New rules flip switch on household light bulbs

Blue-light emitting diodes or LEDs that helped UCSB faculty member Shuji Nakamura win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 are now a must have.

August first is the beginning of an incandescent light bulb ban with some U.S. Dept. of Energy exceptions. Stores includes Ace Hardware in Santa Barbara are getting questions about the banning of incandescent bulbs.