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High ceilings can make a residence feel open and airy, but they often come with difficult-to-reach light fittings. To better deal with that, mattwach built a motorized light bulb changer which makes the job much easier.
Light bulb changers already exist, but they typically need to be used on-axis with the light fitting, which for chandeliers and many other lights, can be difficult. Instead, mattwach’s design allows the device to be used at 90-degree angles, and motorizes it for added ease of use.
Influenced by growth momentum from increasing automotive market shipments and the rising penetration rate of LED lighting, global automotive LED market value is estimated to be valued at US$3.51 billion in 2021, a 31.8% YoY growth rate. This demonstrates that LED headlights and automotive display LED products remain the main driving force for growth in the automotive LED market.
Although the automotive semiconductor shortage has led to manufacturing bottlenecks among some car manufacturers, since car manufacturers have asked LED producers to continue production, the purchase order status of major automotive LED manufacturers will not be affected before the end of 2021. Among the 2021 revenue rankings of automotive LED manufacturers, the top three companies remain ams-OSRAM, Nichia, and Lumileds. These three account for a combined market share of as much as 71.7%.
In terms of automotive lighting, ams-OSRAM has leveraged stable product quality, excellent lighting efficiency, and cost performance to make it the supplier of choice for the world’s high-end cars and new energy vehicles, including high-flying Tesla among its customers. This year, ams-OSRAM’s automotive LED revenue grew rapidly and has an opportunity to reach US$1.304 billion by year’s end for an annual growth rate of approximately 40.9%. Samsung LED’s PixCell LED has also been successfully integrated into the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, boosting its automotive LED revenue growth to as much as US$121 million with market share expected to increase to 3.4%.
A new lamp Solar Echo Lighting intends to improve indoor lighting in a stylish manner. The lamp has a unique flower design, where its petals, which are made from cork, open up at different times throughout the day. In this way, it mimics how the sun moves throughout the sky while lighting the day. It’s a physical echo of the sun.
A new Hyundai Grandeur is in the works and it will look quite a lot different than the outgoing model.
The exterior design of this concept was heavily based on the original Grandeur, but updated with things like LED lights.
Most notably, it appears as though the headlights and taillights of the new Grandeur could have pixel-style LEDs, in a similar vein to the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and other forthcoming Ioniq models.
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Visa Lighting is to unveil its new LED drum pendant light, Riff, which takes a popular luminaire shape and creates a fresh modern interpretation.
“We wanted to create a fixture with depth, to draw attention to the contoured inner reflector," says Visa Lighting Senior Industrial Designer Hans Nielson.
The simple, drum silhouette is created with thin, artfully-rolled aluminum. Riff hangs from the ceiling at the end of a thin power cable, and the wide underside lets a bright and even light layer emanate out, illuminating the space below with ease.
Riff's LED diffuser was optimized to reduce glare and create the most comfortable light.
While addressable LED strips are all the rage, Mike from mikeselectricstuff has been working on an installation using the more basic two-wire strips that are simply controlled via PWM dimming. He’s recently figured out a tidy way to send sensor signals down these strips without adding any additional cabling.
KPR is to announce the launch of UVC based disinfection solutions for automotive applications.
LED Autolamps launched in 2002 and offers a focused portfolio of reliable aftermarket LED products that delivers maximum customer value. While the Truck-Lite brand has been sold in Australia for over three decades, Truck-Lite and LED Autolamps each serve the market differently, making LED Autolamps a natural complement to the Truck-Lite brand that serves Clarience Technologies well.
Bridgelux, a developer and manufacturer of innovative LED solutions, announces the results of a study the firm commissioned for its innovative full spectrum product family, Thrive.
The goal of the study was to ascertain whether top designers would recognize a difference between Thrive and 90 CRI products and find out which light source looked more natural based on their expert opinion.
The study utilized a complement of Thrive and 90+ CRI LEDs at three popular color temperatures: 2700K, 3000K and 4000K. The light sources were placed inside a box and attached to a switch.
Common articles in different colors and finishes along with a standard Color Chart were placed under the LEDs inside the box. Designers were able to switch back and forth in each CCT to discern any differences. Their comments were recorded over a series of 18 separate tests.
Across this wide range of objects, Thrive was preferred 88% of the time compared to 8% for 90 CRI and 4% undecided. Enthusiastic response to Thrive were typical with one lighting designer claiming 'It felt like sunlight coming through the window.”'
Thrive uses a broad-blue chip technology and special phosphor blend to fill in the common Cyan gap that plagues most LED solutions. The technology is at the heart of Sylvania’s TruWave technology for their popular Nature™ Lamp series of products. Because of Thrive’s full-spectrum approach, Thrive is more able to match the spectrum of the sun across all color temperatures. Benefits of the natural spectrum of the sun using Thrive include reduced eye strain, less fragmented sleep and a higher sense of emotional well-being.
