Industry News
Product Monday: Philips Hue White
Philips Lighting has expanded its Hue connected lighting offering with Hue white ambiance. These lamps can emit every shade of white light, from cool daylight (6500K) to warm white light…
David Shiller on Strategies in Light
David Shiller, President of Lighting Solution Development, LLC, recently blogged his top 11 takeaways from the 2016 Strategies in Light Conference. Socket saturation, OLEVs, price erosion, mini luminaires, R9 and…
Trends in LED Optics
Below is my lighting column published in the June issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The large majority of commercial building luminaires feature some type of optical system that…
Architecture Billings Index Shows Continued Modest Growth
After beginning the year with a decline, the Architecture Billings Index has posted three consecutive months of increasing demand for design activity at architecture firms. As a leading economic indicator…
Lightning in a Bottle
GE shows us how it’s done. This video shows off the company’s R&D capabilities. Scientists generated 2 million volts of electricity using a Marx generator. Super capacitors, capable of emitting…
GE’s Jason Brown on Lighting and the Industrial Internet of Things
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Brown, Manager, Strategic Solutions for Current, powered by GE. The topic: lighting and the Industrial Internet of Things. I’m happy to share…
Product Monday: Irideon FPZ by ETC
Based on the Source Four Mini LED platform, ETC’s Irideon FPZ combines the optics and features of Source Four into an industrial design while bringing new capabilities to the table.…
Made of Light Too Video Series
Between 2003 and 2008, lighting design firm Speirs + Major produced a traveling exhibition, lecture series and book, “Made of Light – The Art of Light and Architecture.” In November…
Tunable-White Lighting
This article about tunable-white lighting was originally published in tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. The color appearance of light sources—whether warm or neutral or cool—can have a big impact on…
Linear Fluorescent Lamp Indexes Continue Year-Over-Year Decline
NEMA’s linear fluorescent lamp shipments indexes continued their year-over-year decline in 2015Q4. After declining for seven consecutive quarters, the index for T12 lamps posted a 4.2% quarter-over-quarter increase, but declined…
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