Ming the Merciless

Instead of heat conducting metal fins that look like spacecraft from Flash Gordon, HydraLux LED bulbs engage a clear liquid coolant to prevent them from overheating. This form of heat control also provides 360° of small area illumination, which is great task lighting, especially if you are the prop guy in charge of gluing fishing line on miniature spacecraft for a 1930s science fiction serial whose primary special effect is a bunch of shots of steel bucket-like spacecraft flying from the left of the screen to the right of the screen. If you are that guy, then this bulb is awesome.

Let's Get It On

With technology more advanced than the Clapper, Sharp is rolling out a line of LED lamps with remote control light adjustment capability, termed Adjustable Color Function.

Lights! Camera! Inaction?!

I don't think Annie Leibovitz used CFL or LED technology to light this shot. Instead, Mr. Clooney probably beckons the ladies with inefficient incandescent bulbs. He is not unlike the majority of American consumers who prefer this standard for all sorts of home applications. Recently, the New York Times, via their Green Inc. blog, have been putting the quality claims of high efficiency lighting to task. This report looks into the mysterious short life spans of some CFLs, while sometime design consultant to Annie Leibovitz, Don Pfeifer, speaks to the fixture-bulb conundrum in this interview.

LED (Light Emitting Dizziness)

Multiverse is comprised of 41,000 LEDs, all animated and programmed individually, ensuring a unique presentation each and every view.