A fairly-new LED light bulb went dark the other day and since the housing seemed to be made of some kind of harmless plastic, I decided to dissect the device to see if I could figure out why it had ...

Buying a light bulb used to be a no-brainer. Now it's a brain teaser; the transition to more energy-efficient lighting means choosing from a dazzling array of products. We've long identified bulbs by ...

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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 ...