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Researchers Create New Path To Highly Precise NIR LEDs
Researchers have developed a new way to make ultra-narrow band, near‑infrared LEDs by “electrically powering” materials that normally do not conduct, using attached organic molecules that act as molecular…
Product Monday: Data Center Inside Solar Streetlights?
A British company, Conflow Power Group, proposes to cut the environmental footprint of artificial intelligence by turning streetlights into off-grid, solar-powered mini data centers using Nvidia hardware. It frames this…
Fluorescent Lamp Bans In 4 States & Canada Effective 1/1/26
Fluorescent lamp bans have been passed in ten US states, and four of those states have effective dates of January 1st, 2026, for at least one category of fluorescent…
How Color-Tuning Brings Balance & Beauty To Exterior Design
By Valeria Palacios Klein CLD, Senior Lighting Designer at Coastal Source When people hear the phrase colored lighting in outdoor spaces, it’s likely they immediately think of bold, oversaturated…
7 Trends Redefining Buildings & Energy Management in 2026
By Dan Hollenkamp, COO at Toggled Dan Hollenkamp, COO of Toggled, shared the following seven trends that he believes will redefine buildings and energy management in 2026: 1) Smart Buildings…
Refinements to the Worthing Relationship – A Quantum Version of Wien’s Displacement Law
By Eric Bretschneider, Ph.D. Abstract Wien’s Displacement Law is a simple equation that allows calculation of the peak wavelength for a black body light source as a function of…
2025 State Of The Cannabis Lighting Market Report Released
Cannabis Business Times in partnership with Fluence have released the 2025 State Of The Cannabis Lighting Market Report. The report describes a decade-long shift toward LED dominance in cannabis…
55% Of US Now Has Horticultural Lighting Rebates
Horticulture lighting has rapidly evolved from a niche application to one of the fastest-growing sectors in the lighting industry, driven by falling technology costs, improved efficiency, and broader use…
6 New Lighting Standards: Zigbee, Recolight, CIE, & Zhaga
Zigbee 4 And Suzi The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) has released Zigbee 4 and Suzi to standardize secure, interoperable, and scalable IoT connectivity. These standards aim to make enterprise IoT networks…
AI Replaces Keyword Search With Conversational Discovery
AI is rapidly becoming the new default interface for internet search, shifting discovery away from short keyword strings toward rich, conversational exchanges that feel more like dialogue than database…
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