Most lamps are built pretty much the same way. Quarter-inch threaded tubing travels from the base of the light socket to the bottom of the lamp. The tubing screws into the socket at the top end of the ...

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The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires most screw-in lightbulbs to use at least 27 percent less energy by 2014. CFLs, LEDs, and some halogen bulbs, a type of incandescent, meet that ...

The convenience and ease of apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze—along with GPS devices and built-in navigation systems—have made the once-ubiquitous folding paper maps largely a relic of the ...

If a lightbulb dies in a hard-to-reach place, it can be a pain to replace. Fetching a ladder and climbing all the way up to reach the ceiling is annoying. What if there was a better way? Turns out ...

Power Integrations is offering a reference design kit (RDK-131) for very small power supplies that fit inside the LED lightbulb socket, and also ensure that their incandescent-replacement LED ...