The Future of Light Is the LED
Brett Sharenow is presiding over the Pepsi Challenge of lightbulbs. It's a liquid-cooled bulb, as radically different from Edison's invention as anything that's ever been screwed into a standard socket and, Sharenow hopes, the next big thing in the $30 billion lighting industry. The Future of Light Is the LED by Dan Koeppel Subscribe: Wired Features PodcastThis is the last Lightfair before new regulations governing lightbulb efficiency begin to take effect in the US in January, and there's a real sense of history and urgency on the show floor. The industry is banking on LED lighting as the way forward, and it's virtually the only bulb technology on display: There is barely a single incandescent or sickly compact fluorescent to be seen. Beyond the very real technical issues—cooling, costs, light color—there's the public's lingering distaste for compact fluorescent lamps, which failed miserably in their projected role as bulb of the future.
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