services by testing and implementing new and emerging technologies. The lab provides a platform for federal agencies to collaborate and work with the private sector to identify and solve complex challenges facing the government and to [...]