Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I ...

Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining the latest features, privacy tricks, and top recommendations. With degrees ...

LEDs have led to a revolution in lighting. Most of us tend to think of this in specific ways, though. Light bulbs that sip energy and don’t need to be replaced for decades. Christmas lights that never ...

Who would have imagined that this would happen so fast? Years ago, Bill Gates looked at the computer revolution and noted that, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we ...

From Saturday 1 September companies will no longer be able to stock new Halogen bulbs as new EU-wide rules to ban them come into force. Retailers can still sell off existing stocks and you’ll still be ...

We are told that LED-based lighting will provide a very long service life per bulb, but here comes “Sportin’ Life” again (from Porgy and Bess) to put the lie to that claim. (It ain’t necessarily so.) ...

If there is one restaurant design trend that I object to, it's the hanging of dozens of bare old-fashioned bulbs like this in Toronto's Guu Izakaya. They take the most inefficient bulbs one can find ...