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Soraa LED light may dim 50-watt halogen rivals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soraa, a Fremont, California company founded in 2008, this week launched its first product, a light that uses LEDS (light emitting diodes). The "Soraa LED MR16 lamp" is the "perfect" replacement ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

Columbia grads design solar-pillow lights for global village

(PhysOrg.com) -- World populations who live without electricity including those in disaster-stricken areas in the wake of floods, earthquakes, and other calamities are who two Columbia University graduates ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs

University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Kenyan's mission: solar lamps to empower the poor

Evans Wadongo is not yet 25 but has already changed the lives of tens of thousands of his fellow Kenyans living in poor rural communities by supplying them with solar lamps.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5

EGG-energy brings power to Africa with battery subscription service

(PhysOrg.com) -- By applying the NetFlix model of movie swapping to batteries, a team of researchers and students from MIT and Harvard is hoping to provide electricity to thousands of homes in Tanzania. Their ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 2 weblog

Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Study on effect of electricity on liquids bucks conventional science (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether gazing into lava lamps or watching balsamic vinegar mix with olive oil, people have long been transfixed by the seemingly mystical way that droplets of one liquid find each other within ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 4

World's smallest incandescent (nano)lamp with carbon nanotube filament

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics -- two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics -- a team from the UCLA Department of Physics ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Solar-powered LED light made of bottles

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Solarbulb, a new lighting gadget from miniWIZ, doesn't exactly come with all parts included: you have to add your own water or soda bottle. The LED Solarbulb screws onto just about any ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (26) | comments 7 weblog

Scientists predict paradoxical laser effect

New laser-effect, discovered by scientists from the Vienna University of Technology, Princeton, Yale and ETH Zurich: If coupled, lasers can switch each other off, leading to a "laser blackout".

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

New malaria method could boost drug production

German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of treatment for a disease that kills hundreds ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personal solar panel could make electricity more accessible in the developing world (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a child in Mali, Abdrahamane Traore often did his homework by the sooty, dim light of a kerosene lamp.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lightbulbs: The more efficient they get, the more light we use

This is a cautionary tale about a few porch lights. Once upon a time, porch lights had incandescent bulbs. Eventually, many residents subbed them out with those swirly compact fluorescent bulbs, which use a quarter of the ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 20

Care for some light music? LEDs make it possible

(AP) -- Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are starting to become cost-effective alternatives to standard light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. That opens up some interesting possibilities, such as the combination ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2