The European Commission is about to create significant restrictions on consumer choice by banning a popular range of lighting products. If current proposals by the European Commission are adopted, consumers will no longer be able to purchase any domestic halogen eco lamps after 2018.

New turtle-friendly red streetlight at Rifle Range and Windermere Rds roundabout has causes safety concern as the red light lowers visibility, according to a report from News Mail.

As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques, Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of colored light.

The holiday season is upon us, bringing decorations, festivities and holiday cheer! PECO offers the following tips and suggestions to get in the holiday spirit while staying safe.

In response to feedback from a broad range of stakeholders, the new Zhaga Book will specify a family of six rectangular or square LED modules with different dimensions.

When a city lights up for the holidays some highlight certain districts and neighborhoods embellishing the areas of the city that are the most popular with visitors. However one city in South America goes all out creating extravagant and multicolored installations everywhere you look. If Christmas spirit was measured by the magnitude of lighting decorations Medellin Colombia would certainly be a top contender if not the gold medal winner with its famous Christmas Lights Fiesta- Los Alumbrados.

DEKRA has recently received official recognition from the Department of Civil Defence in the United Arab Emirates as a Testing & Certification Body for emergency lighting. Hence, by working with DEKRA, it is now even easier for manufacturers of emergency lighting products to gain access to the flourishing UAE market.

GlacialLight, the lighting division of GlacialTech Inc., announces a new 24cm square panel light offering up to 1600 lumens of energy efficient LED light in a compact package - GL-PL24-SM. Consuming only 17.3W, the GL-PL24-SM produces bright, uniform lighting over the entire lighting panel in an easy to install surface mount format. The GL-PL24-SM comes in 3 color temperatures and dimming is available.

Technical Consumer Products (TCP) expands its Elite Series LED MR16 line adding product variety, while providing affordable options to meet the most demanding commercial and industrial applications.  

OBP Medical, the leading global developer of single-use, self-contained, illuminating medical devices, today announced that ER-SPEC, the company's industry-leading disposable vaginal speculum with built-in light source, will feature a new and improved light-emitting diode (LED). Custom developed for OBP and ER-SPEC, the new LED offers improved color and brightness, enhancing the already high level of functionality and usability that customers have come to expect.

China’s Nanyang City Center will be installing another 3,000 LED streetlights in 2015, by then the city’s energy saving streetlights will reach 20,000 in total, according to a Nanyang Evening News report. Nanyang will become the first city in China with 20,000 streetlights.

Epistar announced revenue last month was down, due to low blue light LED utilization rate.

Danish city Copenhagen is leading the global front on becoming a green city, according to a report by The New York Times.

Essex County Council in UK will be initiating a pilot LED streetlight project next year, according to a report by Cambridge News.

Worldwide adoption of Acrich technology optimized for various lighting applications.High efficiency, reliability, quality of light and cost-savings are the key factors.

Because food crops are also used for energy production, millions of people are threatened by starvation. Algae could provide an alternative: They only need sunlight to grow, thrive in salty water on barren fields. But it is a major challenge to exactly reproduce sunlight in the laboratory. In collaboration with the Berlin LED manufacturer FUTURELED scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now developed a methodology for simulating all kinds of light situations.

Intermatic, a leader in energy management solutions, today announces the release of its new line of dusk-to-dawn Fix Mount Electronic Photo Controls with electronic switching mechanisms for use in outdoor lighting fixtures.

Osram Opto Semiconductors has introduced a new LED for stage lighting. Compared with previous members of the product family, the new Osram Ostar Stage offers more than twice the lumen output with a component surface that is only 30 percent larger. The new version contains two square-millimeter high-current chips per color that can handle a maximum of 4.5 amps (A) per chip. This will enable moving heads for stage and exhibition lighting to be more powerful and more compact at the same time.

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Using solar-powered electronic deterrent devices, provided by Predator Guard and the Snow Leopard Conservancy, traditional herder families, located in the mountains of central Mongolia, are saving their livestock while simultaneously saving snow leopards.

Do you still remember all those cool gadgets used by Conan Edogawa in Detective Conan?

After a temporary trade suspension last week, Kingsun Optoelectronic released an announcement yesterday reporting the company had acquired 51% shares on three lighting companies and will resume trading today, according to a report of cnstock.com.

Recently, 16 luminaire manufacturers in Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province were sued over patent infringements.Patent trolls have been rampant in the modern LED luminaire industry, affecting many manufacturers, and highlighting the Chinese LED industry’s lack of intellectual property rights awareness and other shortcomings. Patent trolls strange conduct has confused many manufacturers, and made them victims.

Seoul Semiconductor forecasted Acrich LED modules will provide a breakthrough in earnings as demands grow from overseas companies, according to a report from The Korea Times.

Contradicting earlier reports in late October about LG giving up on the costly OLED TV technology opting for the less costly quantum dot technology, a latest CNET report noted the company was refocusing on OLED technology and even dedicating a new division to developing OLED screens.

A research article published 5 December describes a new light-based technology for measuring oxygen content in muscles while underwater, valuable information for competitive swimmers as well as patients using water-based therapies to recover from muscle injuries. Authored by researchers from the University of Essex and Artinis Medical Systems, the open-access paper appears in the current issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

ForceField Energy (ForceField), FNRG, a seller and distributor of energy products and solutions, today announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Bridgewater, New Jersey based Noveda Technologies Inc., a leader in cloud-based, real-time energy and water management systems for Noveda's Intelligent Lighting Management Technology incorporating integrated measurement and verification for use in all LED applications.

The Kerala state government plans to upgrade its traditional streetlights to LED streetlights in 68 municipalities, said Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhi Ali in the Assembly earlier on Monday according to a news report from The New Indian Express.

With immediate effect, the polycarbonate-based ALCOM LDM (Light Diffusion Matt) from ALBIS PLASTIC will be used in the R. CARBONATE ALCOM LED production line at Röber Kunststoffe. This specialist for extruded and transparent plastics, located in Kroppach in the German Westerwald, is now expanding its product line of glazing materials for the lighting sector.

Crowdfunding technology has brought to market many cool and innovative products. But beyond the Pebble Smartwatch or Oculus Rift there are many more products, which will deliver new features that make your life better than it was before, such as the new “Twiink.”