LED

Four years ago, the U.S. Congress, to great fanfare, passed a law aiming to phase out the incandescent lightbulb in favor of longer-lasting, more energy-efficient alternatives. Recently, to even more fanfare, the U.S. Congress changed its mind. Whether this is good news or bad news is a matter of opinion.

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Those energy-saving little LED bulbs advertised as eco-friendly -- and used in strings of holiday lights and in car headlights -- actually contain toxic lead, arsenic and some other bad stuff, new research shows. Alarming? Sure. But in a surprise twist, a study author says: Buy them anyway.

GE and its products are part of the American iconography. Its founder was Thomas Edison, one of America's foremost thinkers, inventors, and tinkerers. His invention of the light bulb in 1876 marked the moment of GE's genesis. If you can say that light bulbs capture the spirit of American ingenuity,...

A California light bulb maker has been accused of misleading consumers about the brightness and use expectancy of its LED bulbs in a suit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The FTC claims Lights of America Inc. overstated the light output and life expectancy of its light-emitting diode...

The Spyder III Arctic Pro is a hand-held laser that looks remarkably like a lightsaber. That wouldn't be a problem, if it weren't almost as much of a menace as the fictional weapon. And with lasers getting rapidly more powerful and less expensive, regulation is falling behind.

With high energy costs driving up electricity bills and an ever-widening array of lighting choices available at the local hardware store, it can be hard to pick the best -- and cheapest -- lighting option. In today's Savings Experiment, we'll explore the available lighting choices and pick...

California's Lunera Lighting is a cutting-edge LED maker that's using a contract manufacturer in the East Bay, near San Francisco. Its reasons for doing so shed light on some forces that could aid other U.S. manufacturers in the race for global competitiveness.

Deck the halls with twinkling cheer using the latest in energy-efficient lighting products and you'll trim down your holiday energy bill. The variety and versatility of LED and fiber-optic options are better than ever before, keeping valuable dollars in your holiday budget as they provide...

While winding down a busy day of riding roller coasters with some of our friends, one of them who regularly traveled the route home noticed that many of the big homes we were passing no longer had bright lights casting a luxurious glow on them; a change she attributes to owners cutting back on...