LED lights are the latest thing in home lighting, using less energy and lasting longer than their incandescent cousins. How do they work? Find out in the latest installment of Appliance Science.

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...

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The typical household LED light bulb is advertised with a 25,000 hour lifespan, which would be more than 20 years at 3 or so hours of use per day. That sounds great, but it seems that a good number of ...

Upgrading the lighting on your Chevy Silverado is something many truck owners think about after a few years. The stock ...

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Upgrading your light bulbs is the easiest and smartest way to help reduce your home's carbon footprint. Here's the math. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based ...

The SlimStyle’s radical design allows for continuous operation without the need for aluminum heat sinks, one of the major cost drivers of LED bulbs. Philips At the beginning of 2014, the incandescent ...

LED bulbs are a far more cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly option than traditional incandescent bulbs. With a life expectancy of 20 years or more (25x longer than incandescent), the energy ...

Thomas Edison filed a patent for his electric lightbulb in 1879. Somehow we’re still tinkering with it. The latest leap forward: Tala’s new LED take on Edison-style lightbulbs—ubiquitous in ...